Defending The Caveman

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Comedy previewed 3 February 2009, opened 6 February 2009, closed 5 April 2009, returned from 2 to 21 February 2010 at the Leicester Square Theatre in London.

A major revival of Rob Becker's award winning comedy Defending the Caveman in London starring Mark Little - back by popular demand!

"Uproariously funny" The Daily Telegraph

Neighbours star Mark Little returns to London with his hysterically funny look at men, women and the battle of the sexes. This very popular comedy Defending the Caveman was written by Rob Becker over a three year period during which he made an informal study of anthropology, prehistory, psychology, sociology and mythology.

WINNER! BEST ENTERTAINMENT! OLIVIER AWARDS 2000!

Defending the Cave man originally opened in San Francisco in 1991 and soon moved to Dallas. After a year in Dallas played at a number of other US cities before opening on Broadway in 1995. After running two and a half years, playing 702 performances at the Helen Hayes Theater, Defending the Caveman entered the record books as the longest running solo play in Broadway history. The original London production, starring Mark Little, opened at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue in February 1999 and played a successful seven month season.

"This funny, provocative and often remarkably wise show... written by the American stand-up Rob Becker, ran for two and a half years on Broadway, breaking all records for a one-man show. Little, an engagingly slobbish, inoffensively yobbish bloke who made his name in Neighbours, has been given "a licence to make the play his own", and the result is a fine mixture of perceptive near-the-knuckle comedy and a genuine attempt to broker peace in the continuing war between the sexes." The Daily Telegraph

"In 1996, this became the longest-running solo play in Broadway history. It's hard to see London indulging such merely likable, lightweight fare for so long, but then look at the Reduced Shakespeare Company. Perhaps an extended lecture-cum-stand-up routine about why men (hunters) are uncommunicative, grubby simpletons, while women (gatherers) are fast-talking, mystical beings, is just what the capital needs. And Little, under the direction of David Gilmore, has certainly done a fine job of making the play his own." The Sunday Times

"Rob Beckers's one-man play Defending the Caveman is written by an American and performed by an Australian, Mark Little, but it transfers pretty seamlessly to a British setting... Mark Little plays a blokeish but keen-witted man who holds forth on the differences between men and women - social, sexual, domestic, you name it. Some of the pop anthropology is a bit dubious, but most of the detailed observations are shrewd, funny and good-humoured." The Sunday Telegraph

Defending the Caveman in London at the Leicester Square Theatre previewed from 3 February 2009, opened 6 February 2009 and closes 5 April 2009. Returns to London's Leicester Square Theatre from 2 to 21 February 2010.