Ruby Wax and Clive Tulloh review clips from their TV shows and tell scandalous stories on stage.
Ruby Wax is at the Devonshire Park Theatre on Saturday 31 October, with Clive Tulloh joining her on stage. The show is called Absolutely Famous, and it's built around the TV interview shows that made her a household name: Ruby Wax Meets and Full Wax. The two of them will be running through clips from those series and telling the scandalous stories that went on behind the scenes.
If you've only ever known her as a comedian, there's a fair bit more to the story. Wax started out in the British alternative comedy scene of the 1980s, and those interview shows were where she really built her following. But over the last decade or so, she's shifted her focus toward mental health. She's campaigned for awareness, spoken at Downing Street to raise money for neuroscience research, and was awarded an OBE for her services to mental health in 2015. In 2013, she earned a Masters Degree in Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy from Oxford University, which she turned into the Sunday Times number one bestsellers Sane New World: Taming the Mind and A Mindfulness Guide for the Frazzled. Since then, she's become a leading speaker on the subject, addressing the Home Office, MI5, Apple, Goldman Sachs, Google, and the House of Lords. Stephen Fry once called her 'a ruby beyond price'.
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As for the show itself, the reviews suggest it sits somewhere between the two sides of her career. The Times called it 'deeply thoughtful and resolutely frothy', The Telegraph described it as 'fascinating', and Entertainment Focus called it 'hilarious'. It's a night of clips and stories from the early days, with Tulloh there to help her through it. The show starts at 7:30pm at the Devonshire Park Theatre in Eastbourne on Saturday 31 October.
