John Hegley
Friday January 7
The Black Box, 8.00pm
Tickets £8.00
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John Hegley was born in 1953 in Newington Green, and moved to
Luton at an early age. After leaving school he worked as a bus
conductor and social security clerk, until he went to Bradford
University, eking out his grant by working as a nurse in a local
mental hospital.
He has worked with two children’s theatre groups, Interaction and
Soapbox, and began his highly successful career at the notoriously
tough Comedy Store in 1980.
His first notable media exposure was the John Peel Sessions (Radio
One) with Popticiansin 1983/4, with songs about spectacles and the
misery of human existence.
After publishing Glad to Wear Glasses in 1990 another six titles
followed filled with verse, prose, drawings, drama and photographs
of potatoes, and the CD/Cassette Saint and Blurry.
In 2000, John received an honorary Arts Doctorate from Luton
University and had his most notable live engagement in a women’s
prison, Medellin, Columbia.
“..a masterful display of the art of comedy and poetry…This is a
seamless and perfectly timed show.” Sunday Times