Bill Bryson’s smash-hit memoir, Notes From A Small Island, will journey to the stage in a national UK Tour starring TV favourite Les Dennis as much-loved writer Bill Bryson. 

This stage adaptation celebrates one of the nation’s most beloved books by one of the country’s most treasured authors. Notes From A Small Island spent three years in The Sunday Times bestsellers list and sold over two million copies. BBC Radio 4 listeners voted it as the book which best represents England. 

Les Dennis is one of the UK’s best-known entertainers with a career in showbusiness spanning over 50 years. In recent years Les has enjoyed a thriving career as an actor, starring with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the English National Opera and in numerous hit plays and musicals in the West End and on tour, as well as a regular role on Coronation Street. 

First staged at the Watermill Theatre in 2023, the national tour will visit Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury from 11 - 15 March 2025, Festival Theatre, Malvern from 15 - 19 April 2025 and The Alexandra, Birmingham from 29 April - 3 May 2025, with tickets now on sale. Further dates and full casting to be announced.