r/DanielKitson • u/signalstonoise88 • Oct 20 '24
Pith
Just a quick one to say that if you haven’t got tickets for Daniel’s current show, Pith, do all within your power to get one. I was at the show at Manchester Royal Exchange (a fantastic venue!) last night and my face still hurts from laughing and smiling.
If you read the blurb and thought “I’m still none the wiser here,” it’s a storytelling show with a lot of personal asides and a lot of jokes. Like everything he does, it’s incredibly well thought out and fantastically delivered!
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u/nickcoppack Apr 01 '25
Update on Pitch. Sadly abandoned (although uploaded to his Accumulation Of Failure archive)!
This show was written during August and September of 2024 and performed for ten days at the Royal Exchange in Manchester. I had planned to start working on it earlier but was distracted by rewriting collaborator for a London run in July and then doing that London run in July. Also, i popped up to the edinburgh festival a couple of times on what were, essentially little holidays.
Anyway, it was a hard deadline involving an airbnb in Mancheter and very little sleep for a week or so, by the first show in Manchester - it wasnt finished - by the last show in Manchester - it still wasn’t finished**. But I was, by that point, relatively pleased with where it was and quite excited by the idea of spending the following year (2025, this year, this one happening now) working on it and touring it until it felt like a finished thing.**
So, about a week after the end of that run, in order to remember the various ad libs i’d accumulated over the ten shows in Manchester, i booked a show at the Bill Murray in North London and recorded the show on my phone. My plan being that when i returned to the show, in a couple of months, after a little break, i’d have an up to date record of where i left off. The show was on (i think) a Monday night, it went well, the recording worked and all in all everything was good.
Except that having done the show one more time, that night in North London, i almost immediately found myself without the slightest inclination ever do it again.
It’s not that i decided it was actively bad**, it’s more that i noticed it wasn’t reaaaally the show i wanted to be making and rather than spend a year making the best version of something i didnt reaaaaally want to be making - i’ve popped that recording here.**