Double bill – Book tickets for Ed Gaughan – Words & Music at 9pm and Kafka’s Ape at 7pm for only £18. Discount will be applied automatically on standard priced tickets.
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Come and discover UK comedy’s best kept secret! First solo show in 19 years from award-garnering idiot.
Over many years Ed has written, directed and performed work for and with many of the UK’s most loved comedians, sketch teams and clowns, including Milton Jones, Josie Long, Will Adamsdale, Barry Cryer, Pappy’s and Spymonkey. He’s also the voice of Baron Greenback in Dangermouse, Gideon in Sky TV’s Brassic and co-creator & star of the BAFTA nominated movie ‘Skeletons’, which won ‘The Michael Powell Award For Cinema’ at Edinburgh Film Festival. Ed is a ‘Peter Sellers Comedy Award’ nominee.
As a musician Ed has performed numerous gigs including Glastonbury, London Jazz and Porto Jazz Festivals and as a composer for stage, screen and audio. (Most recently scoring ‘Hamlet’ for Shakespeare’s Globe)
Words and Music is about a trip Ed took to the doctor, and what he found out was so utterly …
But hang on, before we get to that: he needs to tell you about growing up in an immigrant Irish family who test the limits of eccentricity, workshops with young offenders and brushes with national treasures.
Words and Music starts like conventional standup, before mining stranger territory, bordering on the Kafkaesque. A shaggy dog story where the dog may not even be a canine.
“Original and intelligent, if Ed Gaughan doesn’t already have a cult fan base they should really set one up’ – ✶✶✶✶ Metro
“Eccentric, heartfelt and very funny”✶✶✶✶ Guardian
“A surreal hybrid of theatre, stand up comedy and jazz concert. hysterical” ✶✶✶✶ Independent
Tickets: £11/ £13/ £15 from oldfirestation.org.uk
Part of the Humanities Division's Programme for #OxfordReadsKafka | Two award-winning shows translate Kafka's dark parable of un-belonging for the modern day. Kafka's story 'A Report for an Academy' finds its way into blistering explorations of race and migration, and grownup reflections on aging, migration, and humanimal agency, at the same time metamorphising prose into drama and stand-up comedy. Kafka as you've never seen or heard him before.
