So I have a lot of work to do.Opening Night....
After fighting public transport, (No time for that here, yet), the first night, I rushed into town to see "Jimeoin", An Irish Comic. I had intended to see Daniel Kitson but the very late once an hour train (rant rant) had meant I missed it!
However on arrival at the box office I was told Daniel was doing a 10pm Late show, hurrah, so I got my ticket for Jimeoin to ponder seeing Daniel after.
Jimeoin has very observational material but it was all fresh , interesting and funny stuff. Although he has quite a soft voice, he managed to capture the audience for the whole show.
Comedians with guitars on stage usual worry me, I think musical comedy is very hard and have heard some very unfunny bizarre songs in my time. Just because a comedian can play a guitar, sometimes they feel the need to use it in their act.
However! It was used for a some great observations about songs and a quite a clever "That for coming to see the show" song that was recorded into a loop machine and played out while we left.
If the night had ended there, I would have been content with my comedy fix. I was fired up for more so I got a ticket for Daniel Kitson and went straight back to the same theatre.
Kitson was stunning, he's been a round for a while but I have never seen him. He is a UK comic living in London. The show was "The Impotent Fury of the Privileged" and was a fantastically written series of stories which progress, digressed and ended up closing the opening story.Kitson is a born story teller, even his stammer (Which we are informed he has done loads of amazing material on in the past) does not get in the way in the slightest. The audience are spot on with laughting at the lines and be patient with the stammer.
Alot of his material he talked about was in London so very easy for me to recognise and picture the things he described.
I would go and see this same show again at the drop of a hat, so beautifuly was it presented and written.
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