If you’ve always been of the opinion that you and your mates’ WhatsApp banter is solid comedy gold and a lot funnier than the sort of nonsense you see on TV/the stage/a comedy club, then boy do we have the night for you.
‘The Joy of Text’ is a fundraiser for the Ambassador Theatre Group Playwright’s Prize, an award for new plays sponsored by Ambassador Theatre Group and Time Out.
Directed by top-notch stage and screen director Josie Rourke, the night will feature a glittering array of actors performing a script crafted from text-message-conversation screenshots sent in by you, the public, to us, Time Out. So far performers Aki Omoshaybi, Amanda Holden, Catherine Tate, Denise Gough, Dougray Scott, Indira Varma, Iwan Rheon, Tamsin Greig, Nicholas Pinnock, Pearl Mackie, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Rupert Evans, Robert Bathurst, Sally Phillips and Tracy Ann Oberman are signed up, with more due to be announced.
The one-off night will run at the Savoy Theatre on April 25, with tickets on sale here and a special discount for Time Out readers – just enter TimeOutJoy to get 10 percent off.
Moreover, you could have your funny/excruciating/whatever text messages appear in the show: to submit them for consideration, just email a screenshot to [??].
It’s a fun way to support the playwrights of the future, by (briefly) making yourself a playwright of the present, and the night should be a hoot.
‘The Joy of Text’ is at the Savoy Theatre on Apr 25. Buy tickets here.
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