On a Stage Bare Apart From a Chair, a Step-Ladder... [Derived Headline]
The Herald › September 16, 2010
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On a stage bare apart from a chair, a step-ladder and a series of bulbs hanging at various lengths, Daniel Kitson shuffles on and before the audience has time to realise, they are led gently into a tale of parallel lives which he takes pains to point out is not a love story, "although there is love in it". Through the lives and times of Caroline Carpenter and William Rivington, who never meet but almost brush past each other on a bus, Kitson maps out corresponding life patterns from birth to death in all their glorious ordinariness.
In a way, Kitson's latest study is one more variation on a theme of his previous pieces. Yet, not only is his gradual honing down of his world view to its barest essentials lending a scientific gravitas to proceedings in terms of overlapping lives. As a particular lightbulb brightens sharper with each incidental moment, what Kitson is saying is the most obvious of obversations, that we all create our own stories by accident, and the only thing that happens in them is both familiar and beautifully unique. It's called life, and through Kitson's eyes is as funny and sad as it's ever likely to be.See the full content of this document
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On a Stage Bare Apart From a Chair, a Step-Ladder... [Derived Headline]
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