Live Comedy
Simon Evans: Have We Met?
The fragmentation and disintegration of memory is inevitable as one gets ever deeper into middle age. Simon Evans, 58 by the time he hits the road, has been mining that seam for some years now. His endless migrations up and down the stairs and through the caverns of his own mind in pursuit of elusive quarries have defined his recent work.
And a failing memory can be a blessing when we have so much we'd like to quietly forget.
But when that collapsing memory encounters a life-long dedication to procrastination and industry standard levels of ADD coming the other way up the pavement of life, they can easily spend the rest of the day politely unable to get past one another.
Have We Met? sees Simon determined to lock horns with the spectre of memory and wrestle its incorporeal form to the floor. To be the Proust, the Joyce, the Maurice Chevalier & Hermione Gingold of stand-up. And something else. It will come to me. Bear with.
2023 dates
Friday 15 September: Tenbury Wells, The Regal
Saturday 16 September: Tring, Court Theatre
Wednesday 20 September: Launceston, Town Hall
Thursday 21 September: Great Torrington, Plough Arts Centre
Friday 22 September: Exeter, Corn Exchange
Saturday 23 September: Dorchester, Thomas Hardye Theatre
Thursday 28 September: Pocklington, Arts Centre
Friday 29 September: Stamford, Corn Exchange
Friday 6 October: Bakewell, Town Hall
Saturday 7 October: Coalville, Century Theatre
Saturday 14 October: Bristol, Redgrave
Wednesday 18 October: Loughborough, Town Hall
Friday 20 October: Bury St Edmunds, The Apex
Thursday 2 November: Grantham, Guildhall Arts Centre
Friday 3 November: Norwich, Playhouse
Saturday 4 November: Tunbridge Wells, Trinity Theatre
Friday 17 November: Tiverton, TCAT
Saturday 18 November: Hedge End, The Berry
Friday 24 November: Faversham, The Apex
Sunday 3 December: Evesham, Town Hall