Roll up, Roll Up for another Penny Gaff with your delightful host, Mr Jonny Fluffypunk, Stand-up poet. Sit-up storyteller. Give-up guitarist. Armed with her Casio keyboard and ukulele, Liz Bentley has has had three successful Edinburgh shows and has been featured at events such as Ledbury Poetry Festival, London Literature Festival at Southbank and Alternative Village Fete, National Theatre. Through her experiences of mental health and multiple sclerosis, she strives to smash the apartheid between disability and mainstream arts. '£500 a line and other poems' (the title of her latest book) was a tongue-in-cheek response to the pressure of winning a £5000 writing commission from Shape (disability arts) as part of the Cultural Olympiad. Her show CBT, Crash Bash Trash (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy – Can Tick Box/Can’t Tick Box) toured the UK in 2011. Her latest show is AAA Rating (Age Anxiety and Alzheimers). 'A peculiar cross between Tracey Emin and Josie Long' (The Scotsman), 'Truly the most indefinable act I have ever seen. I wouldn't want to have missed it' (Three Weeks), 'Bentley is beguiling. Such an exhilarating experience' (Chortle).
More to be confirmed plus films, competitions and prizes!
| Advance Tickets | £8.50 |