An Evening with David Sedaris

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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.

Fresh from ecstatic reviews of his recently published collection The Land and Its People, audiences can 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] knits the present to the past so that they become the same thing; for him being alive has always been strange and atrocious, contradictory, unfair and hilarious.” The New York Times on The Land and Its People

“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

“Sedaris is the God of the comic essay… Sedaris’s only rule: be funny or perish.” Lena Dunham