live tour of the UK!

August 13, 2024 The Allusionist

The Souvenirs tour poster, hand-drawn letters of the word Souvenirs each with a different kind of souvenir depicted - snowglobe, teddy bear, fancy spoons, map, tea towel, shell necklace, scarf, pencils, keyring. A list of the tour dates is below

The Allusionist is going on a live tour of the UK in August and September 2024! It’s an all new show of stuff that has not been on the podcast (and may never be), about frenemies and strong font-based emotions and unintentional swears. It is called Souvenirs, and will be feelgood and fun to watch.

All dates are on sale now, check theallusionist.org/events for ticket links.

Preemptive answering of questions:

Stream the new live show!

September 5, 2021 The Allusionist

A new Allusionist live show has arrived! The first performance was yesterday, and I haven’t booked in other gigs yet*, so it might be the only performance, TBD.

Good news though: the show is still available thanks to the Kings Place player for a month! So you can watch it HERE until 4 October 2021. Get it, get it now!

And you should, because the show is packed full of entertainment, music and EPONYMS. We’ve got the Bechdel Test, uzis, the Thatcher Effect, pilates, Shirley Temples, saxophones AND saxtubas. Venn diagrams, the Myers-Briggs test, Morse Code, Veuve Cliquot and Uranus.

Allusionist 121. No Title

September 14, 2020 The Allusionist

The Allusionist No Title poster colours.jpg

In 2014, a seemingly trivial and boring incident at the bank propelled me down a linguistic road via medieval werewolves, Ms Marvel and confusingly inscribed gravestones, to find out why the English language is riddled with all this gender. What’s it FOR? How did it GET there? Will it go AWAY now please? It is, at the very least, taking up brainspace and not paying any rent.

This is a recording of a live performance at the Blueberry Hill Duck Room in St Louis, Missouri on 23 November 2019, and there were visuals happening, so I’ll drop in sometimes to explain them, and I’ve also put a transcript and pictures in this post.

There are swears in this. There are also arguments that will be very useful to you if you ever come up against a denier of singular they. You will definitely win.