Tim Key joins Daniel Kitson’s new play

Tim Key will collaborate with Daniel Kitson for his new show in Manchester next month.

Kitson will write and direct Tree, a two-hander play, which runs from 11 to 21 September 2013 at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.

As the show is still being written, the website for the theatre says: “Information is currently pretty scarce. There is currently no running time, no marketing copy, no programme image.”

However Kitson described the play as “a new show about dissent, commitment, two people and a tree.”

“It’s early evening. it’s mid autumn. It’s starting to get dark. And on a quiet residential street somewhere in England, a man with a picnic basket, arrives at a tree.”

Both Daniel Kitson and Tim Key are former winners of the Edinburgh Comedy Award, in 2002 and 2009 respectively.

Kitson said that he is excited about the project, in particular working with Key.

He said: “I wanted to try increasingly different things with my shows, and writing for someone else is a new thing for me.

“It opens up things with dialogue, that I couldn’t do in a one man story show, but also has its own restrictions and its slightly intimidating when the other person you’re writing for, is themselves, really fucking good.”

Key commented: “I’m in Daniel Kitson’s new play. It’s called Tree. I’m playing a man. I cannot wait.”

At present, Kitson has no plans to tour the show once it finishes its run at the Royal Exchange Theatre.