[Closed] PSA? Daniel Kitson is touring

This pleases Rob!

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Hello There.

Strap in Everyone.

Is Everyone Strapped In?

I’m serious ,if you aren’t fully strapped in we are not going anywhere.

Okay?

Okay.

So, over the course of this year (2013 – in case you didn’t know!!!!!!) I am probably going to be making* three new shows. There will almost certainly be new shows opening in Manchester and New York in the second half of the year. There’s also a couple of other bits and pieces including a possibility that I may perform - As of 1.52pm GMT on Friday April 27th 2012, This Show Has No Title - again for a week in London in the autumn and its looking unlikely that I will be in Edinburgh for the festival. As valued members of the Daniel Kitson Marketplace, I will of course keep you up to date with those things as and when they are confirmed. First though, Is this:-

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After the Beginning . Before the End

This is a very specific point in time.

I’ve been waiting to have the idea for this show for weeks, for months. A space held open in my head waiting for the idea. For months. I’ve done previews and I’ve booked the tour and I’ve stared at the internet and I’ve made chicken and I’ve tried not to worry. But the idea has not come and I have worried. I’ve worried and doubted and waited more and more and more. But then today, having dropped my dad off at the train station and met my friends for some coffee, Whilst driving home to write this (very overdue) brochure copy - dreading the thought of heaving half lies and optimistic promises into something vaguely intriguing but not developmentally restrictive - half way home, it happened. Somewhere between East London and South London - It arrived. The Idea. Just like that. Like a child, late home from school, oblivious to the worry and the panic and the phone calls. It just walked in and sat down like it wasn’t even a big deal. So now I’m typing this in my bedroom because the boy who lives next door is playing the James Bond theme on what I assume to be a trumpet.

And you have to trust me.

Two hours ago I didn’t have the idea. Now I do. And it’s going to be good.

Daniel Kitson – 7th February 2013

Something like a stand up show.

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So that’s the show. I’ll be doing work in progress shows for the next couple of months. Mainly in London - then in late March I’m going to Melbourne to do some low key work in progress shows at the Tuxedo Cat during the comedy festival – there will be 18 of those, a mix of late nights and Saturday mornings. Followed by a few nights in Sydney in their comedy festival and one in Perth, in theirs. And maybe a night in Darwin. I’m just sorting all that now, but I’ll send all the booking details in a separate email, super duper soon.** Seriously. Super Duper Soon.

But for now, everyone at Higgledy Piggledy Enterprises*** is delighted to be announcing this :-

After the Beginning . Before the End
Northern Hemisphere Tour 2013

May – 2013

8Th - Liverpool Playhouse - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
9th – Leeds City Varieties - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
11th – Brighton Theatre Royal - £10 (on sale tbc – part of Brighton Festival)
12th – Belfast MAC -£10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
13th – Lancaster, Dukes Playhouse - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
14th – Manchester Royal Exchange - £12 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
18th – Aldershot, West End Centre - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
19th – Nottingham Playhouse - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
20th – Bristol, Tobacco Factory - £10 (on sale 03/04/13)
22nd – Durham, Gala - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
23rd – Scarborough, Stephen Joseph Theatre £10 (on sale 25/02/13)
25th – Edinburgh, Lyceum – £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
26th – Coventry, Warwick Arts Centre - £10 (on sale 11/03/13)
27th – Norwich, Arts Cenre - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
28th – Newbury, Corn exchange - £10 (on sale 4/03/13 – earlier to members)
30th – Harrogate Theatre - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
31st – Sheffield Lyceum - £10.50 (on sale 18/03/13)

June – 2013

2nd – Cambridge Junction - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
3rd – Cardiff - £11.50 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
5th – Lincoln - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
8th – Oslo, Park Theatre – NOK130 (on sale soon)
9th – Oxford Playhouse - £12 (on sale 25/02/13)
10th – Taunton – TBC
11th – Leicester – Just the Tonic £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
12th – Birmingham, MAC – £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
14th – Hull Truck Theatre - £10 (on sale 26/02/13)
17th – Glasgow, The Arches - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
19th – Colchester Arts Centre - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
20th – Margate Theatre Royal - £10 (on sale 18/02/13 at 10am)
24th – Amsterdam, Toomler – E12.00 (on sale soon)
26th – Hebden Bridge Picture House -£10 (on sale tbc – part of hebden bridge arts festival)

July -2013

London – TBC
New York –TBC

And that’s it. I hope to do a short run in London and a similar thing in New York. And a couple of dates may be added to the tour, but that is largely it. Most of the dates go on sale on Monday morning.

So there you go, I hope this finds you well.

I'm off to bed.

Bye

* Writing/Learning/Saying outloud.
**People Of Australia - i will be in touch with the details about the work in progress shows, and before you get all crotchety about not getting the finished show, you got last years show all finished up real nice whereas my fellow country folk had to make do with me staring at notes and apologising. In the words of Daniel Larusso, "What goes around, Comes Around"
*** That is Me, Daniel John Kitson.