Louis Theroux – Live on Stage in London | How To Academy

Thu, 11 November 2021

8:00 pm - 9:15 pm GMT

Conway Hall, London

Louis Theroux – Live on Stage in London

In Conversation With Dawn O’Porter

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He’s reported from porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units. But nothing prepared Louis Theroux for his weirdest subjects yet: his own family during the COVID lockdown…

Like millions of others, Louis Theroux’s plans were mothballed by the onset of Covid. Unable to escape to the porn sets, prisons and maximum-security psychiatric units that are his usual journalistic beat, he began reporting on a location even more full of pitfalls and hostile objects of inquiry: his own home during a pandemic.

Live on stage in London and livestreamed, Louis joins critically acclaimed novelist and presenter Dawn O’Porter with an honest, hilarious and ultimately heart warming account of the weirdness of family life in CovidWorld. A wife intolerant of his obsession with Joe Wicks’ daily workouts. Two teenage sons, inseparable from their videogames, for whom he is increasingly ‘cringe’. A five-year-old happily spamming out videos on his own new TikTok account while on holiday with his oblivious family.

Louis and Dawn will explore how he launched his podcast, Grounded, finally got to the US to film a new Joe Exotic documentary and aimed his sights on the latest incarnation of the far right in a world becoming radicalized by social media.

Join the BAFTA award winning filmmaker and bestselling author at his insightful best, as he faces unforeseen new challenges and wonders why it took a pandemic for him to learn that what really matters in life is right in front of him.

Tickets to this live, on-stage event include a signed copy of Louis’ new book, Theroux the Keyhole.

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Louis Theroux

BAFTA Winning Documentary Film-Maker

Louis Theroux is an award-winning journalist and documentary film-maker whose programmes are shown all over the world. After landing a job as a presenter on Michael Moore’s TV Nation, he was given his own series on the BBC, Weird Weekends with Louis Theroux, which first aired in 1998. His feature-length documentary, My Scientology Movie, was released in2016. He has been awarded three BAFTAs and a Royal Television Society Television Award for his work. His first autobiography, Gotta Get Theroux This, was published in2019 and was a Sunday Times bestseller.

Dawn O’Porter

Critically Acclaimed Author and TV Presenter

Dawn O’Porter is the critically acclaimed author of the novels The Cows and the Richard and Judy Book Club pick So Lucky. Dawn started out in TV production but quickly landed in front of the camera, making numerous documentaries that included immersive investigations of Polygamy, Size Zero, Childbirth, Free Love, Breast Cancer and the movie Dirty Dancing. Further TV work included This Old Thing, a prime-time Channel 4 show celebrating the wonders of vintage clothing.