Victoria Wood: Let's Do It! at the Watershed in Bristol on Wednesday 18 January 2017
Posted on: 06 Jan 2017Slapstick 2017 will pay tribute to comedy legend Victoria Wood in a special event at the Watershed in Bristol on Wednesday 18 January 2017. Victoria Wood: Let's Do It! will be a commemoration and celebration of the comedienne, actress, singer and songwriter, screenwriter and director, who sadly passed away in April last year.
Wood first came to public attention when she won the talent show New Faces in 1973 and went on to become a true comedy icon and national treasure, garnering plaudits, accolades and a legion of fans for her work on shows such as Wood and Walters, Victoria Wood As Seen On TV and Dinnerladies.
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Wood was an avid supporter of the Slapstick Festival, and Festival of Ideas' Andrew Kelly will present a panel discussion which will look at her extraordinary contribution to stand-up, writing and comedy performance. He'll be joined by comedians Pippa Evans and Lucy Porter as well as Bristol University's Comedy and Theatre Historian, Louise Wingrove.
The event will run from 5.40pm to 7.10pm, and the official Facebook event page is here. You can also find out more about Slapstick 2017, which will see the annual mirth-making giggle-fest host a chortle-worthy 5-day programme of events from 18-22 January 2017, here www.slapstick.org.uk
And to get you in the mood, so to speak, here's the classic Victoria Wood song from which the event has taken its name:
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Jamie is a writer, blogger, journalist, critic, film fan, soundtrack nerd and all-round Bristolian good egg. He loves the music of Philip Glass, the art of Salvador Dali, the writings of Charles Bukowksi and Hunter S Thompson, the irreverence of Harry Hill, and the timeless, straw-chomping exuberance of The Wurzels. You can sometimes find him railing against a surging tide of passing cyclists, or gorging himself senseless on the Oriental delights of a Cosmos all-you-can-eat buffet.
