A savant of razor-sharp and sardonic wit, an evening with David Sedaris is better than therapy, a life affirming joyful experience that leaves a person feeling as if their cup has been filled right to the brim by one of the world’s pre-eminent humour writers.
Expect brand new essays and freshly minted diary entries read live from the stage, a candid audience Q&A, and an extended book signing that — true to form — will run as long as it needs to.
In The Land and Its People, his first new essay collection since Happy-Go-Lucky, Sedaris reflects on what it means to be a foreigner, a brother, and a lifelong friend — trying on the role of caretaker after his partner Hugh’s hip-replacement surgery. Equal parts tender and devastating, it’s classic Sedaris: the kind of writing that makes you laugh until you feel guilty, then laugh again anyway.
“Sedaris is the God of the comic essay… Sedaris’s only rule: be funny or perish” – Lena Dunham
“To see Sedaris live is pure joy. To watch this bookish, culotte-evangelising man read his life’s work on stage is word-nerd heaven, best topped off by spending three minutes with his full attention at the book-signing table after a show.” – The Saturday Paper
And Sedaris himself? He knows exactly why he keeps coming back. “I love the airports of Australia. Security wise, they’re like stepping into a time machine and coming out in 1975. No one yells at you, you get to keep your shoes on. It’s heaven.”
Don’t miss the opportunity to hear David Sedaris read from his brand-new book.
“The happy-go-unlucky Sedaris is forever being frustrated, humiliated or downright annihilated, and the mishaps he chronicles probably explain why readers feel so fondly protective towards him.” – The Guardian UK
“Sedaris is the premier observer of our world and its weirdness” – Adam Kay
AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS
