I wanted to put something amazing where you wouldn’t expect to find it. To take the first moments of the morning and fill them with something silly and sad and wonderful. Something audacious in its scope and scale. Something to make you laugh and cry and wonder before the world even knows you’re awake. Something to stuff your hearts full and send you out, into the day and into the world, wet eyed and open mouthed. Read more …
This is a show about every single one of us, the past in our pockets, the future in our hearts and us, ourselves; very much stuck, trapped forever, in the tiny eternal moment between the two.
And, it’ll all be over in time for lunch.
“Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon everything is different.” Calvin (and Hobbes)
One of the best, and best written, one-man shows I've ever seen.
This is the rarest of Fringe combinations, both funny and profound.
This is a show that is well worth getting out of bed for and a wonderful way to start a day.
Joyous and spellbinding
Once again, Kitson proves himself a magnificent chronicler of the great, vast, unsung English lover middle class.
His defiant blend of sentiment and cynicism, and above all his relish of language, are to the fore as always.
This may be Kitson's masterpiece.
It's riveting, revitalising stuff.
Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh from Tuesday August 10, 2010, until Sunday August 29, 2010. 10.00am. Tickets: £12 (£10 concessions). More info: www.traverse.co.uk