Celebrated poet and musician John Hegley brings his latest award-winning show Biscuit of Destiny to Waterside in Sale on Friday 10 March.
John introduces a clutch of new verses, a few older favourites and a cardboard camel with a moving jaw. It includes seven drawings of elephants, myths, discos, daleks, optional community singing and the search for a sense of self-worth. The show won a ‘Lustrum Award’ at the Edinburgh Fringe 2022 and delves into the more eccentric side of Romantic Poet John Keats, alongside everyday goings-on in the Hegley homes of now and yesteryear.
John Hegley has a cult following, having toured nationally and internationally for the past 40 years, and regularly appearing on BBC Radio. John was born in Newington Green, Islington, North London and now lives in the neighbouring borough of Hackney.
With his band The Popticians, he featured on the John Peel sessions in the 1980s, hosted the Border TV poetry series Word of Mouth, and was a Perrier Comedy Award nominee.
He has presented three series of Hearing with Hegley on BBC Radio 4, and in 2010 he presented Warning, May Contain Nuts, challenging stigmas around mental illness. He has been the Keats House poet in residence, and in 2019 Hegley toured art galleries in England with Putting You in the Picture; working with children to explore and respond to artworks with drawing and writing.
John Hegley: Biscuit of Destiny
Fri 10 Mar 19:30 £16 / £8
