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Some Things That I am Doing (Relatively) Soon.
Hello Everyone.
I have three (3) specific announcements and then a few vague, heads up type things. I had wanted to wait until I had all the vaguery done and dusted and announce everything at the same time so as not to repeatedly delight you with email after email of intimate* and personal** chit chat***. Unfortunately three of the things are now onsale – so I need to tell you otherwise they will have ALL SOLD OUT**** by the time I tell you.
So – Firstly, I am doing the benefit gig in Wolverhampton for Tom Parrys old youth theatre which I basically do every year. It’s at the Grand theatre in Wolverhampton on the 5th of June. It’s always a fun show but this years bill is really very good. It’s David O’doherty, Rose Matafeo, Tom Parry, Darren Harriot, John Robins and Tom Allen.
I will be compering, as ever, opening the show with a level of confidence in my own ability that will absolutely flummox and alienate an audience who don’t know, trust, or like me. Before winning them round over the course of the night into a mild but constant antipathy.
It’s a lot of fun, it’s for a good thing, it’s a great bill and, for once, you’ll get to watch me surrounded by people who don’t think I’m A Holy Genius Christ Figure ™
You can get tickets here - https://www.grandtheatre.co.uk/whats-on/the-hilarity-charity-gala/
Secondly*****, Keep, the show I wrote for Battersea Arts Centre at the start of the year and then toured around Australia for a couple of months, is going to be in Liverpool Everyman and Northern Stage (in Newcastle) during September and October respectively. The Newcastle shows are on general sale now and the Liverpool ones go on general sale next Tuesday but the below link will be live from today, for you guys (and I guess, anyone else who tries it, anyway) here are the dates and links for tickets and more information.
Liverpool Everyman Theatre – September 17th to 21st- www.everymanplayhouse.com/keep
Northern Stage – October 15th to 19th - https://www.northernstage.co.uk/Event/daniel-kitson-keep
That’s the end of the confirmed bits, now the heads up stuff:
- Me and Gavin Osborn are going to write something for a one off show in Regents Park this summer, it’ll either be 21st or 7th of July depending on other stuff and will be confirmed by next week.
- I am in the last bits of logistics and negotiations to take Keep to Washington DC at the end of November before going on St Anns Warehouse in New York for December. This should all be done within a couple of weeks.
- There are also potentially a few other north American dates for Keep, which again, I’ll know in the next couple of weeks.
But more information to follow on all of those things. As soon as they are confirmed, I’ll start frantically typing at you, begging you to buy tickets and fund my various unsavoury enthusiasms.
In terms of Edinburgh, I have no venue or time slot or show and yet still, for some reason, feel like I am going to go. If I do pull something together (which I may well not) I will obviously let you know. I dare say that’s infuriating for a handful of you with spread sheets and travel dates – but that’s all I know for now. Sorry about that.
I do hope this makes sense, I’ve been falling asleep a lot whilst writing it due to being a breakfast radio DJ and it now being 2pm (aka naptime for cool guys).
GOODBYE FOREVER.
Daniel
* - Deliberately constructed
** - Manipulative
*** - Marketing campaigns.
**** - Tickets available for all shows.
***** - And thirdly, actually.
Breakfast Radio is my Natural Home.
Hello Ding Dongs.
Last year, in May, i did three or four weeks of radio shows between 7 and 9 am on the London based but globally available community arts radio station - Resonance FM. It was a lot of fun - i got to get up early, ride my bike into town, let myself into an empty building and play songs i liked or had never heard before for a couple of hours, whilst having a bit of chat in between songs like how Radio disc Jockeys do* - You get me?
Well, you’ll never bloody well guess what - i’m only bloody doing it again aren’t I?
Starting on Monday 6th of May - Monday to Friday (Not wednesdays) 7-9am on Resonance FM.
You can find it here
It wont be repeated or on listen again or anything - it’s just happening when its happening and thats it.
GOODBYE FOREVER
*There was one day where i didn’t say anything actually, apart from goodbye after two hours of banging jams - because i am constantly pushing the form/deep into some heavy vibes.
People Of Australia
People of Australia*
I am bringing my new show Keep to your wide brown land. I’ve not been over there for two years and I haven’t brought a new, but finished thing for YONKS.
This show, I can confirm is both new and finished. It’s neither a work in progress stand up show (like in 2017) or an ambitious new piece with absolutely baffling technical issues (like in 2015). It’s new. Sure. But its finished. Amazing.
I tried it out on these dumb northern hemisphere chumps, and spent a month at Battersea Arts Centre, making it very good actually, thank you.
Sorry to toot my own pipe.
Not really for me to say.
But.
Toot. Toot. Toot.
I am genuinely, very excited to bring it over there and I really enjoy doing the show, which I guess is all irrelevant to you but excellent news for me in terms of the next couple of months.
So.
Here is the blurb for the show,
I’m going to put in italics.
Get ready
Here:
A new show about how much past the present can usefully contain. About rigor and generosity. About postcards and hair pins and a certificate from Harry Ramsdens in Blackpool. About how long it takes to stop noticing where you are. About the compromise of a full life and the burden of a full heart and how it’s impossible to know where looking back will lead. About the task of being who we are without denying who we’ve been. About the importance of regret and the possibility of hope and the delusional idea of starting again. About all the books I’ve never read and all the jam I’ve ever eaten and the bags of torn tickets and the drawers of empty pens and the inevitable sadness of ever holding on to anything.
About, in short, the stuff in my house and the thoughts in my head
All tickets are onsale now, all tickets are $25 and here are the dates. You can buy tickets and find times (there are various ones) on the relevant links.
Perth – Subiaco Arts Centre - March 4-6th
https://www.ptt.wa.gov.au/venues/subiaco-arts-centre/whats-on/keep-by-daniel-kitson/
Adelaide – Scott Theatre – March 8th- 13th (not 11th)
https://adelaidefringe.com.au/fringetix/daniel-kitson-keep-af2019
Brisbane – Qpac – March 15th and 16th.
https://www.qpac.com.au/event/daniel_kitson_19/
Sydney – Seymour Centre – March 19th - 23rd
https://www.seymourcentre.com/events/event/keep-by-daniel-kitson/
Melbourne – Malthouse – March 28th – April 21st. (Not Mondays)
https://malthousetheatre.com.au/whats-on/keep-by-daniel-kitson
The show is two hours long. With no latecomers. And. No readmission.
Okay?
You’re adults right?
Besides that, I would advise not reading about the show before hand, not simply because it got an old fashioned kicking in the papers based largely (although not exclusively) on a pretty shonky first night but also because knowing as little as you can on the way in is best for maximum fun times (Motto #29)
And I want you to have maximum fun times.
Is that a crime?
Possibly actually.
Sounds creepy now im reading out loud in my house to no-one.
Anyway – there you go. That’s all you need to know.
Also, guys, do me a solid and tell other people yeah? I used to be a big deal over there but I’m not any more and its all happening quite soon and I wouldn’t mind
SHIFTING
SOME
UNITS
So. If you’ve got friends who used to come and watch my shows before they had kids or I pushed the boundaries of the form to breaking point, do let them know that D machine is back in town, taking names*** and blowing minds****
I am getting very excited about this jaunt*****now that I have nearly sorted the freight (not a euphemisim) and I cant wait to hire bikes and drink coffee and fill my face with gaytimes.
Grow up.
GOODBYE FOREVER.
Daniel
* And people who will be in Australia at the time but aren’t actually OF** Australia
**This sentence feels dangerously close to true blue hate speech but is actually just logistical clarity for marketing purposes. Fine line. Fine. Line.
*** I will not be taking names.
**** Kaboom.
***** Work trip.