HOW TO FIND LOVE, LOSE WEIGHT & LIVE FOREVER… WITHOUT REALLY TRYING!
FOR TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY
ON SUNDAY 9 DECEMBER & SUNDAY 6 JANUARY
AT THE APOLLO THEATRE IN LONDON’S WEST END
Children across the UK are already fans of Dr Chris and Dr Xand from their hugely successful TV and live show Operation Ouch!. Now the identical twins have an adults-only show to share. For two performances only, the doctors will perform How To Find Love, Lose Weight & Live Forever… Without Really Trying! on Sunday 9 December 2018 and Sunday 6 January 2019 at the Apollo Theatre in London’s West End.
Pleasure and danger are intimately linked: whether your weakness is cake, drugs, TV box sets or base-jumping, modern life presents humans with a set of temptations and consequential harms we can all understand. Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken will examine how it’s possible to get the most out of ourselves without self-help taking over our lives and without getting distracted by fads and nonsense.
Chris and Xand are working doctors and scientists, who have a decade of making TV shows about health behind them. They will distillate live on stage the best of what they have learned from their experiences in the swamp forests of the Congo, Malaysian religious rituals, hallucinogens from the Amazon, naked swimming in the Arctic Ocean, work in refugee camps and war zones and everything in between.
Dr Chris and Dr Xand van Tulleken are identical twins who grew up in London and trained in medicine at Oxford University, graduating in 2002. They both still work in medicine: Dr Chris is an infectious diseases doctor based at University College London Hospital and Dr Xand is the Helen Hamlyn Senior Fellow at Fordham University’s Institute of International Humanitarian Affairs, with his main interests and expertise in Public Health, Medicine, Humanitarian Aid and Anthropology. Their TV shows include The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed, Frontline Doctors: Winter Migrant Crisis, Horizon, Is Binge Drinking Really That Bad?, Blow Your Mind, Horizon, Sugar V Fat, Which Doctor?, The Secret Life of Twins, Medicine Men Go Wild, as well as their hugely popular children’s series, Operation Ouch!, which has won two BAFTAs and the seventh series of which will be shown on CBBC early 2019. On his own, Chris has presented two series of The Doctor Who Gave Up Drugs, The Truth About…HIV, and How to Stay Young, all for BBC1. Xand’s solo TV programmes include Truth About Carbs, Horizon: Male Suicide, Fighting for Air, Expedition Volcano, Horizon: Sports Doping – Winning at any Cost? and Horizon: How to Find Love Online, all for the BBC, and How to Lose Weight Well for Channel 4.
The European premiere of How To Find Love, Lose Weight & Live Forever… Without Really Trying! is written by Chris and Xand van Tulleken and directed by Peter Adams, with lighting by Richard Dinnen. It is presented by Andrew Kay and Margot Teele for Andrew Kay & Associates.
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LISTINGS INFORMATION
9 December 2018 & 6 January 2019
Apollo Theatre
31 Shaftesbury Avenue
London W1D 7EZ
Box Office: 0330 333 4809 / www.nimaxtheatres.com
Tickets: from £29.50* (*a £1.50 booking fee applies for online and phone bookings and all tickets include a 50p restoration levy. No booking fee for tickets purchased in person from the Apollo Theatre Box Office.)
Performances: Sunday 9 December 2018 & Sunday 6 January 2019 at 7.00pm
Running Time: 80 minutes, no interval
Recommended Age: 16+