STWERT
LEE – JULY 2009 ....
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OCTOBER/NOVEMBER TOUR ON
SALE....
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MOST OF EDINBURGH AUGUST
TICKETS ALREADY SOLD....
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www.stewartlee.co.uk www.myspace.com/stewlee....
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1)
If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One – Edinburgh....
2)
If You Prefer A Milder Comedian, Please Ask For One – Autumn tour....
3) London
Circuit Live dates....
4)
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle on DVD....
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1) IF YOU PREFER A MILDER
COMEDIAN, PLEASE ASK FOR ONE ....
… is the title of the new live stand-up show. It will
be run in at The Stand, Edinburgh, Weds 5th Aug – Sunday 30th
Aug, not 17th, 7.45, £10. This is a relatively small room and over half the seats are
now sold.....
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STEWART
LEE....
IF
YOU PREFER A MILDER COMEDIAN, PLEASE ASK FOR ONE....
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Work
in progress, towards a new touring show, from the comedian currently
fashionable amongst broadsheet newspaper critics due to his BBC2 series Stewart
Lee’s Comedy Vehicle. ....
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Stew
says, “In this show, an account of something that happened to me in a coffee
shop will be used as a convenient framing device for disparate material possibly
concerning English Heritage, Top Gear, The Olympics, emigration, prawns, Bella
Pasta, The National Trust, farmers, DH Lawrence, piglets, cathedrals, bees,
Iggy Pop, cider adverts, riots etc etc.”....
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As
usual, expect …....
1) Some
punchy stuff near the top....
2) inexplicable
hostility towards relatively innocuous figures....
3) silences....
4) repetition....
5) sudden
and/or gradual shifts in tone, velocity and volume ....
6) long
routines experimenting with form rather than content....
7) the
possibility of failure....
8) a quasi-serious bit at the end.....
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2009
is the 22nd fringe appearance by this obtuse man.....
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“Lee destroys his topics with the precision,
relentlessness and brutality of a medieval torturer; repeatedly and meticulously
attacking the same small point until it becomes weakened to the point of
collapse. Shorter jokes would be funnier, but nowhere near as transfixing, as
the audience are compelled to see just how far he dare push it, and left to
marvel at the man’s sheer audacity. There’s some tension as to whether it will
work or not, and occasionally it doesn’t.” – Steve Bennett, Chortle....
“Apparently ill at ease with both speech and
movement, Lee’s presence creates a kind of negative energy, a black hole of
vacancy, pregnant with lack of meaning.” – Tim Out, Time Out London....
“His whole tone is one of complete, smug
condescension” – Roz Laws, Birmingham Sunday Mercury....
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“I thought, ‘I'm funnier than Stewart Lee. If he
can do it, I can’.” Al Murray, The Times....
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2) IF YOU PREFER A MILDER
COMEDIAN, PLEASE ASK FOR ONE – AUTUMN TOUR....
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OCTOBER....
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TUES 6 LINCOLN COMEDY
FESTIVAL Engine Shed 0844 888 8766 www.ticketline.co.uk....
WED 7 WORTHING
Pavilion Theatre 01903 206 206 www.worthingtheatres.co.uk....
THUR 8 POOLE
Lighthouse 0844 406 8666 www.lighthousepoole.co.uk....
FRI 9 & SAT 10
NORWICH Playhouse 01603 598598 www.norwichplayhouse.org.uk....
SUN 11 SOUTHEND
Palace Theatre 01702 351135 www.thecliffspavilion.co.uk....
TUES 13 STOCKTON ARC
01642 525199 www.arconline.co.uk....
WED 14 HARROGATE
Theatre 01423 502 116 www.harrogatetheatre.co.uk....
THUR 15 SWANSEA Grand
Theatre 01792 475715 www.swanseagrand.co.uk....
FRI 16 READING
Concert Hall 0118 960 6060 www.readingarts.com....
SAT 17 PORTSMOUTH New
Theatre Royal 023 9264 9000 www.newtheatreroyal.com....
MON
19 & TUE 20 BRIGHTON Corn Exchange 01273 709 709 www.brightondome.org....
WED
21 CAMBERLEY Theatre 01276 707 600 www.camberleytheatre.biz....
FRI
23 COVENTRY Warwick Arts Centre 024 7652 4524 www.warwickartscentre.co.uk ....
SAT
24 CANTERBURY Gulbenkian Theatre 01227 769075 www.gulbenkiantheatre.co.uk....
SUN
25 GALWAY Town Hall Theatre 00353 (0)91 569777 www.tht.ie or www.ticketmaster.ie....
MON
26 DUBLIN Vicar Street 00 353 (0)818 719 390 www.ticketmaster.ie....
TUE
27 BELFAST FESTIVAL Ulster Hall 028 9033 4455 www.belfastfestival.com....
THUR
29 NORTHAMPTON Royal & Derngate 01604 624811
www.royalandderngate.co.uk....
FRI 30 HORSHAM The Capitol 01403 750220 www.thecapitolhorsham.com....
SAT 31 COLCHESTER Mercury Theatre 01206 573948 www.mercurytheatre.co.uk....
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NOVEMBER....
MON
2 TAUNTON Brewhouse 01823 283244 www.thebrewhouse.net....
TUE
3 CHELTENHAM Town Hall 0844 576 2210 www.cheltenhamtownhall.org.uk....
WED
4 WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall 0870 320 7000 www.wolvescivic.co.uk....
THURS
5 WREXHAM Glyndwr*University 01978 292015 www.seetickets.com ....
SAT
7 ST ALBANS THE ALBAN ARENA 01727 844488 www.alban-arena.co.uk....
SUN
8 LEEDS West Yorkshire Playhouse 0113 213 7700 www.wyp.org.uk....
MON
9 NORTH YORKSHIRE The Shed 01653 668494 www.theshed.co.uk ....
TUE
10 ABERDEEN The Music Hall 01224 641122 www.boxofficeaberdeen.com....
WED
11 INVERNESS Eden Court Theatre 01463 2342324 www.eden-court.co.uk....
SAT
14 WORCESTER Huntingdon Hall 01905 611427 www.worcesterlive.co.uk....
SUN
15 BATH Theatre Royal 01225 448844 www.theatreroyal.org.uk....
TUE
17 BURY ST EDMUNDS Theatre Royal 01284 769505 www.theatreroyal.org....
WED
18 GUILDFORD Yvonne Arnaud Theatre 01483 44 00 00 www.yvonne-arnaud.co.uk....
THUR
19 LIVERPOOL Playhouse 0151 709 4776 www.everymanplayhouse.com....
FRI
20 ILFRACOMBE Landmark Theatre 01271 324242 www.northdevontheatres.org.uk....
SAT
21 WINCHESTER Theatre Royal 01962 840440 www.theatre-royal-winchester.co.uk....
THUR
24 TUNBRIDGE WELLS Trinity Theatre 01892 678678 www.trinitytheatre.net....
SUN
22 RICHMOND Theatre 08448 717 651 www.ambassadortickets.com/richmond....
WED
25 BIRMINGHAM Town Hall 0121 780 3333 www.thsh.co.uk....
THURS
26 OXFORD The Regal www.oxfordcomedytickets.co.uk....
FRI
27 PETERBOROUGH Key Theatre 01733 207239 www.peterboroughkeytheatre.co.uk....
SAT
28 NEWCASTLE Journal Tyne Theatre 0844 493 9999 www.thejournaltynetheatre.co.uk....
SUN
29 SALFORD The Lowry 0870 787 5790 www.thelowry.com....
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3) LONDON CIRCUIT LIVE DATES....
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July 2nd The Boat Show West Ken (our
tagline - 'It's not on a boat, but it is in West Ken') It's in the Famous Three
Kings - literally next to West Ken Tube. London. Short set.....
Friday 3rd July dbl bill w Bridget Christie
at Jane Bom Bayne’s, BRIGHTON, Edinburgh preview....
Sat 4th July – Chuckle Club, LSE, London,
Edinburgh Preview....
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July 5th -
Balowski Arts Club, Monto Water Rats Theatre, London -....
www.balowski.co.uk....
(30 minute
preview by Stewart Lee followed by full previews by Richard....
Herring and Gerry
Howell)....
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Thurs 9th July – some benefit, Cross Kings,
Kings Cross, LONDON....
Sat 11th July – Just The Tonic, LONDON....
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July 12th -
Balowski Arts Club, Monto Water Rats Theatre, London -....
www.balowski.co.uk....
(30 minute
preview by Stewart Lee followed by full previews by Phil Nichol....
and Pappy's Fun
Club)....
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Weds 15th July – Knock2Bag, Sherpherd’s
Bush, LONDON....
Fri 17th July – Bush Hall, Shepherd’s Bush,
LONDON + some other good people....
Sat 18th July – Falling Down W Laughter,
LONDON somewhere. Edinburgh Preview....
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July 19th -
Balowski Arts Club, Monto Water Rats Theatre, London -....
www.balowski.co.uk....
(30 minute
preview by Stewart Lee followed by full previews by Stephen K....
Amos and Tim Key)....<