Christmas.

So, two Christmas things and do try to bear in mind that It’s now four and a half weeks until Christmas which makes this not as premature as it possibly feels.

The first thing is that I’m doing three performances of A Show For Christmas at the Alexandra Palace Theatre on the first three Mondays of December.  If you’re unfamiliar with the theatre it’s very very lovely and if you’re unfamiliar with the show, here is the blurb, it should tell you everything you need to know:

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A Show For Christmas.

Written and Performed by Daniel Kitson.

It’s 4.52pm on Wednesday the twenty fourth of December when Pollyanna Plunket, briefly distracted by opening a bag of toffees – glances away from the road for no more than a second only to find, upon looking back that an old man,, from nowhere made his way to the middle of the street. She hits the horn, the man turns, she stamps hard on the brakes and whilst the vehicle, a mid sized motorhome – does slow down, it does not stop. Skidding on, over glistening black tarmac, careering into the old man –making no visible attempt to move - rooted to the spot, bent over under the weight of a battered red bag - the inevitable impact flipping him up over the bonnet and into the windscreen – his eyes oddly calm as they meet hers for a moment before he slumps down the glass, rolling back off the bonnet and out of sight.

A story about Possibility,Magic, Grief, Hope, Tradition and Toffees.

Christmas, basically.

In 2014 Daniel Kitson was asked by Shelley Hastings at the Battersea Arts Centre if he might want to write a Christmas show and, much to his surprise, he did.  It was performed that Christmas for five nights, in the Grand Hall at BAC and for fourteen nights the following Christmas at the Connelly Theatre in New York before touring the UK in December of 2017.

This December, to mark the release of the story on Vinyl, CD and Cassette, the show will be restaged for three nights only in the extremely lovely surroundings of the Alexendra Palace Theatre.

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There you go, tickets are £15 including all the fees and levys and so on and should be onsale by the time you’re reading this – You can get them by clicking HERE.

The second thing Christmas thing is that the Christmas records and CDs have arrived at my house, are filling my guest room and everything (remarkably) is on schedule for me to start posting orders out at the start of December. Also, I was able to order a few more of each, in case anyone didn’t want to think about Christmas in July but would now quite like a copy. So there’s limited availability of all formats and just to reiterate: All physical items come with a download code and the story will be available to buy as a download (without any physical purchase) from the First of December, I’ll send a separate email about that, on the first. But for now, you can place your orders for physical stuff - HERE

There we go.

That’ll do.

Coffee Time.