Comedy
It’s Better to Lie than to Tell the Truth and End up Alone in a Ditch Crying
- Artists
- Ellen Waddell
Performer and comedian Ellen Waddell (Jean-Luc Picard and Me) brings an advance showcase of her Edinburgh Fringe show to the Wardrobe Theatre.
In her new one-woman show, the former rock star and acclaimed performer tackles the necessity of lying in life, love, friendship – and when applying for administrative jobs at truck logistics companies.
The no-holds-barred confessional comedy show follows Ellen, a former liar, as she travels back in time to the worst year of her life: 2012. It was a year she left her job as a bona-fide rock star to move back in with her mum. Despite being jobless, sad, and devastatingly single, Ellen found she couldn’t stop lying to everyone she met about how fantastic her life was.
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In a series of re-enactments, Ellen relives some of the biggest lies she told that year, to her friends, family and potential lovers, before finally asking the ultimate question: just what is so scary about telling the truth?
With the aid of a chair, Ellen Waddell re-lives the conversations she had during this fallow year, as she lied on dates, on lunches with super-successful friends, and during job interviews for very important and lucrative administrative positions. As each lie spirals out of control, Ellen digs deeper into the mess to find out what turned her into such a fibber in the first place – before questioning whether being honest about failure is simply not in our nature.
Ellen Waddell is a writer, director, comedian and performance artist. During her time as a rock star playing bass for indie-pop band Los Campesinos! she released four albums, toured the world, and performed on The Late Show with David Letterman.
Ellen’s first one-person show Jean-Luc Picard and Me premiered in 2014, selling out the Wardrobe and going on to complete successful sell-out runs in London, the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe, and Bristol again. Ellen regularly performs stand-up comedy and storytelling in Bristol and had a residency at The Glee Club in Cardiff.
8pm, £10. For more info and to book tickets, visit thewardrobetheatre.com/livetheatre/better-lie-tell-truth-end-alone-ditch-crying
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