Daniel Kitson, a favourite of Liverpool audiences as well as the Edinburgh Comedy Festival, returns to the Playhouse for the opening show of his new tour. The award-winning comedian describes After the Beginning. Before the End as being “something like a stand up show” and will be at the Williamson Square venue on Wednesday 8 May.

His last stand up show was at the Playhouse in 2009, while he was most recently in the city with a sell-out storytelling show The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church at the Everyman in 2011 before its redevelopment. Kitson’s latest performance follows the successes of his shows C90, The Impotent Fury of the Privileged and 66a Church Road.

Kitson’s bittersweet and touching style never fails to end triumphantly and After the Beginning. Before the End is certain to beguile fans and newcomers alike.

Daniel Kitson said, “This is a very specific point in time. I’ve been waiting to have the idea for this show for weeks, for months. A space held open in my head waiting for the idea. For months. I’ve done previews and I’ve booked the tour and I’ve stared at the internet and I’ve made chicken and I’ve tried not to worry. But the idea has not come and I have worried. But then today, having dropped my dad off at the train station and met my friends for some coffee, whilst driving home to write this dreading the thought of heaving half lies and optimistic promises into something vaguely intriguing but not developmentally restrictive – half way home, it happened. Somewhere between East London and South London – It arrived. The Idea. Just like that.”

The Yorkshire-born performer has been a hit act at the Edinburgh comedy festival since his first show at the event in 2001 when he was nominated for the Perrier Award for his show Love, Innocence and the Word Cock. He went on to win the prestigious award the following year with his show Something and also received the Stage Award for best solo performance 2006 for C-90.

Since his early career Kitson has created a number of story shows alongside his stand-up routine, Stories of the Wobbly-hearted, C-90 and The Interminable Suicide of Gregory Church have all won Fringe First Awards, winning acclaim from critics and audiences alike in the process.

Tickets for After the Beginning. Before the End go on sale on Monday at 10am from the Playhouse box office. Tickets are priced at £10 and are available from the Box office on Williamson Square, online at www.everymanplayhouse.com or by telephone on 0151 7094776