Bill Bryson's Notes From A Small Island

When Bill Bryson, a young man from Des Moines, Iowa, landed on the shores of Dover in 1973 he didn’t realise he would fall in love with the small island of Great Britain. Travelling the length of the nation, picking up a wife and family on the way, Bill encountered a string of eccentricities and idiosyncrasies that melted his heart. From landladies with strict house rules regarding counterpanes to policemen on the beat, cabbies, buskers, Sir David Attenborough, tea rooms, pubs and even Dr Samuel Johnson, the British and the places in which they lived and worked fascinated him.

Bill Bryson’s book spent three years in The Sunday Times bestseller list and sold over two million copies. 

An ensemble cast of eight bring this journey of discovery to life. Playing 95 characters, along with a few extras thrown in for good measure, they remind us all of what makes the British “British”.