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It's Always Right Now, Until it's Later

Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh
From: Tuesday, 10th August 2010
To: Sunday, 29 August 2010

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

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Synopsis

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.

Our Review: starstarstarstarstar

Michael Coveney - 13 August 2010

Daniel Kitson, the bearded bard of the everyday extraordinary, has excelled himself. He wanted, he says, to fill the first moments of the morning with something silly and sad and wonderful.

He’s done that, and more: leaner, faster, gesticulating with controlled dramatic effect, he tells the parallel stories of William and Caroline, who had a moment, a nano-second, of shared epiphany when they passed each other at a bus stop; otherwise their lives diverge, and spool backwards, into separate universes.

Beckett says we are born astride the grave. Kitson defies mortality, seizes the moment and lights up the transient sky with his novelistic riffs and descriptive anecdotes in a cosmology of light bulbs.

Each bulb, each star, burns brighter as he illuminates each moment. It’s a deeply moving, absorbing and utterly brilliant performance; I’d say, one of the best, and best written, one-man shows I’ve ever seen.

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