Jenny Eclair is extending her critically acclaimed stand up tour SIXTY! (FFS!) for autumn 2022 adding over 25 dates nationwide. Bringing six decades around the sun and two additional years of wisdom back to the stage with her, having turned 62 in March, performances resume from 1st September at Bristol’s Redgrave Theatre until 24th October at London’s Duchess Theatre. Tickets are now on general sale here.
Having hit 60 in 2020 (but still a year younger than Madonna), Jenny Eclair AKA ‘The Face of Vagisan’ confronts a new decade of decrepitude. Now that it takes 20 minutes of scrolling down to find her DOB when she’s filling in forms online, should she celebrate or crawl into a hole? What will her 60’s hold for this 1960’s babe and is it a legal requirement to buy Nordic walking poles?
Jenny was the first woman to win the prestigious Perrier Award and this latest tour follows her previous sell-out show, How To be A Middle Aged Woman (Without Going Insane), which toured the UK and had a run at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.
She has many TV and radio credits to her name, most recently hosting a brand new series of Drawers Off (Channel 4) which has been recommissioned for a second series and Craftivism (BBC Four). Other TV credits include the Grumpy Old Women series (BBC Two), The Great Celebrity Bake Off For Stand Up To Cancer (Channel 4), Loose Women (ITV), Splash (ITV) and I’m a Celebrity (ITV). Her radio series of monologues Little Lifetimes (BBC Radio 4) has been commissioned for a seventh series. West End theatre credits include Steaming, Mum’s the Word and both Grumpy Old Women Live and Chin Up Britain, co-written by Eclair and Holder.
She currently co-hosts the Older and Wider podcast with Grumpy Old Women producer Judith Holder, having written the internationally successful Grumpy Old Women Live stage shows together.
As an author, Older and Wider, A Survivor’s Guide to the Menopause made The Sunday Times Best Sellers List in the summer of 2020 and is now out in paperback. Jenny is also a Sunday Times top ten bestselling author of the critically acclaimed novels Camberwell Beauty, Having a Lovely Time and Life, Death and Vanilla Slices, as well as the Richard and Judy bestseller, Moving, the short story collection, Listening In and Inheritance. Her brand new book aimed at young adults, The Writing on the Wall is released in paperback this summer.
