Ruby Wax - Losing It!
From: Wednesday, 31st August 2011
To: Saturday, 1 October 2011
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Following two sell-out runs at the Menier Chocolate Factory in February and June, Ruby Wax transfers her show Ruby Wax Losing It, which tackles her own battle with depression, to the Duchess Theatre for a limited run.
Ruby Wax - Losing It is a darkly comic show, co-written and performed with singer-songwriter Judith Owen.Ruby Wax discusses the toxins of our time - envy, fame, television, the insatiable drive to win, getting rich, getting the perfect body, marriage, kids, career and, above all, staying busy while looking like you're having a nice day.
Ruby Wax Losing It tackles the big stigma around mental illness, which affects one in four of the population at some time in their lives, with Judith Owen’s music providing the emotional soundtrack to Wax's words. The production is directed by Thea Sharrock.
Ruby Wax has worked with the BBC for over 25 years, during which time she has fronted documentaries, comedies and interview shows. Having studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, her early acting career included a five-year stint in the RSC from 1978. Her non-stage credits include script editing for the BBC sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, and work as a travel writer and journalist.
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Our Review:
Terri Paddock - 2 September 2011
I’ve never had an evening in the theatre quite like Ruby Wax’s Losing It. It’s a cross between Ally McBeal, a Whatsonstage.com Outing (every night) and a group therapy session – oh, and stand-up comedy, of course.
As in the American TV show, in which singer-songwriter Vonda Shepherd found her own fame providing the soundtrack to Calista Flockhart’s title character’s life, Wax is accompanied on stage by her friend and fellow medicated depressive Judith Owen on the piano, Owen’s soulful song snippets poignantly underscoring the emotional angst of Wax’s musings on the scourges of modern life – envy, busyness, fame-seeking – and her own downward spiral into mental illness.
As in a Whatsonstage.com Outing, the performance is followed by an illuminating Q&A – in fact, it comprises the entire, post-interval second act. And as in a group therapy session, experiences, advice and goodw...
Cast
Ruby Wax
Judith Owen (music)
Creative
David Babani (Producer)
Tom Siracusa (Producer)
Thelma Holt (in association with Nica Burns and Max Weitzenhoffer) (Producer)
Thea Sharrock (Director)
Gareth Owen (Sound)
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