Alex Kealy announces Winner Takes All tour
- Alex Kealy is to tour his stand-up show Winner Takes All in March and April
- The show sees him focusing on Silicon Valley technology companies and the monopolies they hold
Alex Kealy is to tour his stand-up show Winner Takes All in March and April.
Following a date at London's Soho Theatre at the end of this month, the tour starts in Oxford in March and runs through to a gig in Bristol at the end of April.
Talking about the premise, his promoters say: "Embarking on his latest national tour after an acclaimed sell-out Edinburgh Fringe run, Alex Kealy, the 'rising star of the British stand-up scene' (The List) explores Silicon Valley tech monopolies, advertising and addiction through his 'perfectly expressed gags' (Chortle).
"Big Tech firms have all pivoted to business models involving advertising, surveillance, addiction and monopoly, reneging on their previous idealistic visions of what the internet could achieve. Alex Kealy is determined to document this because it's the big political tussle of the 21st century and, crucially, not because he recently had a break-up and his ex works at Google.
"Now, comedy's most conflict-averse satirist dares to suggest that perhaps a small clique of companies exercising the greatest level of monopoly control since the robber barons of the 1880s over the vital industries of the future is potentially slightly sub-ideal.
"Can we break free form their stranglehold? Probably not. But maybe there are things we can learn from these Stakhanovite Silicon Valley founders like Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Twitter's new wokefinder general and Tesla's top banana Elon Musk? While writing this show, like those Palo Alto Tech bros and their hustler 'grindsets', Kealy has been getting up every day at 4am (California time, so about midday GMT - it's not been very taxing)."
Tour dates
Monday 30 Jan, 2023
Soho Theatre, London
Weds 1 March, 2023
Common Ground, Oxford
Sat 4 March, 2023
Cambridge, The Junction
Weds 15 March, 2023
Brighton, Komedia
Mon 3 April, 2023
Edinburgh, Monkey Barrel
Thurs 13 April, 2023
Bath, Rondo Theatre
Wednesday 19 April, 2023
Belfast, Accidental Theatre
Fri 21 April, 2023
Maidenhead, Norden Arts Centre
Sun 23 April, 2023
Reading, South Street Arts Centre
Thurs 27 April, 2023
Bristol, The Alma Theatre
For additional information and booking links see alexkealy.com