Laughter Is The Best Medicine 12+13 Jan Howerd's End With Mark Farrelly & Simon Cartwright

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Wed 12 & Thur 13th Jan

8PM DOORS 7PM Followed by post show talk

Tickets ?16.85 online at QR code or www.hillstationcafe.co.uk

?16 tickets also available at the venue.

The Hill Station Community Cafe, Kitto Road, SE14 5TW

Please Note: In compliance with guidelines, you will be required to give evidence of a NHS COVID Pass or PCR lateral flow test within 48hrs of the event and request that unless you are exempt, you wear that a face covering until the post show talk.

Written by Mark Farrelly

?Remember the last time someone kissed you and meant it??

Though Frankie Howerd was and still is ?one of Britain?s best-loved comedians?, he was in truth a radical, whose courage and innovation as a performer have too often been obscured by cosy nostalgia. The first stand-up to dispense with conventional punchlines and slick patter, instead he crafted stumbling, surreal streams of insecurity, based on his sense of inadequacy, disappointment and sheer unsuitability to the very job of being a comedian. In his refusal to ?do? comedy like everyone else had done, he predated fellow non-conformists such as The Goons, Python and Eddie Izzard.

Howerd?s End is a two-hander exploring both the development of Frankie?s comedy, and the clandestine union which made it all possible: his extraordinary forty-year relationship with his lover, friend and anchor Dennis Heymer, whose existence was strictly guarded from the public in Frankie?s lifetime. More than simply a tribute show about a comedian who outlasted them all, Howerd?s End is also a piercingly honest love story about a relationship that tried to defy every odd ? including death.

?I knew Dennis, and I wrote for Frankie ? and this play is brilliant? ? Barry Cryer