In 2003 Lance Armstrong won his 5th consecutive Tour de France, an achievement watched by a young and impressionable Kieran Hodgson from his West Yorkshire home. Lance is the hilarious story of growing up and moving on in the wake of a betrayal by your hero.
Lance traces Kieran’s experiences growing up and sees him embody his best friends in the Boy Scouts, reliving the years spent with them on his bicycle, as well as some of the colourful characters he met once he moved down South. This lively personal narrative is tied together through a representation of his fallen hero, Lance Armstrong, culminating with the Tour De France’s incongruous arrival in Yorkshire last year and Lance’s exposure and public humiliation.
Lance has now had two sold out week-long runs in the Downstairs Space at the Soho Theatre (as well as two weeks at the Invisible Dot)
As well as displaying his impressive and hilarious live character comedy, Hodgson has appeared in BBC’s Jonathan Creek and Count Arthur Strong as well as E4’s Drifters and the box office smash Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa. Kieran also has a guest role in the upcoming second series of the BBC Three hit comedy Siblings.
Kieran will be seen as the role of Ian Lavender in BBC Two‚Äôs upcoming single drama¬†WE’RE DOOMED! THE DAD‚ÄôS ARMY STORY¬†alongside John Sessions, Kevin Bishop and Sally Phillips.
So watch as Hodgson narrates his way through a Tour de force of weird and wonderful characters at Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre, in a coming of age story filled with betrayal and redemption bound to leave you laughing.
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