Daniel Kitson: Thrum - extra date

Daniel Kitson brings Thrum to the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre on Thursday 19 November, an extra date added to the show's run. Kitson is one of the circuit's most distinctive performers, and Thrum is billed as a new piece of storytelling from him. It's not a stand-up set in the usual sense; it's built around a stream of evocative, fragmented images that run through the hour, each one a starting point for where he takes the story.

Those images are the things that anchor the show: a plant pot, a woman on a train wearing a badge, a daffodil in December, a mark on a jumper, a massive tree in storage on a farm in Kent, a toilet in Hong Kong, and a coffee shop in Melbourne. They're the kind of small, specific observations that Kitson builds out from, and the hour moves between them rather than following a single, linear plot. The storytelling is punctuated by music, at least two funny voices, and upwards of three jokes — a modest way of describing it, perhaps, but it gives you a sense of the mix on stage.

If you've seen Kitson before, you'll know he's more of a writer than a gag-man, and Thrum sits right in that storytelling territory. It's a piece that gathers its momentum from those disparate images, pulling them together over the course of the hour. This Liverpool date is an extra performance, so it's a good chance to catch it if you've been following the tour and missed your first window.

It runs at the Liverpool Playhouse Theatre on Williamson Square, L1 1EL, on Thursday 19 November, starting at 7:30pm. Tickets are £14.00.