There has never been a better time for an uplifting show. To Make People Happy explores the humour section of second hand book shops, jokes overheard on market stalls and finding the positives in life, even if that means finding friendship with your end-of-life carers and sharing a love of Chas and Dave with a taxi driver after the world’s least appealing wedding. With audio clips of moments guaranteed to make an audience happy, this is a poetry show with a difference.

John Osborne’s poems have been longlisted in the Forward Prize, published in The Big Issue, Rialto and The Guardian and broadcast on BBC Radio 1, Radoi 3, Radio 4, 6Music, Soho Radio and XFM. He has performed theatre shows and poetry across the UK, at arts centres, theatres, pubs and village halls.