By John Gibson. 243 | The Big Yurt at Hoots @ Potterrow

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Alex Kitson greets the venue with a quick (but necessary) preamble about what to expect in the show. But starting with this piece of administration only worsened his already nervous, hesitant delivery and really didn’t do him any favours.

It is evident that as a performer he has chosen to lean into the nervous energy and it aids his youthful delivery and material. I particularly enjoyed his observation about an older student in a lecture who didn’t see race (who turned out to be a blind man).  His stronger stuff is obviously drawing on his observations as a provincial talent plying his trade in varying locales.

This was perfectly acceptable stand-up, but I thought it was curious that Kitson had chosen to present himself as barely literate when (at the end of the show) he was selling his book of short stories at the door!