I initially wrote The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church for the 2009 Edinburgh Festival and performed it at the Traverse Theatre most days at 10.15pm. Over the course of that run, celebrity columnist Stewart Lee walked out *** and Newscaster Jeremy Paxman visibly failed to stay awake.

I really liked the show, it was a storytelling show and comfortably my best up until that point,  It was deceptively simple but satisfyingly complicated, it was funny and sad, there was a bit of mystery in it and, i thought, when i did it right, it was quite exhilarating. 
 
I next performed the show in January of 2011 at St Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn, New York (no big deal). They built me a little square of 200 raked seats in the middle of a huge warehouse and it was, to be completely honest, a pretty magical time. During that run art house musician types, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson slept soundly in the second row for ninety minutes.  
 
I then toured the show to Australia, during which run, I am proud to say, not one cultural touchstone fell asleep or left, at pace, to defecate.
 
After that I brought the show back to the UK and toured it about for a few more months. At some point in that time, I contacted Chris Evans at Go Faster Stripe**** about the possibility of filming the show. It was the longest tour I’d ever done. I was proud of the show. It seemed worth trying to make a decent record of it.
 
Anyway, we emailed a bit, I lost my nerve and found my nerve and had my doubts and made big statements about ownership and whether I wanted to put it out and if so, then how and then we filmed it, on the 11th May 2011, at the Tobacco Factory Theatre in Bristol in the round with eight cameras.
 
Chris had agreed that if I didn’t like the edit, we wouldn’t put it out, he would forward me all the footage and the various sound recordings and if I wanted to have a crack at editing it myself, I could.
 
Well here we are – the best part of a decade and the early parts of a pandemic later – and I have just about got it finished. So, next week, from Monday the 18th, I’m going to introduce it and screen it, online.
 
Now, I’m doing this in what may strike you as a needlessly contrary way and, lets be honest, it could well be but it’s also, I think, a pretty fun and exciting way to do it. So here are the details.
 
 - I am going to introduce (this bit will be live) and then screen the show at 9pm every night, Monday to Friday and at 11am on Saturday and Sunday.
 
- There will be three screenings a day – 9pm in the UK, 9pm in Melbourne and 9pm in New York. And then at the weekend – 11am in the UK, 11am in Melbourne and 11am in New York.
 
- You can view the screenings from anywhere in the world, you don’t have to be local to the specific time zone – which is to say – you could feasibly watch the Melbourne screenings in London and the New York screenings in Melbourne and so on.
 
- The capacity of each screening will be limited according to the number of seats in the venue at which I performed this show in those places. So -
 
UK- Tobacco Factory Theatre, Bristol -  356 seats
MELBOURNE - Fairfax Studio, Arts Centre, Melbourne – 376 seats
NEW YORK – St Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn – 200 seats.
 
- Tickets will cost £5 (or local equivalent)
 
- All the money will go to The Angel Comedy Micro Bursary Fund – This is a new initiative being operated by Angel Comedy to support comedians who have lost work during the lockdown and throughout this ongoing, circuit decimating, diary clearing, livelihood buggering mess.*****
 
- Tickets will go on sale at 12 noon on Friday May 15th.  
 
- Melbourne tickets go on sale at Noon in Melbourne, New York tickets go on sale at Noon in New York and UK tickets go on sale at Noon in the UK.
 
 - You can buy tickets here - https://www.citizenticket.co.uk/organiser/daniel-kitson/

- You will need to create a citizen ticket account, in order to get your ticket. It will be emailed to you as soon as you complete the purchase.  There will be a button that says "Access Online Event". This button will be activated on the day of the screening, 30 minutes before the Start Time on your ticket. When you click on it, you will receive a link and a password - you click on the link and you enter the password and that's you in. 
 
And that’s it.