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Theatre and Performance

Rowan McCabe: Hard Knocks + Special Guest

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Quick summary

Price
£10 / £8 (conc) / £6 (students)
Audience type
16+
Running time
1 hour 20 minutes

Event description

Join Rowan for a collection of all new material that lifts the lid on some of the most funny and challenging moments of this unconventional career path.

Rowan McCabe likes making a nuisance of himself with poetry. Over the past 10 years he’s been poet in residence in a pizza takeaway, in William Wordsworth’s childhood home and, once, on a miniature steam train. He’s also the world’s first Door-to-Door Poet and in 2019 he travelled across England, knocking on strangers’ doors and writing bespoke verses for them, for free, on any subject of their choosing. It’s a project that’s been featured in the Guardian and on BBC Breakfast.

Expect tales of mistaken identity, odes to self-care, and ruminations on time travelling public officials, all delivered with Rowan’s trademark warmth and wit.

“Ingenious”
BBC Radio Scotland

“Absolutely riveting”
Attila the Stockbroker

“McCabe is perfect as a storyteller”
Narc Magazine