Critically acclaimed, award-winning, best-selling writer, journalist and documentary filmmaker Jon Ronson is setting out on his biggest UK tour yet, starting in Cambridge on May 6 and including a show at the London Palladium on May 12. It finishes at the Edinburgh Assembly Rooms on the May 27.
In the show Tales from The Last Days of August and The Butterfly Effect Jon will recount his recent adventures in the porn world - based on his hit podcasts The Butterfly Effect and The Last Days of August. It’ll be a mysterious, funny, sad tale about porn, kindness, violence, bad thoughts, and the wonders of remaining curious. There will be new stories, never before heard audio, some very strange (PG rated) bespoke porn film clips, and maybe some special guests.
Jon Ronson’s non-fiction books include So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, The Psychopath Test, Them: Adventures With Extremists, Lost At Sea and The Men Who Stare At Goats. All have been international and/or New York Times best-sellers and translated into more than 30 languages. His two TED talks have been watched 15 million times.
Jon Ronson’s original screenplays include the critically acclaimed Netflix original Okja, which he co-wrote with Bong-Joon Ho, and Frank, which he co-wrote with Peter Straughan. Okja was selected to compete for the Palm D’Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival and Frank won the Best Screenplay Award at the 2014 British Independent Film Awards. The Men Who Stare At Goats was adapted into a film starring George Clooney.
In the US Ronson is a regular contributor to This American Life, the New York Times and GQ magazines, and regularly appears as a guest on radio and TV. In the UK he writes for The Guardian; his documentaries include Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes, The Secret Rulers of the World, and seven seasons of the multi-award winning BBC Radio 4 programme Jon Ronson On… His most recent works are the Audible Original Series The Butterfly Effect and The Last Days of August.
Jon Ronson Tour Dates
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Monday 6th May Cambridge Corn Exchange
Wednesday 7th May Bath Forum
Sunday 12th May London Palladium
Thursday 16th May Cardiff St David’s Hall
Friday 17th May Birmingham 02 Academy
Saturday 18th May Liverpool Philharmonic
Sunday 19th May Leeds Town Hall
Tuesday 21th May Newcastle Tyne Theatre
Wednesday 22th May Manchester Albert Hall
Saturday 25th May Glasgow Grand Hall
Monday 27th May Edinburgh Assembly Rooms
