Pip utton biography examples

Utton came to professional performance later in life.!

Utton is warm and personable, and shows it again here, joking with the audience as they select his on-stage outfit.

Pip Utton offers up a whiplash-inducing, all-encompassing tour inside the Bard's brain with all the gusto and verve he can fit into an hour.

Utton came to professional performance later in life.

Pip's Shakespeare is longer merely the probable writer of wonderful plays and poetry but also a real man who loves, laughs, drinks, sings, dances and cries.

He talks of his childhood, his parents, his education, his army life, his marriage, his painting, writing and bricklaying and, of course, he talks of his many.

Pip Utton as Dylan

Note: This review is from the 2022 Fringe

‘Why do you hide behind a mask of lies and deception?’ This is one of the journalist-supplied questions that Pip Utton, as Bob Dylan, asks himself as he sits in a dressing room, preparing for his final concert.

Confrontational if asked of the real man; redundant in this context. Because while the real Dylan is notorious for his autobiographical misdirections and obliqueness under questioning, the Dylan presented in John Clancy’s play is an open book.

Utton’s one-man character pieces are a cherished part of Fringe folklore; the addition of rock’s greatest enigma to his repertoire seems a reasonable next step.

However, Dylan doesn’t lend himself well to this style of biography.

Critics hailed him as 'the greatest British painter since Turner' and yet many of his masterpieces look like deranged and violent monstrosities.

Utton is warm and personable, and shows it again here, joking with the audience as they select his on-stage outfit. He’s very easy to be in a room with. Dylan’s charisma is of an entirely different,