'UTTER!' Mini-Edinburgh Fringe: FULL SHOWS from RTJ - KEITH JARRETT - JAMES McKAY +more

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'UTTER!' 10th BIRTHDAY - Mini-Edinburgh Fringe with FULL SHOWS from KEITH JARRETT - JAMES McKAY - LEE NELSON - KIRSTEN LUCKINS & RICHARD TYRONE JONES
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5 brilliant Edinburgh shows PLUS the infamous PAID GIG CONTEST and last month's winner Danni Antagonist - all for JUST £10 on the door or £7+bf prebooked! (We recommend: seating is limited to 40). If you've got wefund tickets already just turn up to 'spend' them.

You'd normally pay at least £50 for 5 shows of this caliber. And £100 for train tickets to Edinburgh. So save £140+ and book now.

The shows:

20:30-21.20 KEITH JARRETT'S 'Identity Mix-Up': well-staged poetic musings on being Black Carribbean, Spanish-speaking and gay. Got two five star reviews from Broadwaybaby and ThreeWeeks in Edinburgh 2013. In 2010, Keith simultaneously held the title of London and UK Poetry Slam Champion, and was a semi-finalist in the World Cup Grand Slam in Paris. He won the Human Right's Poetry slam in with his 'Gay Poem'. TWICE. He is also completing Goldsmith's Poetry in Education MA and his first novel. You should hate him. Annoyingly, you'll love him.

"an excellent poet and one to watch" - ***** - ThreeWeeks

19:20-2010 RICHARD TYRONE JONES'S book and debut solo show 'Big Heart' got Wellcome Trust funding and toured the UK & Edinburgh in 2012/13. It won awards at the Edinburgh, Vancouver and Victoria Fringes and became BBC Radio 4's first spoken-word sitcom. He is "hilarious and ultimately uplifting" - New Scientist, "raw, at times graphic, and very funny" - BBC Ouch! and "young" - Time Out. ***** - remotegoat. ****1/2 - Times Colonist. **** - Everybody else.

Richard now presents the debut scratch performance of his follow-up 2014 fringe show. Whereas 'Big Heart' was about surviving heart failure, 'Crap Time Lord' is about regenerating to find you're a different person. Having, like the Doctor, two hearts and a cancelled BBC series, and being prone to sudden defibrillation, an old man trapped in a young man's body, can Richard ever find a home and companion? And when your heart's bigger on the inside than the outside, how do you fill the emptiness?

RTJ is Director of 'Utter!' spoken word. Follow him on @rtjpoet; many do.

18.20-19:00 PAID GIG CONTEST: 4 acts do 5 mins spoken word each. Audience votes in a secret ballot to decide who deserves a £50 paid gig at a future 'Utter!'

CHARLEY LUCY HARRISON + 3 slots available for those taking spoken word shows to Edinburgh in 2014 or with Fringe-themed material: Send footage to richardtyronejones@gmail.com.

Plus, the winner of last month's Paid Gig contest, Danni Antagonist of Poetry Kapow!

17.10 - 18.00 JAMES McKAY & LEE NELSON, 'Utter!'s Luton director of operations, and a poet and performer for ten years (so not the crap BBC working-class-baiting character comic) team up to deliver 'Scatter Theory', their intriguingly batshit 2012 show. Eschewing easy laughs for titters of confusion, challenging and technically considered poetry and a fusion of disparate language styles. If that sounds difficult, it's not. It's like the Two Ronnies on a beatnik mental ward.

1540-1650: KIRSTEN LUCKINS is Apples and Snakes' North-East programme coordinator. Her 2013 'Utter!' Edinburgh show 'The Moon cannot be stolen,' looks fondly on, and taking the piss out of, her teenage Indian gap year diaries. It's just got Arts Council Funding to tour the UK. Scratch footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voLznrFiiGQ

"The Moon Cannot Be Stolen is the best show I've seen in six years on the fringe. The show I wish I'd written, you'll leave feeling inspired, energised and ready to tackle the world. Red bull, in theatre form." Sophia Walker, BBC Slam Champion & Winner, Best Free Fringe Spoken Word show 2013.

1430-1520: JAMES McKAY Do you think we should learn more Victorian epic poetry by rote? James does, and the public agrees. His 'New Popular Reciter' saw an eighth sell-out year at the Arundel Festival plus a cult late-night run at 2013's Edinburgh Fringe. James declaims warlike classics such as 'How Horatius held the bridge' as well as top-shelf poetry by the Earl of Rochester and Kipling's racier stuff with gusto. A prodigious feat of delivery and memory.

You would normally pay £50 for shows of this calibre. And £100 for a ticket to the Edinburgh Fringe. Plus accommodation and haggis. So do yourself a favour, save at least £142.30, and book now - just 40 tickets! http://bit.ly/uttermini

Supported by Arts Council England