In his recent website interview, Joseph revealed that he would be returning to the stage later this year. This evening he tweeted the details of the play.

 

Unfortunately, Hampstead Theatre have been tweeing that seats are nearly sold out for Mr Foote's Other Leg, which opens on 14th September. So get your tickets soon!

In Georgian London no one is more famous than Samuel Foote. Satirist, impressionist and dangerous comedian, he has become a celebrity in a city and at a moment in time when the concept of selling personality was born. He even has the ear of the king. Adored by many, despised by some, Foote finds himself at the sharp end of attacks from the press…and a surgeon’s knife. And in an age obsessed with fame, his colleagues from the worlds of science and the stage – from Benjamin Franklin to David Garrick – begin to wonder: does fame make you mad?