MY SHORTLIST

SUBSCRIBE TO E-NEWS

Receive Festival updates by email

SUPPORT THE FESTIVAL more

CALENDAR 2 - 20 MARCH 2011

28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20

select a day

Bookmark and Share

When

Tue8 Mar 8pm 
Wed9 Mar 8pm 
Thu10 Mar 8pm 
Fri11 Mar 8pm 
Sat12 Mar 8pm 

Where

Herald Theatre, Aotea Centre

Tickets

A Res$57.50
A Res Friend$52.50
A Res Conc$52.50
A Res Group 10$52.50
B Res$47.50
B Res Conc$42.50

Duration

1 hr 30 mins (no interval)

The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church

Daniel Kitson, UK

Sorry this event has been and gone.

Multi award-winning comedian and storyteller Daniel Kitson's critically acclaimed show tells the sad and funny story of Gregory Church, his life and his deferred death.

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 eight hours later halfway 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.


The story of a death postponed by life.

Daniel Kitson, multi award-winning comedian, storyteller and keen culinary hobbyist returns to New Zealand for the first time since 2003 with "an inspired fictional anecdote that flowers into an unobtrusive masterpiece of modern lowkey storytelling" (The Scotsman). This critically acclaimed show tells the sad and funny story of Gregory Church, his life and his deferred death.

www.danielkitson.com

REVIEWS

"hugely entertaining, wickedly funny and wonderfully life affirming"

- NZ Herald (NZ). Read the full review online.

 

"eccentric, far-fetched and unbelievably good."

- The Telegraph (UK)

 

"Kitson's genius emerges, once again. Interminably talented, and staggeringly good."

- The List (UK)

IF YOU LIKE THIS SHOW, YOU MAY LIKE:

Gaff Aff

Samuel Beckett: First Love

La Odisea