Part of Stamford Verse Festival
Later Life Letter tells the story of Luke Wright’s adoption – the life he leads, and the one he might have done. What’s it like to stumble across your birth mother on Facebook? How do you honour the parents who have raised you while satisfying a curiosity about where you came from? Is it telling that you married a social worker?
Wright navigates his audience through a warm and honest hour of poems and stand-up with the wit, pathos, and silliness that has made him one of the most popular live poets in England.
This is a frank account of what it means to be someone’s child told by a performer who really knows what he’s doing. Expect raucous laughter, tear-stained cheeks, and a little smattering of drum n bass.
“A streetwise panache and a sardonic comic verve to rival Stewart Lee.” 5 STARS Telegraph
“Honesty, humour, ire and wonder. He is at the peak of his powers.” 5 STARS The Stage
“His poems shoot arrows through the heart, or leave you dazzled by their virtuosity” 5 STARS List

Important Information
Part of Stamford Verse Festival
Venue: Stamford Arts Centre, Theatre
Tickets: £15 standard
Running Time: 1 hour
Suitable for ages 14+
This is a programmed event
Sat 2 May
Part of Stamford Verse Festival Join poet Roger McGough as he performs poems fr...
Sat 2 May
Part of Stamford Verse Festival The Further Adventures of Monsieur Robinet: Joh...
Sat 2 May
Part of Stamford Verse Festival Welcome to history and poetry in motion! Join Stamford Sights and Secrets Tou...
Thurs 19 Mar
Historian and textile scholar, Dr Dorothy Armstrong, tells the stories of the so...
Thurs 18 - Fri 19 Jun
Lamphouse Theatre Company are back after multiple sold out shows! What do you get if you cross Jane Austen’s...
Sat 11 Apr
Regarded as one of the finest interpreters of Classical and Romantic repertoire, Imogen Cooper is internationa...
Fri 1 May
Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine’s new album Things Found in Books is an album of songs written in response to a...
Fri 6 Feb
Vincent died in 1890, John died in 1980, both of gunshot wounds to the chest. But imagine what might have happ...