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Daniel Kitson

DANIEL KITSON

  (1977 - )
Nationality:    English
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The 38 years old English comedian, Daniel Kitson was born on 2nd of July in the year 1977 in a place called Denby Dale, West Yorkshire. His father was a lecturer and mother, a primary teacher. He started his comedy performances at the very young age of 16. He was a part of 'Scissett Middle School' and 'Shelley College' in Yorkshire, London. He studied drama at the same time in 'Roehampton Institute, which is known as 'Roehampton University' at today's time. Daniel was nominated for 'Perrier Comedy Award' in the year, 2001 at the 'Edinburgh Festival Fringe' for his number of shows like 'Love', 'Innocence' and 'The Word Cock'. Later in the year 2002, he won the same award for his show called 'Something'. He has self written and performed a number of 'story shows'. The very first was 'A Made Up Story' at the 'Edinburgh Festival Fringe' in 2003 which was serially followed by his other shows like 'Stories For The Wobbly Hearted' performed at the 'Melbourne International Comedy Festival' in the year 2005. The other shows were opened at the Traverse Theater for the same festival in year 2005 and were able to win a 'Scotsman Fringe First Award'. He made a tour throughout the UK, New York, Australia and Paris for his story show called 'C-90' and 'It's The Fireworks Talking'. Daniel won the Barry Award for his performance in 'It's Fireworks Talking' at the 'Melbourne International Comedy Festival'. Also, he achieved an 'Argus Angel Award' for C90 at the Brighton Festival in 2009. In 2008, he was busy performing shows and making tours throughout the year. He brought up a new stand up show called 'Where Once Was Wonder ' in March which has got all new story and is made up of three major stories about 'The Impossible'. In 2013, he made shows in the UK and Europe for his show 'After the Beginning. He has also got a reputed name and fame in the industry of television with his shining performances in comedy. He made very special appearances in 'That Peter Kay Thing', 'The Arena' and 'Phoenix Nights'. In 2007, various clips of Daniel were shown in '100 Greatest Stand Ups' where he ranked in the 27th position. He stood up to 23rd in the updated version. He started presenting in his own weekly-based radio show in the year 2006, called 'The Listening Club' which was focused in music. He talked about tells anecdotes, music and also responds to test messages sent by the listeners. Daniel initially began to present in radio when he was in Australia during the comedy festival held in Melbourne in 2005. His co-hosts were David O'Doherty, Courteney Hocking, Steve Hall and Andrew McClelland.

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         66A Church Road - A Lament, Made Of Memories And Kept In Suitcases         After the Beginning . Before the End         Analog.ue         As Of 1.52 Gmt On Friday 27th April 2012, This Show Has No Title         C-90         Impotent Fury Of the Privileged, The         Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church, The         It's Always Right Now, Until It's Later         Keep         Polyphony         Show for Christmas, A         Stories For the Wobbly Hearted         Tree         We Are Gathered Here
66A Church Road - A Lament, Made Of Memories And Kept In Suitcases

Synopsis:
astonishing images emerge from weather-beaten suitcases. Telling a funny, sad and nostalgic story of a forsaken flat. a broken heart. and the ache for home.

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Edinburgh Preview

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Higgledy Piggledy enterprises

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After the Beginning . Before the End

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"I've been waiting to have the idea for this show for weeks, for months. A space held open in my head waiting for the idea. For months. I've done previews and I've booked the tour and I've stared at the internet and I've made chicken and I've tried not to worry. But the idea has not come and I have worried. I've worried and doubted and waited more and more and more. But then today, having dropped my dad off at the train station and met my friends for some coffee, whilst driving home to write this (very overdue) brochure copy - dreading the thought of heaving half lies and optimistic promises into something vaguely intriguing but not developmentally restrictive - half way home, it happened. Somewhere between east London and South London - it arrived. the Idea. Just like that. Like a child, late home from school, oblivious to the worry and the panic and the phone calls. It just walked in and sat down like it wasn't even a big deal. So now I'm typing this in my bedroom because the boy who lives next door is playing the James Bond theme on what I assume to be a trumpet. And you have to trust me. Two hours ago I didn't have the idea. Now I do. And it's going to be good. - Daniel Kitson 07 Feb 2013

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Analog.ue

Synopsis:
A mess of cables. A mound of electronic junk. A single cassette player. And then ?Lights. Power Sockets. Audio Tape. Televisions. Vinyl. Neon Words. VCR Machines. Speaker cables. Amplifiers. At least one Ladder. Video Tape. Speakers. Super 8. Microphones. Projectors. And running..Lots and lots of running.

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As Of 1.52 Gmt On Friday 27th April 2012, This Show Has No Title

Synopsis:
Breathtaking at times, if not for Kitson's structural shenanigans then for wordplay and lyricism

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C-90

Synopsis:
It's Henry's last day at work. Surrounded by thousands of discarded or undelivered compilation tapes he will start, at last, to listen. and in the tapes he'll find unheard stories, stories about himself, about people he knows. about everything. a new show

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Impotent Fury Of the Privileged, The

Synopsis:
The world is a saddening mess, of unfathomable complexity and cruelty and yet rather than raging or weeping, most of us still manage to eat snacks, do crosswords and occasionally wash. An angry, frustrated and beautiful new show about wanting the world to change but not doing enough to change it.

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1st Produced:
The Playhouse, Oxford     04 May 2008

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Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church, The

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Gregory had fifty seven letters to write. He'd never written that many letters, not in one go. In fact, he'd never written a single letter and it was taking significantly longer than he'd anticipated. He'd started, full of optimism, curiously enough, at 9am and now here he was 8 hours later half way through letter twenty four. He glanced at his watch and then at the noose hanging over his head.Gregory sighed. Had he known how long suicide letters take, he thought, he wouldn't have cancelled the milk for the morning. a story about a death postponed by life.

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1st Produced:
Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh Festival Fringe)     2009

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

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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. 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.

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Keep

Synopsis:
A new show about how much past the present can usefully contain. About rigor and generosity. About postcards and hair pins and a certificate from Harry Ramsdens in Blackpool. About how long it takes to stop noticing where you are. About the compromise of a full life and the burden of a full heart and how it's impossible to know where looking back will lead. About the task of being who we are without denying who we've been. About the importance of regret and the possibility of hope and the delusional idea of starting again. About all the books I've never read and all the jam I've ever eaten and the bags of torn tickets and the drawers of empty pens and the inevitable sadness of ever holding on to anything. A show, in short, about the things in my house and the stuff in my head

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1st Produced:
Wardrobe Theatre, Bristol     8 Jan 2019

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Polyphony

Synopsis:
Ive written a play with a lot of parts. Each of them pre-recorded in isolation and will, when played back in precise unison, form a glorious theatrical polyphony. I just need enough people to press play. Thats all.

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1st Produced:
Roundabout @ Summerhall " 1 Summerhall, EH9 1PL (Roundabout) B0131 560 1581 V26 GG6 128, Edinburgh Festival Fringe     Aug 2015

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Daniel Kitson

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Show for Christmas, A

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In the winter of 1998 I was in my early twenties, living alone in London, and just beginning to get paid work as a comedian. I had spent, maybe a year, performing for food, evading train fares and surviving largely on the kindness of my parents. So, to me, for a while the Christmas party season seemed absolutely incredible. Come December, the bigger comedy clubs in London (block booked by office parties and charging maybe three times the usual admission) would pay comedians double the customary weekend rate and the gigs - drunken, messy, giddyingly lucrative - ran all week for the entire month - sometimes twice a night. At that time, my then agent booked what was a rowdy, demanding club in Shoreditch and I found myself fast tracked with unwarranted velocity to the role of compere. I could not believe my luck - back then, twenty two years old, desperate to get better, stage time was all I wanted, and this particular type of stage time - high status crowd control, the management of rowdy rooms rammed with volatile, conflicting energy and the intermittent dodging of cracker toys, thrown by an office manager - felt like an utterly exhilarating place to be. I felt like I was being toughened by it, like I was getting harder and faster and better and that somehow, something important was being forged in that cold fire of drunken disinterest. And maybe it was. I don't know. But over time, over years, I found it harder and harder to find glory in the battle. I took less and less pleasure in the collective drunken lunacy, the parade of paper hats, the bulk bought crackers and in wrangling this orgy of c***s to cheer at the right time. I could feel my delight dwindling, overcome with a burgeoning disdain for everyone involved, myself included. I was just starting to build an audience of my own and I didn't want them to come there and see me like that. I didn't want to be there, being like that. So I stopped. Now, this show isn't actually about any of that but it serves to explain my surprise when, in late spring of 2014, Shelley from Battersea Arts Centre asked if I wanted to make a Christmas Show and I found myself thinking: - Yes, oddly, I really do. I may wear a costume and there might be snow in it.

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Stories For the Wobbly Hearted

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It's described as a collection of joyous, intimate, funny, sad, poignant, and life affirming stories told by lamplight
nytheatre.com

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Tree

Synopsis:
It's early evening. it's mid autumn. It's starting to get dark. And on a quiet residential street somewhere in England, a man with a picnic basket, arrives at a tree.

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show about dissent, commitment, two people and a tree

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We Are Gathered Here

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Durham's Gala Theatre     06 Nov 2009

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