Fri 4 April 2025 7:30pm - 9:30pm

Rob Auton

at 1532 Performing Arts Centre, Bristol

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The Eyes Open and Shut Show

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Award winning writer, comedian and actor Rob Auton brings The Eyes Open and Shut Show to 1532 Performing Arts Centre.

Rob has written ten hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy/theatre/spoken-word shows on specific themes including the colour yellow in The Yellow Show, sleep in The Sleep Show and hair in The Hair Show.

The Eyes Open and Shut Show is a show about eyes when they are open and eyes when they are shut. With this show Rob wanted to explore what he could do to himself and others with language when eyes are open and shut. After writing ten shows on specific themes, he wanted to think about what makes him open his eyes and what makes him shut them.

TV credits include: Starstruck (BBC), Cold Feet (ITV), The End of the F*cking World (Netflix/Channel 4), Miracle Workers (TBS), The Russell Howard Hour (Sky), Stand-Up Central With Rob Delaney (Comedy Central).

Winner - Best Daily Podcast at the British Podcast Awards 2020
Winner - Dave Joke of the Fringe 2013
Winner - Three Weeks Editor’s Choice Awards 2017

“Brilliant” Stewart Lee

“One of my absolute favourites” Daniel Kitson

“Rob Auton is the mother freaking greatest” James Acaster

“You'll laugh a lot, you'll smile a lot and, mark my words, you'll want to see him again. One of my favourite shows this year” ????? Beyond The Joke

“Like a sunbeam from heaven in human form, Auton is a constant delight” ???? The Mail On Sunday

“A genuine original” The Guardian

Rob Auton

Rob is a London-based performer, artist, writer, poet and comedian. He is a Dave’s Funniest Joke Of The Fringe award-winner and Glastonbury’s Poet In Residence. Every year he picks a subject that is important to him and writes an hour long show about it. So far he has done The Yellow Show, The Sky Show, The Face Show, The Water Show, The Sleep Show and the Hair Show. His work has been played on the radio by Jarvis Cocker, Cerys Matthews and Scroobius Pip and shown on the television by BBC1, BBC 2 and Channel 4. 'A genuine original' (The Guardian) 'A talent to watch' (The Independent).

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