Rob Auton
Rob Auton is one of those performers who refuses to fit neatly into a category. I first encountered him when I nominated him for Dave's Joke Of the Fringe back in 2013. He won* but you'd hardly describe him as a stand-up comedian. He's part-poet, part-artist, part-wistful dreamer. Previous show themes have included the colour yellow, time, hair and the sky. The theme in this show is Rob Auton.
Lots of people have asked the question why comics do what they do, given that so many are so socially awkward and shy.
You won’t find a better explanation than the one in Rob Auton’s show, which centres on the dynamic between the performer and the audience.
Auton, who may be the shyest of them all, has previously created shows around a single word, with poetic, philosophical and philological explorations of Yellow, Sky, Sleep and Hair.
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2020 British Podcast Award winning comedian Rob Auton announces the rescheduling of his biggest tour to date with his critically acclaimed Edinburgh comedy/theatre/spoken word show about time, The Time Show, for Autumn 2021, kicking off with a two-week run at Soho Theatre, Downstairs from 16th to 28th August at 7.00pm.
Award winning comedian and poet Rob Auton launches The Rob Auton Daily Podcast on the 1st January 2020. Episodes from the podcast produced by Ben Williams for Plosive Productions (Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster, Audible Live), will be released for 366 consecutive days of the leap year.
Rob Auton, who recently played a hairy poet in ITV drama Cold Feet, is set to embark on his biggest nationwide tour yet.
Rob Auton begins by welcoming his audience. “Hello, what’s your name. Where are you from?
“Are you from York? So am I?”
He’s long-haired, bearded, softly spoken, seemingly shy. The props he has on stage are a plastic supermarket bag and a pile of battered notebooks.
As I wrote in my piece on how to get reviewed at the Fringe, luck can play its part as much as skill. About ten years ago I stumbled into a show by the then unknown Michael McIntyre because I was nearby and had a spare hour. And in 2013 I was also at a loose end and wandered into a free package show where Rob Auton was doing a taster of his full show. One of his lines was "I heard a rumour that Cadbury is bringing out an oriental chocolate bar.
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