Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell

Our first full length play in a long, long while traces the life and times of one of the most interesting personalities from 60s and 70s' London.

Jeffrey Bernard wrote the column 'Low Life' for The Spectator magazine, before he was fired that is. He was once approached to write his autobiography, and true to form, he put out an ad asking if anyone could remember what he was doing between 1960 and 1974. Fortunately for him, his friend and cohort Keith Waterhouse remembered enough to pen this play on the great Bohemian who frequented Soho back in the day.

Peppered with anecdotes and characters from his life, the play is at once hilarious and poignant, harking back to a time that was stubbornly not-PC. Often when he couldn’t submit his article before the deadline and no substitute was readily available, his long-suffering magazine would print the one-line apology, ‘Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell’.

 As the poet Elizabeth Smart put it:

"Wilde would have smiled
and been beguiled
and bright enough to know
that you had a better
Muse in tow
than he."

Do join us for this hilarious and heady Journey with JB on 9, 10, 11 August 7:30 p.m. at The Junction, Al Serkal Avenue. Tickets available on Platinumlist and at the venue.

 

Third Half Theatre presents…  

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell
Writer: Keith Waterhouse
Director: Sanjeev Dixit
Cast:Toby Masson, Sarah Potter, Ramya Bala, Greg Lunn, Assyl Yacine

"From that point on, I was never to look... forward."