Adrian Howells

The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding

A cure for loneliness?

26 Aug 2011

This one-on-one hotel room experience is Adrian Howells’ attempt at total care for a single audience member. It starts with a warm bath filled with rose petals. I undress and step in. ‘It’s my honour to bathe you,’ Howells says, with no hint of…

May I Have the Pleasure . . . ?

Champagne, slow dancing and loneliness

19 Aug 2011

Adrian Howells is a warm and empathetic character and a captivating speaker. This helps to explain why he’s been picked to be a best man six times. However, in this one-man show he’s facing up to some cold facts. Like how, at 50 years old, he’s still…

Adrian Howells bring May I Have the Pleasure to 2011 Edinburgh Festival

Adrian Howells creates exchange between performer and audience

27 Jul 2011

Glasgow-based performer and the Arches artist-in-residence Adrian Howells has two shows debuting at the Fringe this year: May I Have the Pleasure...? and The Pleasure of Being: Washing, Feeding, Holding. In the first, Howells muses upon the irony of…

Internal and Adrian Howells among highlights of Arches Behaviour festival

21 Apr 2010

In the era of the ASBO, more restrictions are placed on our behaviour than existed a generation ago. Our media focuses so much attention on the possibility of dangers presented by other people’s behaviour that we end up fearing others while policing our…

Interactive theatre at the Fringe

Yasmin Sulaiman talks to Adrian Howells about crossing the third wall

23 Jul 2009

While site-specific productions such as the public toilets-set Waiting for Godot might have chins wagging, interactive shows promise to provide the more meaningful experiences in 2009.

Figures of fun

What the Edinburgh Festival means in numbers

13 Jul 2009

1,535,519 tickets, 34,265 performances and nine rubber ducks. All that and more make up a busy August.

The Garden of Adrian

11 Jun 2009

NEW WORK There can be few performers with the immense personal charm of Adrian Howells. His is a theatrical presence that inspires trust, and deservedly so. Perhaps only Howells could carry off this latest piece of performance, which involves a…

World AIDS Day

29 Nov 2007

AWARENESS-RAISING Various events, Sat 1 Dec Now in its 20th year, World AIDS Day is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic and related issues. The event, which takes place annually on 1 December, is the culmination of a year-round…

An Audience With Adrienne

16 Aug 2007

This show makes for an endearing evening with an extremely personable performer, which, within Theo Clinkard’s fluffy, camp lounge room set, is likely to bring you some pleasant memories and the odd melancholic thought. In it, performance artist and…

Arts intervention

Artists take an academic approach to their work

16 Jan 2007

A trio of leading Scottish artists is crossing over into the world of academia in a bid to reinvigorate the way in which the arts are taught at higher education institutions.