Ruby Wax – Losing It
Featuring:
Ruby Wax and Judith Owen
Directed by:
Thea Sharrock
Working with the BBC for over 25 years, Ruby Wax is best known for her documentaries, comedy and interview shows. She performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company for 5 years, was script editor for the BBC’s Absolutely Fabulous, is a travel writer, a journalist and actress.
Previously she studied psychology at the University of Berkeley, California and is currently undertaking her Master’s at Oxford University, studying the mind. Currently she is facilitating leadership groups in finance, telecommunications and internet companies amongst others, to improve their communication skills.
Welsh singer-songwriter Judith Owen, based until recently in LA, is best known to UK audiences as the exquisite voice of Richard Thompson’s 1000 Years of Popular Music. Judith has been described by Jamie Cullum as ‘a female Randy Newman’ and by The New York Times as having, ‘the kind of folk-jazz voice that slices away surfaces to touch the vulnerable emotional nerve endings and leave you quivering’. Drawing upon her life-long battle with depression, Owen believes in creating poignancy out of pain. It is this sentiment that lays the foundation for her latest album The Beautiful Damage Collection which also features many of the songs from Ruby Wax - Losing It.
Thea Sharrock’s credits include Terrence Rattigan’s After the Dance(National Theatre); Equus, starring Daniel Radcliffe, which ran at the Gielgud Theatre, London, and on Broadway; and Heroes which ran at the Wyndham’s Theatre and the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles. She has also directed Keira Knightly in The Misanthrope (Comedy Theatre); and Derek Jacobi in Voyage Round My Father (Donmar Theatre), among numerous other productions. Thea Sharrock has been the Artistic Director of both the Southwark Playhouse and The Gate Theatre. Her production of Blithe Spirit starring Alison Steadman and Hermione Norris opens at the Apollo in March.
