Fresh from a five star award-nominated (Offie nominations for Most Promising New Playwright and Best Female Performance) run at Soho Theatre, All The Things I Lied About is a fearlessly honest show for the post-truth era.

Fringe First winner Katie Bonna is giving a TED talk on the science of lying. Well, that’s not quite true. TED haven’t actually asked her to do one – yet. In a comic exploration of her past mistakes and inevitable future disasters, Katie unpicks how everyday lies can lead to a world of Trump and Brexit.

Bonna comments, All The Things I Lied About is hands down the most personal piece of work I've made, but the act of making it allowed me to join the dots between the lies I've experienced, the seemingly harmless ones that most people tell on a daily basis and the enormity of the post-truth society we are supposedly now living in. 

How much do we really lie? Why do we do it? What does it mean to be honest? In a bid to save us all from the clutches of dishonesty, Bonna shares her own lie diary and the first and worst lies she ever told. Bonna exposes gaslighting – psychologically manipulating someone until they doubt their own reality and reveals some of the painful details of her past. But, despite all her efforts, is she really being as truthful as she claims?

… a riveting, funny and often discomfiting hour, in which Bonna confesses some childhood lies  - including tricking her younger sister into drinking her urine - to more recent ones, including how long she spends at the gym or how much she says she gives to charity, fibs that she records in her "liary" (★★★★★ Evening Standard).

Katie Bonna is an award-winning performance poet, actress and writer for stage and screen. Dirty Great Love Story, co-written with Richard Marsh, won a Fringe First Award at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where she was also nominated for Best Actress by The Stage. The play went on to run at Soho Theatre and in New York at 59E59 Theaters in 2013 and at The Arts Theatre, London in 2017.

Running time 60 minutes

Box Office Tickets are available from individual theatre box offices
http://www.katiebonna.org/gigs/

Twitter @KatieBonna, #ATTILA

Writer/Performer Katie Bonna
Producer Paul Jellis
Director Joe Murphy
Associate Director Alex Thorpe
Designer Lily Arnold
Lighting & Technical Designer Tom Clutterbuck


Performance Dates

16th September Hightide Festival, Aldeburgh – 2.30pm
Aldeburgh Cinema, 51 High St, Aldeburgh IP15 5AU

20th September Norwich Arts Centre – 8pm
St. Benedict's Street, Norwich, NR2 4PG

22nd – 23rd September Tron Theatre – 7:45pm
63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB
25th September Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds – 7:30pm
Westgate St, Bury Saint Edmunds, IP33 1QR

27th September The Stahl Theatre – 7:45pm
Oundle School, Oundle, Peterborough PE8 4GH

28th September The North Wall – 8pm
South Parade, Oxford, OX2 7JN

29th September Dixon Studio – 2pm and 8pm
Southend-On-Sea, Cliffs Pavilion, Station Rd, Westcliff-on-Sea, SS0 7RA

30th September Sherman Theatre – 7:30pm
Senghennydd Road, Cardiff, CF24 4YE

3rd – 7th October The Bike Shed Theatre – 7:30pm
162/3 Fore Street, Exeter, EX4 3AT

12th October The Riverfront Newport – 7:45pm
Kingsway, Newport, NP20 1HG

13th – 14th October The Edge Theatre & Arts Centre – 7:30pm
Manchester Road, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 9JG

16th October Shelley Theatre – 8pm
Beechwood Avenue, Bournemouth, Dorset, BH5 1LX

17th – 18th October The Everyman Theatre – 7:45pm
Regent Street, Cheltenham GL50 1HQ 

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