Twitter Star Fry’s Unscripted Evening
The idea that an entertainer would organise a 5,000-seater solo gig with no script and only a hazy plan to amuse the crowd, brings to mind images of creeks and paddles. But if that entertainer happens to be a wizard of digital technology with a sizeable Twitter following and a grand plan to crowd-source his material, the scheme may just float. Stephen Fry, writer, comedian and raconteur, has announced that his solo show at the Royal Albert Hall, in London, next month will remain, for the best part, unscripted. Fry will rely on his Twitter fans to suggest topics for his monologue. At the Sydney Opera House, where he did something similar, he riffed on topics beginning with “W”: Wodehouse, in particular. Wodehouse, of course, wrote the Jeeves and Wooster books that Fry and his ungay lover, Hugh “House” Laurie, brought to life on the telly. Excerpt from one of them above.
