-Delightful... the wit starts flowing from the first scene.- - Telegraph -A ripely entertaining portrait of an eccentric, forgotten celebrity and the scandalous allure of the stage.- - Evening Standard Premiered at Hampstead Theatre in September 2015, in a production directed by Richard Eyre and featuring Simon Russell Beale as Foote.
A riotously funny play exploring our obsession with celebrities, based on Ian Kelly's award-winning biography of the same name. In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist, and dangerous...
-Delightful... the wit starts flowing from the first scene.- - Telegraph -A ripely entertaining portrait of an eccentric, forgotten celebri...