Stand-up show in which Richard Ayoade shares reflections from his book 'Afterthoughts, or Some Pistachios Won't Open: Wisdom for the Unreflective'.
Richard Ayoade is coming to Salisbury City Hall on Friday 13 November, with his show Afterthoughts running from 19:30 to 21:30 and doors opening at 18:30. It's a comedy evening built around his latest book, Afterthoughts, or Some Pistachios Won't Open: Wisdom for the Unreflective, which contains more than 500 notions. He's the subject of the night, and the show is an evening of reflections in which he offers his brand of wisdom to the audience.
Most of us will recognise him from The IT Crowd, or from his films Submarine and The Double. He's also hosted Travel Man and The Crystal Maze, and lent his nasal voice to animated films like The Boxtrolls, Early Man, Soul and The Bad Guys. He's perhaps best known as the photographer in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, the one who delivers the line 'Please, Mer Sellers, can I get a shot of you and your mum?'.
Beyond the acting and presenting, he's a BAFTA winner and a polymath — actor, comedian, director and writer — and this show draws on the writing side of things. The whole thing is built from those 500 notions in the book, so it's less a stand-up set in the traditional sense and more a night of his particular way of looking at things. If you've read the book, it'll be a chance to hear those ideas worked out on stage; if you haven't, it's a good place to start.
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One practical thing to keep in mind: all under-18s must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, with a maximum ratio of one adult to four children. The show runs from 19:30 to 21:30 at Salisbury City Hall on Malthouse Lane, SP2 7TU, with doors opening at 18:30.
