Jonny & The Baptists: The Happiness Index

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Jonny & The Baptists bring The Happiness Index to the Tron Theatre... a new personal and political show about our desire, and the country's struggle, to just be happy.

About Jonny & The Baptists: The Happiness Index

Listed Under Comedy Events / Nights Out Events

Recommended Age Guide 14+ | Contains strong language, allusions to bestiality.

SCOTTISH PREMIERE

Are you happy? We can help!

Five Prime Ministers ago, David Cameron started a ‘happiness index’ to measure how joyful the people of this nation are. Which is ironic, given what he then did.

Anyway, we’ve picked up the baton and now are trying to find out what the hell we should do with it.

A new personal and political show about our desire, and the country’s struggle, to just be happy.

‘We laugh at the jokes… but we feel the pain, the increasingly frantic desperation, too. And this is the genius of these two: they make us laugh, then the penny drops – this is the way vulnerable people are treated in 21st century Britain.’ ★★★★★ Edinburgh Reporter

Written by JONNY DONAHOE and PADDY GERVERS
Directed by JAMES ROWLAND
Script Editor JOHN LUKE ROBERTS
Lighting Design ROBERT WELLS
Sound Design PADDY GERVERS and ROB SELL
Outside Eyes DUNCAN MACMILLAN, BENEDICT LOMBE, JOSIE LONG, COLIN HOULT, LAOISE HOLOHAN and ETHAN DAVIES
Producers IMPATIENT PRODUCTIONS LTD

Supported by Arts Council England

Image by Matt Crockett

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