One-Man Show

During his creative time at Greenwich Theatre under Ewan Hooper’s imaginative aegis, when he appeared in Pinter’s The Caretaker and in Twelfth Night, Max invented his one man show Aspects of Max Wall and enjoyed a successful 1974 season there, attracting a new audience of young people. When he appeared at the Shaw Theatre the following year Alistair Cooke acclaimed him with one of the most glowing reviews of his long career. In time Max took the show as far afield as the Adelaide Festival in Australia, where he was compared to one of his favourite modern comics, Lenny Bruce, and played it in the West End at the Garrick Theatre where it was televised by the newly-launched Channel 4.

When he died in May 1990 Max was as creative as ever and planning a new one-man show. In 2006 a commemorative plaque was placed by the Max Wall Society on his London birthplace.

In 1973, when Max stole all the notices in his return to the West End in Cockie!, based on impresario CB Cochran’s career for whom he had worked in 1927, the International Herald Tribune had proclaimed Max Wall as:

`Quite simply, the funniest comedian in the world.'

His multi-faceted talent remains unequalled.