From Italy, winner of the European Comedy Award and a sold-out hit at last year's Festival, this virtuoso show was inspired by French novelist Raymond Queneau's Omnibus-Exercises of Style, in which one short story is re-told in many ways. In sixty increasingly hilarious minutes, actor/mime Paolo Nani goes through the routine of writing a letter in a succession of different characterisations and styles. Each self-contained episode is filled with artistry and visual humour.
There is a sense of being trapped in an endless loop where
life is always the same yet never the same and increasingly hysterical.... bubbling
with inventive comedy. Watch out for future reappearances of Paolo Nani's
The Letter
THE TIMES
Runs approx. 60 minutes
Purcell
Room London Thur 20 - Sun 23 Jan @ 8pm
Box Office 020 7960 4242 £10 (£8 concs) online booking
www.sbc.org.uk
THE 2000 TOUR OF PAULO NANI
High Wycombe, Swan Tue 18 Jan 8pm 01494 512 000
Croydon, Clocktower Wed 19 Jan 8pm 020 8253 1030
Oundle, Stahl Theatre Wed 26 Jan 01832 273 930
Brentford, Watermans Arts Centre Thu 27 Jan 7.45pm 020 8568 1176