- Still Your Friend
No matter how many times you die, you only live once!
Dying three times, Adam Bailey lives on to tell the true tall tales in this personal, funny and poignant show. From the award-winning creator of The TruthTM [superscript], The Life Henri and All Hail Mrs. Satan.
“Bailey’s a talented storyteller whose personality bubbles… What a pleasure to listen to.” – Winnipeg Free Press
“Adam Bailey is back with another masterfully told story to tickle your fancy… Insightful and charming.” – The Jenny Revue
We really enjoyed this show! Adam is a tremendous storyteller and a charismatic and funny person. Both my teenaged daughter and I throughly enjoyed his stories and found it very relatable.
Adam Bailey is such a captivating storyteller, I thoroughly enjoyed this performance. He weaves stories from his life (and his deaths!) together so artfully, I was mesmerized. This show also stands out at this year’s Fringe because not too many people are talking about literally dying in their shows. His gallows humour and down to earth approach to his death experiences are so entertaining, I definitely recommend this show!
Until now, Adam Bailey’s shows have focused on eccentric and fascinating figures from throughout history, from Gavrilo Princip, assassin of Archduke Ferdinand to Naïve painter Henri Rousseau and Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States. This year, however, he turns his formidable storytelling skills (like a standup comedian, he informs us, but with fewer jokes – not no jokes, juts fewer) upon perhaps the most fascinating figure of all: himself. Framed around three episodes where he almost died (both figuratively and literally), this show is a profoundly moving and sometimes darkly funny meditation on mortality, grief, and how, despite all our well-rehearsed cultural rituals, none of us is truly ready to confront death when it finally comes. Absolutely astonishing, and quite possibly Bailey’s magnum opus.