Stand-up show by 92-year-old Alex Lowe, the self-styled resident lifestyle coach and former star of Steve Wright's Radio 2 show, on his debut stand-up tour.
Barry From Watford brings Shooting From The New Hip to the New Theatre Royal on Thursday 29 October, his debut stand-up tour. He's 92, which makes the 'debut' part of that a bit of a joke in itself.
The show is built around his home Super 7 Cine archive films, from the Harold Baim Collection, and it uses them to take the audience back to the holidays and pastimes of a British yesteryear. He talks about growing up in the satellite town of Watford since 1950, and about his wife Margaret, his daughter Michelle and his son Dave. There's his record collection, too, and a romantic liaison in the early 1960s that nearly cost him his marriage. He's billed the set as fierce one-liners and satire.
Behind the character is Alex Lowe, and Barry has a bit of a history on the radio: he was a regular on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show for ten years. The whole thing is presented as the self-styled resident lifestyle coach and local legend finally taking his act on the road, so the comedy comes as much from the persona as from the stories.
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It's at the New Theatre Royal in Lincoln on Thursday 29 October, starting at 7:30 pm. Tickets are £28.
