Billing: Edge Street Live & SNG Live present Henry Normal – The Slide Show Doors 19:00 Show 20:00 Photo credit: Richard Davis www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002dmns A multi-MEdia spectacular with the emphasis on the ‘me’. This show celebrates my meteoric rise to z celebrity status together with my joyous and inevitable slide into physical and mental decline. Poetry, photos, jokes, music, dance, song, circus skills, costume changes, props and stories, exploring where I went wrong in life and lessons you can learn from my mistakes. Socrates once said ‘A life unexamined is not worth living’ well this show sets out to prove that a life examined can be just as futile A live performed memoir with cautionary verse from poet, film and Tv producer/writer Henry Normal An adventure into understanding the human condition from the inside. Like Fantastic Voyage but with the tiny submarine injected into your mind 2 sets x 45 mins each with a 20 min interval in between. Books for sale after the show. “Succinct, heartrending and peppered with gentle punchlines” Hannah Verdier, The Guardian “Shove up National Treasures. We need to make room for Henry Normal” Simon O’Hagan – Radio Times “the Alan Bennett of poetry” The Scotsman “Dovetails bittersweet poetry with a sublimely observant wit” The Guardian “A mixture of the absurd and downright wacky…a gentle giant of stand-up poetry” The List “The poetry itself is stuff of proper substance, marrying the suburban beauty of Beatles ballads with the blunt candour of the kitchen sink” The Guardian “Witty and uncannily accurate with his observations” – The Stage “Distinctly funny” – Time Out