Performance Poet Luke Wright makes his theatre debut with a story of friendship, class + a really bad idea for a festival.

Luke Wright makes his theatre debut with a story of friendship, class and a really bad idea for a festival.

Nick has fallen out of love with London and his life as a journalist. Forced to review the launch of Urbania, a new inner-city festival, he starts to remember his shattered friendship with Johnny Bevan, the whip-smart, mercurial kid from an Essex council estate. Back at uni Johnny saved Nick from living his father’s life. Twenty years later, can he save him all over again?

Written and performed in visceral, punchy verse by Luke Wright, with a score by Ian Catskilken from Art Brut, What I Learned From Johnny Bevan is a breath-taking poetic monologue unlike anything you’ve seen before.

On previous work by Luke Wright:

“Visceral, poignant and riotously funny.” The Scotsman

“Some of the funniest and most incisive writing you’ll see on the Fringe, regardless of category” Exeunt

VENUE ADDRESS:

Bethnal Green Working Men's Club

42-46 Pollard Row

London

E2 6NB