NEW VENUE – An Evening with Matthew Parris

NEW VENUE: CHRIST CHURCH, JULIAN ROAD, BA1 2RH. If you’ve booked places for this event, we will be in contact shortly to confirm the change of venue.

There’s no pleasure like a perfectly-turned put-down (when it’s directed at somebody else, of course) but Matthew Parris’s Scorn is sharply different from the standard collections.  He shows that insults can be an art form, and will share a selection of the funniest, sharpest, rudest and most devastating insults in history, from ancient Roman graffiti to the battlefields of Twitter. Drawing on bile from such masters as Dorothy Parker, Elizabeth I, Boris Johnson, Groucho Marx, Princess Anne, Winston Churchill, Mae West and Alastair Campbell – which form an exchange between voices down the ages. This collection includes extended literary invective as well as short verbal shin-kicks.