Life After Divorce: Eventually, it can
even be pretty good! Highly experienced comedian Kevin McCarron’s show looks at an
issue which, according to statistics, touches the lives of more couples than it
doesn’t. For the great majority of couples affected by divorce, particularly if
children are involved, it is a painful experience and in his show McCarron unflinchingly
acknowledges that this is the case. However, he wastes no time on blame or recrimination;
instead, he considers issues such as miscommunication between men and women, and notes how
persistently feeling undervalued can harm a
marriage quite as much as, say, drinking or infidelity (which came quite a bit later).
While one door shuts
(rather vigorously behind him in his case) another door opens; perhaps even several!
McCarron genially traces his progress from dejection, loneliness and pessimism in the
immediate aftermath of the separation to a qualified happiness and even, eventually, a
guarded optimism (he will admit that some drugs were involved in the making of this
transition). But of considerably more importance in encouraging him to move forward was,
for the first time in decades, time and space to think. Also, a girlfriend, who seems to
quite like him, helped him a lot, and, perhaps most surprising of all, so did a newly
found enthusiasm for the novels of P.G. Wodehouse.
Throughout his show a number of
topics are raised: children; rented accommodation; doctors; sleeping pills; teaching in
prisons; tattoos; the Oxford and Cambridge boat race; travel to such exotic destinations
as Singapore, Amsterdam and Gateshead; the rock band U2; museums; art installations;
underpants; dinner parties, the behaviour of friends after the separation, ecstasy and
hash, nightclubs, living on a university campus, students and academics, West Indian
cleaners; Westerns, and British POW films.
"Brilliantly Quick Witted"
- Time Out Comics Choice
"Top London Comic" -
Liberty Radio
"Great Comedy" - Evening
Standard
"Good Timing" –
Arnold Brown
www.kevinmccarron.co.uk
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