Simon Munnery Sings Soren Kierkegaard

“What’s the name of this show?” asked Simon Munnery of an enraptured audience who’d presumably all paid to be there. “Show And Tell!” came the confident reply from a lady in the third row. “That’s the name of the promoter, my dear,” retorted Simon. Commence much embarrassed fumbling in pockets for ticket stubs and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the audience in near entirety had shown up to the wrong performance. Nope … turns out, nobody knows much about Soren Kierkegaard.

Well, we were invited to learn, and learn we did, via the medium of animated, frenetic spoken word recitals interspersed with some of Munnery’s own dry witticism, observation, and a long-running joke about his flailing efforts to remember the script (he hadn’t performed the set in six months). Merging revealing diary snippets for the sake of the uninitiated with delicious aphoristic revisitations for existing philosophy buffs, this show hit the mark at every level. Fantastic. My only complaint is that Simon didn’t bring his ukulele.

The Old Market, Wednesday 11 February 2015

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