A new comedy by Stewart Lee with Simon Munnery as Queen Elizabeth I and Miles Jupp as Sir Walter Raleigh, directed by Owen Lewis.Raleigh introduces Elizabeth, the wittiest, wisest and most unforgiving of English Queens.
Walter is in love with Elizabeth, the spiritual embodiment of England. But will he end up in her bed, or will he lose his head?Potatoes, tobacco, Elizabethan dance, cross-dressing, xenophobia and laughs galore from the team behind last year’s hit Johnson and Boswell:
Late But Live.At the Edinburgh Festival, 31st July to 25th August (not 13 August) Underbelly, 10.35pm - 11.35pm
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"Come and witness the epic story of the creation of man and machines.
But be warned, you’re being monitored and consciously or unconsciously you could alter the history of evolution.
In this race between programming and free will, magic and technology, who is actually in control? You or the Robots?"
Doctor Johnson is one of England’s greatest literary figures: wit, essayist, biographer, lexicographer, legendary curmudgeon and coffee house philosopher.
In 1773 he was enticed by his Scottish friend James Boswell to accompany him on a tour through the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. Both published books based on the journey. Johnson described his experience of Scotland. Boswell described Scotland's experience of Johnson.
Late But Live gives the two billious bores the chance to try and flog their travel guides to a new audience, 230 years after they made their journey.
Boswell hosts a book launch, interviewing Johnson, and discussing Scotland ancient and modern. Haggis is eaten. Pipes are played. Sacred highland cattle are ritually slaughtered. And Boswell finds that it is sometimes dangerous to meet your heroes.
