In a very unexpected turn of events, I am doing a further work-in-progress run of my stand-up show 'Cyril' in Edinburgh.
I'm going to Edinburgh with my work-in-progress show Cyril (as this VERY hastily designed flyer explains!)
I'll be at the Hotel Indigo, York Place, at 4pm from 20th to 24th August. Do come along!
It's about my great-grandfather who was a seafarer, farmer and local poet.
I
never met him because he died in Australia, but I've got a book of his (which in the background of the front image) and a handful of magazine articles, cuttings and notes left from
my dad (the background of the second image!) which I have been working my way through to try and
piece together his life.
In 2022 I found myself having to
research Cyril's life to an unexpectedly tight deadline. I have now put
everything I discovered into a show which is about fighting, farming and
moving to London in the noughties when your agricultural ancestors
thought tarmac was a bit much. Plus jokes.
The Camden run was
great fun and I think it's coming along really nicely - and I'd
genuinely suggest seeing it now before my family fact-check it and make
me change things.
It's on 20-24 August at 4pm in Hotel Indigo
York Place (Venue 79), Pay What You Want (including nothing, that's
fine).
I completed a work-in-progress run at the Camden Fringe in July and in
the build-up to the show, I did a couple of interviews to explain what
Cyril is all about (and what I am all about too!) I'll pop them
below.
British Comedy Guide - My Comedy Career - Gareth Gwynn
A Young(ish) Perspective - In Conversation With Gareth Gwynn
Everything Theatre - Plowing Up A Verse
