“Then I was approached by an old friend..”
In 2001, after over a decade in the business, Stewart Lee quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a loss-making musical, Jerry Springer: The Opera. Nine years later, How I Escaped My Certain Fate details his return to live performance, and the journey that took him from an early retirement to his position as the most critically acclaimed stand-up in Britain, the winner of BAFTAs and British Comedy Awards, and of course his involvement with Bridget Nicholls’ insect festival.
“Then I was approached by an old friend, Bridget Nicholls, an eco-activist with pirate blood who was organising an entomology-based arts event called Pestival at Barnes Wetlands Centre that May. Would I do the opening-night cabaret in some capacity?” Stewart Lee, How I Escaped My Certain Fate
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