Alex Horne
Wednesday 2 May : 8.30pm
All tickets £12.00 : seated
‘Seven Year’s In the Bathroom’
Star and co-creator of BBC Four’s comedy quiz show We Need Answers, award-winning comedian Alex Horne has established a reputation among critics, comics and audiences as a thoughtful and original stand-up, writer and solo performer.
‘Seven Years In The Bathroom’ is the ultimate stat-based fun-packed thought-provoking experimental-and-sometimes-stupid comedy show in which Alex aims to recreate your entire life. That’s right, he’ll do everything you’ll ever do but in one evening. So in an average lifetime you’ll spend two years shopping, two weeks kissing and eighteen months looking for lost things. You’ll also spend quite a while eating, queuing, crying and googling yourself. Alex is going to squeeze all those things into one show and it’ll be tremendous. And very funny. So come and laugh at your life.
ALEX HORNE has spent more than a decade building shows around niche subjects like bird watching, Latin, dictionaries and quantum mechanics including Making Fish Laugh that saw him nominated for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. Now he’s decided to raise his game. ALEX is going to have a crack at life itself, and to mark this massive shift he’s going to write the rest of this in the first person.
I like statistics. I particularly like the one that says, “If the history of the earth is condensed into a single year then humans only arrive at five to midnight on New Year’s Eve”. That’s a good one. Mainly because it makes you think, blimey, just in time; isn’t the earth old and isn’t my tiny life insignificant.
I’m going to show you exactly what it would look like if a human life was condensed into one hour. That’s the big idea. You may well have heard that in your life you’ll spend two years queuing, two weeks kissing and three months opening jars, well, now you’re going to see what that would look like in the context of your entire life. There will also be some jokes, but mainly it’ll be a typical human existence squeezed into an hour.
There will, of course, be some nifty presentation techniques (I’ve moved on from PowerPoint to the mighty Keynote), but the big news is I’ll be attempting several things for the first time ever in public: wearing a bathrobe, drinking exactly 100 ml of cider and simulating sex to name a few. It’ll be about as rock and roll as a geek like me could ever dare dream
“Beautifully structured, endearingly honest… joyous” The Scotsman.
“A beguiling blend of the smart and the stupid…a real delight” Sunday Times
In 2011 ALEX returned to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with three shows: the innovative Jazz comedy show, The Horne Section – which following a sell out run at the coveted late night spot in the Famous Spiegeltent has been commissioned for a Radio 4 series; Taskmaster II, a one off show concluding a year long challenge in which ALEX has persuaded 20 of his favourite comedians to take part on a covert competition; and this solo stand-up show Seven Years in a Bathroom.
Recently ALEX filmed his own documentary for BBC Four, ‘The Games that Time Forgot: Cricket on Horseback and Other Forgotten Sports’ and appeared on Celebrity Mastermind. His other recent credits include The Percy Edwards Showdown, Loose Ends and The Verb for BBC Radio 3. ALEX’s world record attempt to be the world’s oldest man can now be followed on the Innocent sponsored website: http://longlivealex.com/
