Joan Rivers Adds Extra Performances To Solo Show At Edinburgh Before UK Run

 After selling all 5,378 tickets for her Edinburgh Fringe acting debut in the self-penned autobiographical play, 'Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress', US comedy icon Joan Rivers is to add an extra 4 performances on August 16, 17, 20 & 25.

A four-handed, part-confession, part-performance comedy-drama based on Joan's larger-than-life rollercoaster life, 'Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress' quite movingly, reveals the woman behind the public face that the public have never seen before. It's fierce, funny and unforgettable...

Set in Joan's dressing room backstage at the annual Oscars ceremony, Joan is preparing for one of her legendary TV catwalk commentaries on the fashion hits and disasters at Hollywood's biggest night of the year. But all is not well... her dressing room  is B, not A!!; her complimentary cheese is puny, not plentiful; and her producer is the bigwig's nephew, not the bigwig!

The tension and drama are the catalyst for an introspective look at aging, going through life's ups and downs and being a woman in Hollywood. After Joan's five amazing decades in showbusiness, the topics fly by - some familiar, some not. The famous breakup with Johnny Carson is there, her husband's suicide, the feuds and firings, several backstabbings, sidesteps and full frontal calamities.

You may think you've heard it all before, but you'd be wrong...

 'Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress By a Life in Progress'  will be the premiere production at the 400-seat newly refurbished and re-named West End theatre Leicester Square Theatre (formerly The Venue) from August 29 to September 17, before embarking on a Broadway season in 2009.

The London press night is Thursday September 4 at 7.00pm

Photo Credit Peter James Zielinski

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