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Daniel Kitson: It’s the Fireworks Talking
- Pavillion Theatre, Brighton
- 28 February 2007
Although not as life-changing as his story-telling gigs, Kitson’s new show is as intimate and inventive as ever
Loneliness, despair, futility, and, most of all, just 'being a dick' – these are the existential perils that still frighten 29-year-old Perrier winner Daniel Kitson. He gives us moving, autobiographical reflections on the elusiveness of genuine intimacy in a superficial world, interspersed with jokes about approaching a stranger in a supermarket and asking, "how about a finger-bang?" Somehow, neither element feels out of place.
Kitson's stand-up shows are neither as ambitious nor as unique as his life-changing
theatrical monologues, and he could drop the disappointingly conventional
material about British beach habits. But niggling aside, this beardy curmudgeon
remains one of the greatest talents in UK comedy: an expert joke-teller,
but also far more. Even when he forgets to be funny, it doesn't matter,
because he has all the imagination and intelligence of a great novelist
– albeit a great novelist who loves to say "cock".
Ned Beauman
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