From Monty Python legend Eric Idle comes this wicked and enthralling comedy
Set during the glorious days of the Bush Empire before they finally invaded and killed irony, The Writer's Cut follows Stanley Hay, a joke writer. He has a girlfriend, a writing partner and a career going nowhere in particular. Wisecracking, ambitious and horny, Stanley decides that he is going to change that by writing a novel. This is where things start to spiral out of control.
Caught up in the excitement Stanley falsely confesses that the novel will be a kiss-and-tell (a kiss and sell?) featuring Hollywood's most famous and glamorous actresses. Before long expectations are going through the roof, Stanley is a celebrity in his own right and he's living the LA highlife. There's only one little problem…
Funny and pointed, The Writer's Cut is a manic satirical ride through the booze and sex fuelled world of Tinseltown from our one of the world's best loved comedians. Eric Idle is a comedian, actor, author, singer, playwright and songwriter. A co-creator of Monty Python on TV, he has also worked on both plays and films, including Nuns On the Run, Shrek The Third, The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen and The Holy Grail, which he adapted for the stage as the Tony-winning Spamalot in 2005. As a performer, he starred as Ko-Ko in the English National Opera's rendition of The Mikado, appeared in The Pirates of Penzance, wrote and performed the comic oratorio Not The Messiah, He's a Very Naughty Boy and created the rock band The Rutles. His musical What About Dick? starred Eddie Izzard, Russell Brand, Billy Connolly and Tracey Ullman, and in 2014 he wrote and directed the Monty Python reunion show One Down Five To Go at London's O2. Eric's novels include Hello Sailor and The Road to Mars.
