Stand-up show by BBC Radio 4 stalwart Simon Evans, looking at the future of technology and the pleasures of his youth.
Simon Evans brings his stand-up show Staring at the Sun to Exeter Corn Exchange on Friday 27 November. Evans is a BBC Radio 4 regular and a comedian with about a quarter-century of acclaimed work behind him, and this one finds him squinting at an uncertain future while looking back at the blue remembered hills of his youth.
Much of the show is built around the tension between where we're headed and where we've come from. He looks ahead to the coming shockwaves of technology — with the AI singularity looming and reality feeling increasingly unstable — and then back to the analogue pleasures of hitch-hiking, pub bets and getting properly lost. He draws on theories propounded by philosophers and mystics since the days of Plato and Ecclesiastes, casting himself as a public intellectual, but he undercuts those points with brutally funny domestic truths. It's that shift from the high-minded to the mundane that gives the show its shape.
Critics have been generous with it: The Scotsman called it 'a masterclass', Chortle described it as 'outstanding' and The Times went with 'dynamite'. If you've followed his work on Radio 4, you'll recognise the voice, but this is a full evening on stage.
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It runs on Friday 27 November, with the show starting at 7:30pm and doors opening at 6:45pm. Tickets are £21, which includes a £1 booking fee. The venue is the Exeter Corn Exchange on Market Street, EX1 1BW.
