Dame Joanna Lumley has been announced as the 2024 Isle of Man Arts Council Annual Lecture Guest.
This is the best. Isle of Man Arts Council, thank you.
The “in conversation” style event will take place at the Gaiety Theatre on Monday, September 30 at 7.30pm.
Joanna Lumley’s early films include On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and two Pink Panther comedies with early television appearances on General Hospital and Coronation Street before becoming immortalised as Purdy in The New Avengers.
Joanna Lumley
However, it was her BAFTA-award winning role as the chain smoking Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous which brought her renewed fame with the series proving itself one of the classic sitcoms of British television.
Since Ab Fab, Joanna has acted in many successful television dramas such as Dr Willoughby and A Rather English Marriage as well as working with Martin Scorsese in the acclaimed The Wolf of Wall Street, Paddington 2 and playing The Queen in the adaptation of David Walliams’ Gangsta Granny.
Joanna is a keen supporter of the Gurkhas, and was the public face of a campaign to provide all Gurkha veterans who served in the British Army before 1997 the right to settle in Britain.
The lecture will give the audience a look into the life of one the UK’s most loved actresses, covering her modelling, activism, film and television career, and the evening will also include the opportunity for the audience to ask questions directly to Joanna.
Tickets
All tickets for the event will go on sale on Thursday, March 28 at 10am via the VillaGaiety website.
As part of the IOM Arts Council subsidised ticketing programme, all tickets in the Amphitheatre and the Gallery will be priced at £10.00.
As last year, seats in the circle are priced at £35.00, stalls at £30.00 and boxes at £100.
For further information, please contact Zoe Shuttleworth, Arts Administrator via email: Zoe.Shuttleworth@gov.im or by phone: 01624 694596.
With all the important information out there, I feel it would be rude not to include one of my favourite lines from the legend Patsy herself: “Darling, if you want to talk b*ll*cks and discover the meaning of life, you’re better off downing a bottle of whiskey.
“At least that way, you’re unconscious by the time you start to take yourself seriously.”
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