Attention Seeker

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Attention Seeker

BY GERARD HARRIS

Best Solo Show - Nelson Fringe 2016
March 11 - 13 6:00pm Festival Club

Last year's winner of Best Comedy at the Dunedin Fringe (for A Tension To Detail), the acclaimed British storyteller Gerard Harris returns to the Festival Club this year with Attention Seeker, another regrettably true story that poses the following questions: What’s it like being an overnight success at the very thing you fear the most? How do you go from performing for 10 people to doing it for 1000 and then back to 10 again in just 6 months? And what if during the whole thing you’ve got something wrong with you but you don’t know it?

Attention Seeker is a speedy hour of true stories and absurd one-liners about trying not to crash when you’re stuck in 5th gear. An award-winning, critically acclaimed and popular hit across North America, Australia and New Zealand over the last two years, it looks at the age-old conflicts of ambition vs fear, nature vs nurture, chocolate vs poo, and comedians vs comedians.

The true story of Gerard's start in comedy as the joke writer for a very famous-but-nameless comedian in the UK, it was only a matter of time before he decided to give standup a try and so, armed with only crippling stage fright, deep uncertainty in his abilities and a collection of jokes the famous comedian didn’t buy, he entered a national standup competition with no idea of what he was doing or how to do it, and the rest is history. Except history is normally supposed to be written by the winners.

“incredibly smart, funny and possibly one of the best comedians at this
fringe” -Edmonton Journal

“it’s . . . what was I going to . . . . Oh, yeah, good” - Star-Phoenix, Saskatoon

“Gerard Is Doing Something So Unlike Conventional Storytelling Or Long-Form Stand-Up Comedy That He Is Dancing On The Edge Of A Knife - Apt 613, Ottawa

Harris leaves you with much more than the story. He makes you look at things in a different way...” - Theatreview, Dunedin

“a master craftsman” - Art Murmurs, Wellington

“Hugely Talented, A Cut Above Most Storytellers” - Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

media enquiries: 027 459 2196 gerardharris@gmail.com Tickets: $20/$16 at dunedinfringe.nz and at the door if available

Where: 11-13 Mar, 6.00pm, The Festival Club, 20 Princes St, Dunedin

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