Tonight With Donny Stixx [Paperback]

It's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not for the fact that during his most famous trick  sword swallowing  he accidentally punctured a lung and died on the spot. He became a legend.

Donny has committed an act that shocked everyone. Tabloids called him The Most Hated Boy Alive. But Donny doesn't want forgiveness. All Donny wants is . . . his own television show.

Written by internationally acclaimed writer Philip Ridley,Tonight With Donny Stixxis the companion piece to Ridley's 2013 Fringe First-winnerDark Vanilla Jungle, and received its premiere at the Soho Theatre, London, on 27 July 2015 before premiering at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Philip Ridleywas born in the East End of London. He studied painting at St Martin's School of Art and his work has been exhibited widely throughout Europe and Japan. As well as three books for adults (Crocodilia,In The Eyes of Mr FuryandFlamingos in Orbit)- and the highly acclaimed screenplay for the The Krays feature film (winner of the Evening Standard Best Film of the Year Award) - he has written eleven adult stage plays: the seminalThe Pitchfork Disney, the multi award-winning The Fastest Clock in the Universe,Ghost from a Perfect Place,Vincent River,Mercury Fur, Leaves of Glass,Piranha Heights,Tender Napalm(nominated for the London Fringe Best Play Award), Shivered (nominated Off-West End Best New Play Award),Dark Vanilla Jungle(winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award) andRadiant Vermin, plus several plays for young people:Karamazoo,Fairytaleheart,Moonfleece(named as one of the 50 Best Works About Cultural Diversity by the National Centre for Children's Books),SparklesharkandBrokenville(collcß