At the start of an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, one of the group tells their story, prompting the rest of the room to share feelings and thoughts. That person is the “chairman”, and Tony Adams sees it as the role he’ll play in his theatre tour, beginning later this month.
The first 45 minutes will be Tony, wandering the stage, describing his journey from first childhood panic attack, to being bullied at school, to becoming so deep in a world of drink that he once left his young son in a pub for three days, to go on a bender.
There were drugs, prostitutes, fights, regular times of soiling the bed; there was prison, a car crash, depression. He’ll tell self-deprecating stories of those times “that