Comedy news: Show preview: Tim Key and Jonny Sweet head to Soho Theatre

After hugely successful sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Tim Key and Jonny Sweet are set to bring their Edinburgh Comedy Award winning shows to the Soho Theatre this February.

Tim Key’s new show is a confused procession of idiosyncratic poetry and prose arranged into a brittle, theatrical and precarious 55 minute performance.

On the back of his last show (The Slut In The Hut – total sellout Edinburgh Fringe 2007) Key’s first  book was published (25 Poems, 3 Recipes and 32 Other Suggestions) and he became resident poet on  Charlie Brooker’s Screenwipe and Newswipe (BBC Four) and Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better (BBC Radio 4). 
 
Two years on he has matured, filled out and got a new suit (designed himself and made in Shanghai).

This show is even weightier than the last. The poetry, too, is augmented with other disciplines.

There is music, high-drama, yelling, a fight and mind-reading or escapology. He has also been collaborating with director J Van Tullenken on some short, experimental film pieces presented during the show.

At the Edinburgh Fringe, Key performed in the Pleasance Beside (80 seats). At the Soho Theatre he’s in the main auditorium (150 seats). In this, and in every way, the show will be 87.5% more ambitious.