Still Ticking by Nigel Osner

One minute you pop into hospital for a routine procedure and the next minute somebody slips and accidentally pierces your heart! Then they try to fix your heart and accidentally pierce your lung. What an afternoon! When the angel of death is just around the corner waiting by the water cooler in a stylish pair of Raybans, there's only one thing for it: Get up, get away and tell that story! Well, as soon as you've learned how to walk again… Nigel Osner "the snake-hipped love child of Noel Coward and Eileen Atkins" (North West End) looks back at 25 years of performing, including that close encounter with death which nearly ended everything! He's aided by a colourful cast of characters, including an actor who's lost his mojo, an ageing vampire with false fangs --- and even an owl. Still Ticking! is packed with laughs, pathos and original songs. Nigel, once a practising barrister and Ministry of Justice employee, is now a writer, lyricist and performer appearing around the country. He is the ultimate 'one who got away' and he lives to spin a bloody good yarn.