Richard Tyrone Jones's BIG HEART

Contact: info@upstairsatthreeandten.co.uk

How do you fight back when your own heart tries to kill you?

Award winning poet’s hit Edinburgh show UK tour 2012/3, Albany, London 10 October

In 2010, for his thirtieth birthday Richard Tyrone Jones, the healthy, gym-going ‘Ringmaster of Spoken Word’ (****ThreeWeeks) got a rather unexpected present. Heart failure.

‘An engrossing tale with rousing poetry’ ****Fringe Biscuit

Having battled back from the brink of death to (almost) full-health and armed with a pen and a pacemaker, he has written a show about his experiences, which he describes as 'a unique prescription of cardiomyopoetry, animation and anecdosage.'

‘A life affirming show from a charismatic and likeable performer’ ****The Skinny

Thanks to the support of The Wellcome Trust, Richard Tyrone Jones’s Big Heart performed in a critically acclaimed run at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe and embarks on a UK tour Autumn/Winter 2012/3. Richard Tyrone Jones received a Three Weeks Editor’s Award in August 2012 in recognition of his successes in ‘pushing forward performance poetry and his own exciting shows’.

‘A refreshing innovation in the spoken word scene’ ****Broadway Baby

Richard Tyrone Jones’s Big Heart expands on the lurid details of near-near death from dilated cardiomyopathy (heart failure), his convoluted convalescence and living his everyday life with a condition that will almost certainly kill him. Here is truly a show for anyone who ever had a heart. Or failure. Many artists consider their show to be as important as life and death, this one literally is.

‘Raw, at times graphic and very funny’ BBC Ouch!

Richard Tyrone Jones is a poet and writer, founder of spoken word clubnight Utter! celebrating its 10th birthday in 2012 and Director of Spoken Word for the PBH Free Fringe. Germline, his first book of stories, poems and art was published by Vintage Poison Press in 2009. His new book Big Heart (& other sickness’) has just been published, contact Steve Forster for review copies.

‘Fascinating, sobering, hilarious, and ultimately uplifting’ New Scientist

Richard Tyrone Jones’ BIG HEART is supported by The Wellcome Trust, Apples & Snakes, The British Heart Foundation and the Cardiomyopathy Association. Full information and tour dates at www.richardtyronejones.com

Each tour date will also feature local spoken word artists.

‘Masterfully manages the listeners' mood as it oscillates between laughter and despair. Highly recommended’ ****Fringe Guru

Entry: £7.50, £6

Time: 7:30pm