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	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| The rapid rise of Perrier winner
		Adamsdale's show and character have been hailed as something above the cliched imitation and satire of cheesy life coaches.
		Adamsdale only took his show to Edinburgh, it has been reported, because a friend ran the Underbelly venue and had a spare slot.
		If anyone recognises him at all, it will be for his part as Nigel Havers' wayward son Justin in BBC series Manchild, and he has also recently appeared in ITV's Rosemary and Thyme.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3609114.stm (515 words)

	Independent, The (London): Actor's Perrier triumph proves a week is a long time in comedy at
		Adamsdale won a cheque for pounds 7,500, supplemented by a pounds 1 coin from last year's winner, Demetri Martin, and the Hollywood actor Christian Slater, who has been performing in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in Edinburgh and who presented the prizes.
		Adamsdale is something of a comedy ingenue, having spent most of his dcareer since Eton, Manchester University and a drama school outside Oxford working in theatre.
		Will Adamsdale will top the bill at Her Majesty's Theatre, London, on 3, 10 and 17 October, when all the Perrier nominees will appear.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040830/ai_n12797715 (684 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts special reports \| Comedy novice wins Perrier for his life lessons
		Yesterday, Adamsdale was pondering his future, unsure if he would stay in the comedy sector or return to mainstream acting.
		Adamsdale, who got started in acting when he visited the fringe as a teenager, said his creation had taken on a comedic life of its own.
		Adamsdale said his character, whose central philosophy is "around every pointful action there is an infinite number of pointless actions", was not based on any one person.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/edinburgh2004/story/0,14762,1293418,00.html (513 words)

	The Edinburgh festival 2004 -- Perrier Awards 2004
		Jackson's Way is the creation of Will Adamsdale aka Jackson, a motivational speaker whose approach to life celebrates the futility of pointless acts.
		The winners, and the nominees, will be appearing in the Perrier Comedy Award Season in London's West End at Her Majesty's Theatre where the winner will be presented with a trophy and a cheque for £7,500.
		Congratulations to actor, Will Adamsdale, who has carried off the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award over a very strong shortlist with this, his first ever comedy show- a show so strong that it jumped over the Newcomers Award shortlist to go straight on to the main list.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2004/fringe/perrier_awards.shtml (318 words)

	ireland.com // T H E T I C K E T // THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING
		Adamsdale didn't do that much research for the role of Jackson because, as he points out, the language employed by these life coach types has now haemorrhaged into contemporary culture - it's everywhere from Sunday supplement newspaper articles about healing and positivity to the language used by human resources departments.
		Adamsdale entered Jackson's Way into the comedy section of the Fringe programme, despite the fact he was a theatre actor who had no prior experience with comedy.
		Adamsdale's Perrier win was the biggest shock in the competition's history: an actor with an afternoon show simply doesn't win the Perrier.
	www.ireland.com /theticket/articles/2005/0304/4069911130TK0403JACKSONS.html (1105 words)

	BBC - Nottingham - Entertainment - Get motivated with Will Adamsdale
		Adamsdale and his motivational speaking alter-ego Chris John Jackson are appearing at Cabaret in Nottingham.
		Will Adamsdale leapt from obscurity during the Edinburgh Festival in 2004, to win the Perrier Award.
		Adamsdale's alter-ego Chris John Jackson is a motivational speaker on a mission to transform people's lives.
	www.bbc.co.uk /nottingham/content/articles/2005/03/15/entertainment_comedy_interviews_2005_03_will_adamsdale_feature.shtml (189 words)

	Scotsman.com Entertainment - the complete entertainment, culture and arts guide to Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Adamsdale, a former public schoolboy just into his thirties, trained at the Oxford Academy of Drama and was, before this, an actor with a small but creditable reputation.
		He is convinced that Jackson will go down a storm in Australia, but taking him to the US, he says, "is possibly like putting something on the wrong end of the magnet.
		For Adamsdale, the Perrier label has turned him into a somebody, opened doors in a manner that continues to surprise him: "It turns a few heads.
	entertainment.scotsman.com /comedy/headlines_specific.cfm?id=9823 (892 words)

	Smirnoff Underbelly 2004 - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Will first came to the Edinburgh Festival in 1991 in a play directed by Charlie Wood and produced by Tom Page, now two of the three directors of the Underbelly.
		Will originally only decided to come to the Festival for a one week trial run because the Underbelly had a spare afternoon slot.
		Charlie persuaded Will to extend his run to the end of the Festival, which gave him the opportunity to catch the eye of the Perrier judges, critics and fellow performers.
	www.underbelly.net /2004/news.html (2637 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - Entertainment - Funnyman gets serious for debate on world's festival cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		PERRIER Award winner Will Adamsdale will be one of the panellists debating the future of the world's festival cities at an event in Edinburgh.
		Also taking part will be Nicola Barry, 2005 newspaper columnist of the year, writer Julian Spalding, Neil Murray, director of the National Theatre of Scotland, and William Burdett-Coutts, artistic director of the Assembly Theatres.
		Adamsdale was a virtual unknown when he scooped the Fringe's top prize last year for his first ever show, a satire called Jackson's Way.
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /entertainment.cfm?id=1791042005 (306 words)

	Edinburgh Festivals - How I plotted Jackson's Way
		PTI is part of the jargon that Adamsdale, an actor who first came to the Fringe as a very English schoolboy, has built up for his alter-ego Jackson, American life-coach and motivational speaker.
		Adamsdale brought it to the Fringe after six months of serious development at the Battersea Arts Centre, where he has tested and reworked the show through the BAC’s Scratch Nights.
		Adamsdale, 30, is a Fringe habitué who first came here with a schoolboy acting company he founded and has been back several times, most notably with a monologue named Notes from the Underground.
	www.edinburgh-festivals.com /news.cfm?id=1007222004 (665 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Award hails 'unknown' comedy star
		Will Adamsdale won the prize for the best rising star at Edinburgh's Fringe for his self-help satire Jackson's Way.
		Adamsdale plays Chris John Jackson, a motivational speaker who satirises the worlds of self-help and corporate jargon.
		Adamsdale will now have a £7,500 prize and the comedy world at his feet.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/newsFeedXML/moreover/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3609070.stm (406 words)

	Brief encounter - Evening Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		VIEWERS will recognise Will Adamsdale from BBC TV's Manchild or with gardening sleuths Rosemary and Thyme on ITV.
		The character was born at Battersea Arts Centre - the same venue which spawned Jerry Springer: The Opera - and Jackson's Way will take to the stages of Melbourne and New York later this year.
		Adamsdale treated audiences at The Arches to two nights of his motivational chat earlier this week.
	www.eveningtimes.co.uk /lo/features/7017262.html (540 words)

	FRINGE REPORT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Jackson (Will Adamsdale) is a motivational speaker from the States who instructs the audience on his theory - The Jackson’s Way.
		Will Adamsdale doesn’t develop Jackson into a fully-rounded being — there’s nothing more known of him than his occupation as a motivational speaker.
		It would be easier to suspend one’s disbelief if Will Adamsdale had an accurate American accent.
	www.fringereport.com /0410jacksonsway.shtml (394 words)

	"Off-Off Online : Review Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		The story is all too common to the work- and playaholics who populate this modern age: Will (Will Adamsdale) holds down a fast-paced, deadline-heavy job in advertising.
		Adamsdale as Will, on the other hand, does an admirable job of maintaining a certain inner stillness amidst the hubbub, which gives his final descent into the rat race mentality a nearly tragic weight.
		The irony in all this is that as I walked to the theater, I saw the first pastel swaths of the day’s sunset draped over Central Park and considered the irresponsible joy of skipping the show to enjoy it.
	www.offoffonline.com /archives.php?id=438 (725 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - Perrier toasts unknown comic
		Adamsdale’s acting has been seen by a select few on the Fringe circuit and at the Battersea Arts Centre in London, where the hit show Jerry Springer the Opera and his own show, Jackson’s Way were born in creative sessions where performers test their work.
		Mr Adamsdale, 30, arrived in Edinburgh planning to test his work against a Fringe audience for a week.
		Will came as an unknown, playing to four people, and three weeks later everybody is talking about it.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1015052004 (438 words)

	BBC - Comedy - Edinburgh
		Will Adamsdale lives the Festival dream with his show 'Jackson's Way'.
		Actor Will Adamsdale was so unsure of his one man show he booked a theatre space in Edinburgh for just one week.
		Will received the £7,500 prize last night and now, in all likelihood, will be inundated with offers from the world of TV and Radio.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/edinburgh/news/2004/08/29/13980.shtml (237 words)

	Will Adamsdale: Jackson's Way, London - Whats On in London
		Will Adamsdale, a Perrier Award winner who took the judges by storm from relative obscurity at last year's Edinburgh Festival, returns to the Battersea Arts centre to perform his sucessful show Jackson's Way.
		Already achieving cult status, Adamsdale's inspired alter-ego Chris John Jackson is a motivational speaker on a mission to transform people¹s lives by getting them to attempt impossibly pointless tasks.
		Will Adamsdale: Jackson's Way - Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
	www.viewlondon.co.uk /whats_on_9263.html (166 words)

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		Fame being the burden and distancer that it is, few people can honestly claim to have had a Perrier winner press free tickets to his show upon them in the street.
		Adamsdale's show is called Jackson's Way, and I've got to admit, professional crazed jealousy aside, that I enjoyed it a lot.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=7519108&postID=109415848740716855 (494 words)

	Jackson's Way
		His format, although ridiculous to the extreme, will be painfully familiar to those who have had to endure an 'awareness' or team building course in their daily activities.
		Throughout the course of the evening every aspect of life coaching is subjected to ridicule; this is made all the funnier by the fact that Jackson is such a believable character.
		Whether consciously or not, Adamsdale seems to be parodying more than just the curious notion of life coaching.
	www.culturewars.org.uk /2005-01/jackson.htm (578 words)

	Perrier Award Winner Announced (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		With the Perrier Award under his belt Will Adamsdale is the current hottest name in comedy, yet at the beginning of August he was just another struggling actor with no comedy experience.
		Nica Burns, Director of the Award explained that despite Adamsdale being a newcomer to the comedy scene, the show was ‘so strong that it jumped over the Newcomers Award shortlist to go straight on to the main list’.
		Adamsdale received his award and a cheque for £7,500 from actor Christian Slater and is currently, I imagine, on cloud nine.
	www.paramountcomedy2.co.uk /news/news_detail.asp?news_ID=131 (491 words)

	Edinburgh 2004: Jackson's Way
		But Will Adamsdale, the man behind Chris John Jackson, has used the character for so much more than a predictable satire on this easiest of targets.
		Yet another stratum to this densely complex idea is the hint of dysfunction and madness that created Chris John Jackson in the first place; something involving a business park and his overbearing brother, that's satisfyingly never fully explained.
		But if you do 'get' it, the hour will be over far too quickly, and you'll want to jump straight back on the Jackson Express for another exhilarating ride.
	www.chortle.co.uk /edfest2004/jacksons.html (633 words)

	News: Perrier winner announced
		Newcomer Will Adamsdale has won this year’s Perrier award for his show Jackson’s Way.
		He receives £7,500 in prize money and will appear in a Perrier showcase at the West End, as will fellow nominees Chris Addison, Reginald D Hunter, Epitaph and Sarah Kendall.
		It is the creation of 30-year-old actor Will Adamsdale, who performs in the guise of American life coach Chris John Jackson.
	www.chortle.co.uk /news/aug04/perrier.htm (295 words)

	Perrier Comedy Awards London Season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Drawing on a wealth of life experiences not available to the current homogenised middle class pool of comics, Hodgson regales us with tales of his home town and the bizarre and wonderful characters there.
		A fast-paced barrage of bizarre humour, The Passion of Will Hodgson takes you to a world of West Country rednecks, 80’s Care Bears and childhood crushes on Miss Piggy.
		The most stunning Edinburgh comedy discovery – Jackson’s Way arrived at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe for one week as work in progress and left after three weeks trailing column inches of adulation and The Perrier Comedy Award.
	www.perriercomedyawards.com /london3.htm (353 words)

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		Part theatre, part comedy, Jackson's Way is a modern day parody of American motivational speakers and a satire on the world of self-help and corporate jargon.
		Join comedian and actor Will Adamsdale for perhaps the most surreal and thrilling hour you are likely to spend in a theatre.
		The runaway hit of the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe- Jackson's Way took audiences and critics by storm to become a comedy legend in its already short lifetime.
	www.thebigtickle.com /tickle/events/will.htm (152 words)

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		As well as a model, there will be teaching from Chris Nrirrinski, a Ruskin school art instructor.
		Oxford Origami's President will be running a special Valentine's Day origami event, teaching how to make paper hearts and even origami roses, as well as other innovative designs.
		Will originally brought Jackson's Way to Underbelly at the festival for a one week experiment, trying out the show in front of an audience in order to develop it further.
	users.ox.ac.uk /~kebl2148/artsweek/arts.html (619 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Award hails 'unknown' comedy star
		Adamsdale, 30, also played Nigel Havers' son in BBC TV series Manchild.
		Last year's winner was US comic Demetri Martin and previous winners include Al Murray, Dylan Moran, The League of Gentlemen, Jenny Eclair and Steve Coogan.
		Will Hodgson's show The Passion of the Hodgson won the best newcomer award.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/3609070.stm (406 words)

	Edinburgh Evening News - What's On - Funnyman gets serious for debate on world's festival cities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Last year's prize winner is joining a host of people from Scotland's arts world and media at the Napier University event tomorrow.
		Festival Cities of the Future will focus on the effects of festivals on cities, the benefits of hosting them and how to sustain them.
		It promises to be a lively and controversial debate and we are sure the panel will not hold back on voicing their experience."
	edinburghnews.scotsman.com /whatson.cfm?id=1791042005 (307 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Video: Warriors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I first watched this when it was aired on the BBC a few years ago and I have been meaning to buy it for a long time.
		Lets hope this film will remain a stark reminder of the horrific war crimes and ethnic cleansing that happened during that time and no doubt similar atrocities which still happen all over the world to this day.
		Having perosnally witnessed the aftermath of the conflict in the Balkans, and knowing that it could (and will) flare up again in the future, I found this story to be accurate, powerful and truly personal in places.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004D08G/imdb-uk (852 words)

	comedy cv - the UK's largest collection of comedians biogs and photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		In each episode Dr Adam Carey, GP and nutritionist to the England Rugby Team, along with Patricia Mitchell, life coach, will begin a journey with their client in their pursuit to change things that are making them stressed, unhappy or unhealthy.
		This inspirational and informative series will transform your life and is a fantastic opportunity for anyone that wants to change.
		Quite apart from the accolade of being the Babycham Funny Women Winner for 2005, Debra-Jane, receives a cheque for £2,000, she will also be invited back to Comedy Store for a paid gig and feature in the award winning showcase 'Funny Women at the Fringe' in Edinburgh during August.
	www.comedycv.co.uk (3652 words)

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