⭐ JACK ROOKE – GOOD GRIEF – SPECIAL RETROSPECTIVE TOUR ANNOUNCED ⭐
BAFTA-winning writer and performer Jack Rooke, creator of Channel 4 and Hulu’s critically acclaimed comedy-drama Big Boys, brings his debut comedy-theatre show GOOD GRIEF back to the stage for a special retrospective tour, ten years after the show first headed to the Edinburgh Fringe.
Returning to Edinburgh on 27th August 2026 for three nights only, the show will then head across the UK, including a date in London which is yet to be announced but will be Jack’s biggest ever venue to date, before concluding in Liverpool on 22nd October 2026.
Part revival, part reflection, GOOD GRIEF: a decade retrospective of capitalising on my dead dad to varied levels of failure and success revisits the original show – co-written with Jack’s then-80-year-old Nan Sicely – alongside present-day musings & brand new writing on grief, ambition, class, and the strange journey from aspiring spoken-word artist to BAFTA-winning television writer.
Expect a candid and funny exploration of losing a parent young, accidentally turning that grief into a career, the complicated reality of “making it” in television, and a call-to-arms for arts funding and infrastructure in a current day landscape that is far less open to working class artists than a decade ago.
In revisiting GOOD GRIEF, Jack returns to the work he made that started it all, when he was writing purely for himself and before the interference of what Jack affectionately calls “telly wankers”, whilst also exploring the guilt of now possibly becoming one himself.
Directed by Gabriel Bisset-Smith, the show remains a heartfelt and deeply funny look at loss, family and growing up – with a content warning that it may include discussions of grief, suicide, and Geri leaving the Spice Girls in May 1998.
Tickets will go on general sale on Friday 13th March 2026, available from – https://www.berksnest.com/jack-rooke
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