Will Penswick, The World's Worst Performance Poet, Presents 'Dank Verse'

Sex, death, Christianity, Tim Henman, pigeons, divorce, Nazism, allergies, casseroles; no topic is too out there for Will Penswick. Brought to you by one of the most enigmatic figures in modern literature, Dank Verse is a mixture of shocking (in both senses of the word; it's awful) spoken word poetry, audience interaction and Penswick's views on life, love and more often than not, himself. Voice of a generation? Umm...

Imagine the worst poetry you've ever heard. Then multiply that by 1000 and give it to an artist who believes it's brilliant. Dank Verse asks you to forget everything you've ever known about art as Will Penswick tries to present an hour of his "best loved" and "most celebrated" work. A maverick, a renegade and a terrible flirt, Penswick's canon demands attention. Now that he's finally got it who knows what he'll read. Laugh with him, laugh at him but either way...you're very welcome.

Dank Verse is the result of Will playing around with silly poems that he has been writing since graduating from Trinity College, Dublin and performing around the London comedy scene. Will's never performed the same set twice and has built up a bank of truly awful poems for his debut comedy hour at Etcetera Theatre. After this, Penswick will continue onto the Brighton Fringe and Edinburgh.

StraightUp Productions is a new theatre company comprising Will Dalrymple, Mark Bittlestone and Will Penswick. Our first two productions: Pity Laughs: A Tale of Two Gays and The Oppression Olympics both played at the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe. Their first London theatrical production, Will Dalrymple's Tristram Shandy: Live at London! had a sold-out run at Barnes' OSO Arts Theatre in November 2017 and received overwhelmingly positive reviews from LondonTheatre1 and A Younger Theatre. StraightUp are bringing Dank Verse, Pity Laughs, Man to Man and Space Doctor to Brighton and Edinburgh this year.

Photo Credit: Milo Jerome Robinson

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