{"product_id":"tonight-with-donny-stixx-9781474275248","title":"Tonight With Donny Stixx","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not for the fact that during his most famous trick  sword swallowing  he accidentally punctured a lung and died on the spot. He became a legend. \u003c\/i\u003eDonny has committed an act that shocked everyone. Tabloids called him The Most Hated Boy Alive. But Donny doesn't want forgiveness. All Donny wants is . . . his own television show.Written by internationally acclaimed writer Philip Ridley, \u003ci\u003eTonight With Donny Stixx\u003c\/i\u003e is the companion piece to Ridley''s 2013 Fringe First-winner \u003ci\u003eDark Vanilla Jungle\u003c\/i\u003e, and received its premiere at the Soho Theatre, London, on 27 July 2015 before premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe need writers such as Ridley to take us to these dark crevasses of  experience . . . it all remains with you like a vivid hallucination * Arts Desk *\u003cbr\u003eNo one captures pain, violence and the misery of love gone wrong quite like Philip Ridley * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eRidley, as ever a master of lyrical unpleasantness . . .  lacerating  excruciating  theatre, which leaves the audience exhausted and  speechless * Evening Standard *","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408816283991,"sku":"9781474275248","price":14.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781474275248.jpg?v=1730504315","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tonight-with-donny-stixx-9781474275248","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}