Dot Con (and Some Extra Bits) - T052349024Responsible for the fastest ever TED Talk to reach over two million views in the history of TED, UK comedian, musician and writer James Veitch has become renowned for his unashamedly nerdy and hilarious digital content. A former Apple Store Genius, Veitch's comedy is high-tech: picking apart, parodying (and pranking) the fast-advancing and perplexing technology we live with. | |
| 14 Aug 17 to 16 Aug 17 | Soho Theatre, Inner London :: V1035 listing details L0524214149 |
Game Face - T702988322Responsible for the most popular TED Talk of 2016, James Veitch brings his hilarious new show Game Face - with more geeky comedy about life, love and enabling Bluetooth. A glorious show of esoteric, anarchic and unashamedly Powerpoint-fuelled comedy from the Independent's 'One to watch'. Expect Donkey Kong, ducks and online dating as James fearlessly (& somewhat inadvisedly) battles the mundane and pointless bureaucracies of the modern world. | |
| 19 May 17 | OFS Studio (previously known as Old Fire Station Theatre), Oxford :: V800 listing details L1405308485 |
Dot Con - T2023078793Suspicious emails: un-claimed insurance bonds, diamond-encrusted safety deposit boxes, close friends marooned in a foreign country. They pop-up in our inbox and standard procedure is to delete on sight. But what happens when you reply? James Veitch has spent the past year responding to as many scam emails as he can. Packed full of Nigerian princes, can't miss investment opportunities and eligible Russian brides, the correspondence leads to surprising, bizarre and usually hilarious results. Through a blend of traditional standup, interactive projections and music, he takes the audience on a journey through the schemes, investigates the nature of scamming, examines its role in our connected world; and explores his own psyche as he tries to understand why he finds pushing these cyber con artists to their limits so very satisfying. | |
| 8 Nov 16 | Lancaster Arts, Lancaster :: V522 listing details L01263531474 |
| 12 Jun 16 | The Lowry, Salford :: V0655996499 listing details L0609999192 |
| 28 May 16 | OFS Studio (previously known as Old Fire Station Theatre), Oxford :: V800 listing details L107288940 |
| 27 May 16 | Tacchi-Morris Arts Centre, Taunton :: V01603938282 listing details L1114361498 |
| 1 Apr 16 | The Rondo, Bath :: V855 listing details L12894059 |
Work in Progress - T011582383Thematically loose, structurally tenuous. James Veitch's work in progress will have loads of adverbs followed closely by adjectives. It's that time of year again and Veitch presents his new show with the brave, if tentative, embrace of a comic persona that many have described as "his own." Genuinely intrepid. Fundamentally misguided | |
| 18 May 16 | Civic Hall, Wolverhampton :: V01294560265 listing details L566891116 |
| 12 Feb 16 | Pleasance, Inner London :: V276 listing details L01942562928 |
Genius Bar - T1968150784Join an ex-Apple Genius for misguided forays into online-dating, unrequited love and what it's really like to work for Steve Jobs. Expect music, mischief and the Legend of Zelda; iCloud, Macbooks and 80's nostalgia. A clumsy tale of broken hearts and broken iPhones. A show for anyone who's ever wished they could just reboot. | |
| 1 Feb 16 to 2 Feb 16 | Soho Theatre, Inner London :: V1035 listing details L754991963 |
Work in Progress - T0357225601James Veitch feels the same way about adulthood as he does about Woody Allen movies. We all just keep going in the hope that one day it will be as good as it was. Expect experiments in online dating, tales from the Genius Bar, a hypertrophied sense of nostalgia and a misguided investigation into what happens when you hook a Teddy Ruxpin up to the internet. | |
| 19 Feb 15 | Pleasance, Inner London :: V276 listing details L0859562287 |
| 19 Jan 15 to 29 Jan 15 | Pleasance, Inner London :: V276 listing details L1491588662 |
T01746532440James Veitch brings his critically-acclaimed debut show to the Soho Theatre. Suspicious emails: unclaimed insurance bonds; Nigerian princes; standard procedure is to delete on sight. What if you replied? Quirky, fast-paced and relatable; a show for anyone with a dream... and an email account. Running time: 60mins. Age Recommendation: 16+ | |
| 14 Oct 14 to 15 Oct 14 | Soho Theatre, Inner London :: V1035 listing details L1463667562 |
