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Kieran Hodgson: Big in Scotland review – fun show has its Dundee cake and eats it

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh After moving to Glasgow, the Yorkshire standup dreams of reinventing himself as a Scotsman – but will faking an accent and ordering vegan haggis be enough?

T he arrival of a new Kieran Hodgson set can’t fail to excite fringe-goers: his three nerdy, intensely funny shows in the late 2010s (on cycling , classical music and Britain’s relationship with Europe) were each rightly nominated for the Edinburgh comedy award. This year’s return is particularly mouthwatering for we north Britons, as the Yorkshireman turned soft southerner addresses Anglo-Scottish relations and his move to Glasgow, where, as an actor in the sitcom Two Doors Down , he has lived since 2020. If that sounds tailor-made to titillate Edinburgh crowds – well, Hodgson does not disappoint.

From its introduction onwards, it’s a show that delights in teasing its audiences, English and Scottish both, and in having its (Dundee) cake and eating it. In a heavy Scottish accent, Hodgson voices concerns about Englishmen aping Scottish accents. National stereotypes are undermined – but also zeroed in on for laughs, as with a fantasy musical sequence that finds immigrant Kieran welcomed tae Glesga by the kitsch music-hall star Harry Lauder . But, cheerfully wise to the shoogliness of the endeavour, Hodgson keeps both plates spinning: the dream of reinventing himself as Scottish, and the acknowledgment that “Scottish” is a complicated category.

For all that Hodgson dismisses his earlier shows as so many “facts and figures and silly voices from years gone by”, Big in Scotland is cut from similar cloth, and has similar (minor) weaknesses. As with his (pre-)Brexit show ’75 , there’s a framing device (this time about a best man’s speech gone wrong) that strives for emotional significance. It’s fun enough, but feels a bit strenuous, and manoeuvres our host towards some overdetermined learning as Big in Scotland reaches its conclusion.

Even if the effort is futile to tie up Anglo-Scottish relations in a neat, hour-long narrative knot, we’re usually laughing too hard to care. Whether he’s learning Gaelic, offending his co-stars with loose opinions on Scottish independence or ordering vegan haggis in a Highland pub, Hodgson comes armed with limitless pert observations about his new countryfolk, a diverting array of vocal caricatures and jokes within self-abasing jokes about his failure to assimilate. For a show that’s sure to be – deservedly – Big in Edinburgh, look no further.

At the Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh, until 27 August

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Exactly what you'd expect from Kieran Hodgson - a brilliantly written hour of thoughtful, nuanced comedy, packed with bang on impressions and big laughs.

In 2020 , the world changed forever, as Kieran Hodgson moved to Scotland. Now the three-time Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee commutes to the Fringe from his new home of Glasgow for a month to tell you how it's working out. He's that guy from the BBC 's ' Two Doors Down ' (he's Gordon), the 'Bad TV Impressions' viral videos of 'The Crown' and 'Happy Valley', and three Channel 4 specials. ***** (Guardian). ***** (Telegraph). **** (Times). **** (Scotsman). **** (TimeOut). **** (Sunday Times). **** (Independent). **** (Chortle.co.uk). **** (Fest). **** (List).

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• 29th March 2024 at the King’s Theatre, Glasgow

About the Show:

• ‘Big In Scotland’: An Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominated journey of discovery in Scotland, blending personal and political themes with humor.
• Starring: Kieran Hodgson, BBC One’s ‘Two Doors Down’ star.
• Plot: Kieran’s move to Scotland transforms his life, challenging perceptions and exploring the England-Scotland dynamic in a non-newsy, humorous way.

Critics’ Acclaim:

• ★★★★★ (Broadway World, Mail on Sunday, Beyond the Joke)
• ★★★★ (The Times, The Guardian, Daily Telegraph)
• Nominated: Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Show (2015, 2016, 2018, 2023)

Additional Tour Details:

• Extra Dates: Following a successful autumn tour and Edinburgh Festival Fringe sell-out.
• Soho Theatre: Extended dates from 16th to 27th January.
• UK Tour: Additional dates across the UK.

Kieran Hodgson:

• Background: Four-time Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee, television writer, actor, and cat owner.
• TV Credits: Created and starred in three Channel 4 specials, regular in BBC’s ‘Two Doors Down’.
• Live Shows: Known for ‘Lance’, ‘Maestro’, and ”75′.
• Acting Credits: Roles in ‘Upstart Crow’, ‘Pls Like’, ‘Famalam’, and films ‘See How They Run’ and ‘The Flash’.

Show Highlights:

• Exploration of cultural identity and belonging in Scotland.
• A mix of storytelling, character comedy, and passionate themes.
• A song, possibly a tartan jacket, subject to venue temperature!

Personal Note:

• Kieran and his new ragdoll kitten are thriving since February 2023.

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Kieran Hodgson: Big In Scotland

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The brainbox English comic returns with a deliciously provocative homage to his adopted home of Scotland

This review is from the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.

Kieran Hodgson is the master of high-concept stand-up: his previous Fringe hits have tackled such delightfully esoteric subjects Lance Armstrong, classical music, and the 1975 referendum on Europe.

This year he’s trying something even more audacious: doing a comedy show about Scotland, while also very much being English.

To be fair, ‘Big in Scotland’ is not quite aiming for the same kamikaze impact as Stewart Lee’s infamous routine about ‘the Scotch’ . There are some mitigating factors. For starters he looks and dresses a bit like David Tennant these days. More to the point, he now not only lives in Scotland but is indeed, in his own way, big in it.

The show, then, is a (probably somewhat embellished) account of his move to Glasgow after landing a role on the popular Scottish TV series ‘Two Doors Down’. The show is nominally an enthusiastic tribute to his new home. Nonetheless , he is deliciously *aware* of the intense possibilities for annoying his audience.

There are jokes about the Scottish, and their diet of ‘porridge and resentment’, though the harshest zingers tend to conveniently be attributed to his friends.

More insidious is his clear intention of simply being amusingly annoying: the virtuosic opening monologue in which he looks extremely pleased with himself while launching into a long passage of perfectly enunciated Scots Gaelic is probably more calculated to wind the average Scottish audience member up than the insults. 

And then there’s the main story, in which Hodgson casts himself in the role of a jaded, inathentic Englishman who screwed up the best man’s speech at his friend’s wedding – filling it with geeky facts and clever wordplay but no actual emotions – and decided to go and seek redemption over the border. The schtick that he was terrible person who needed to change is an excuse for some gloriously near-to-the-knuckle stuff as he regales us with the (possibly exaggerated) story of how he alienated his co-stars by slagging off Glasgow accents and Scottish independence, and only later came to understand them both culturally and literally. 

‘Big in Scotland’ is Hodgson writ large: a geeky love letter to his new home, an epic work of self-mockery – there seems to be no doubt that he has been very nerdishly learning Scots Gaelic – but also a very clever exploration of the complicated, somewhat one-sided tension that exists between the English and the Scottish. Some might see it as a bit of a cop-out that he makes it through the show without seriously offending his substantially Scottish audience. But that in itself is a pretty spectacular feat when you’re sailing as close to the bone as this. 

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EDINBURGH 2023: Kieran Hodgson Q&A

Big in Scotland comes to Edinburgh in August

BWW caught up with Kieran Hodgson to chat about bringing Big In Scotland to the 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Tell us a bit about Big In Scotland.

Hello! My shows are these kind-of one-man storytelling monologue things with characters and silly voices and hopefully a common idea that holds it together. This year's common idea? I move to Scotland and I'm trying to be someone different, seeking out change in a country that wrestles with change all the time. It's an attempt to understand a place that in some ways is intensely familiar, in other ways strange and unknown, and at the same time find a 'New Scottish Kieran' who is better than 'Old English Kieran'. But is that even possible? Find out this August!

I saw a preview of the show in Glasgow in March [side note: it was fantastic] has it changed much from the work in progress?

Thank you so much for coming and I'm glad you liked it! Cards on the table, it's changed a great deal and I hope that I haven't made it much worse for you. The central idea remains the same – I move to Scotland, I wrestle with who to be up here – but as ever my early drafts are far too busy and there's been quite a lot of work to make the show shorter and clearer. Fundamentally, I've had to tackle the question of 'why would anyone care about this?', seeing as on the surface this is the story of a man moving house, which ain't exactly Mission: Impossible. Have I answered that question? Find out this August!

It's quite a personal show for you, does that make it more nerve-wracking?

Oh I wish I could just write fiction, but my imagination is terrible and so I'm locked into the current formula: a rich real-world topic wedded to some sort of personal discovery. I imagine and fear that audiences must be terribly bored of it by now. 'Why is this man still talking about himself? There's nothing of worth or interest in him.' So yes, I don't fear the personal exposure so much as how dreary that exposure must be for members of the public, especially when there are people with far more engaging psyches at the Fringe. And people who can do trapeze. Go see them.

Who would you like to come and see Big in Scotland?

I guess this show is for you if you want to see someone wrestle with big questions of nationhood and individuality in a medium very poorly suited to it, and without the talent to reach any useful conclusions. If you like hearing different accents, if you like a song without any accompanying music, if you like a painfully sincere final 5 minutes, then this is the show for you. Oh, and if you like Two Doors Down then please come along, it is almost entirely unlike Two Doors Down.

What would you like audiences to take away from it?

Dear audience member, please take away from my show the sense that the more I know about Scotland, the less I understand, but that the investigation is worth it. I think that there's a great many assumptions made about the United Kingdom and how its constituent nations interrelate, and whatever future you see for us, it will probably be healthier if we all make an effort to break those assumptions down. Oh, and be yourself and all that. Thanks for coming!

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• No intoxication or signs of impairment related to alcohol or drugs
• No irresponsible drinking or behavior
• No klaxons, bullhorns, air horns, bells, thunder sticks, radio bells, musical instruments, whistles, or any other noisemakers
• No laptops and laptop Bags, tablets, iPads or digital reader
• No laser pointers of any type
• No lights or battery packs with the exception of phone charging units
• No offensive clothing
• No projectiles (footballs, Frisbees, balloons, etc.)
• No unauthorized promotional, political or commercial materials, including flyers, samples, giveaways, etc.
• No two-way radios or walkie talkies
• No selfie sticks
• No signs or banners larger than 11” x 17”, sticks, bats, clubs or poles
• No drones and UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles)
• No umbrellas (no obstruction of other fans view)
• No weapons of any kind (including, but not limited to silverware guns, ammo, knives, tasers, pepper spray/mace,etc.). This applies to all attendees, including off-duty law enforcement and concealed carry permit holders.

Anyone possessing PROHIBITED items will be asked to return them to their cars or dispose of them in the garbage cans provided at the gate.

Valley Transportation Authority (VTA)

VTA will operate increased train service from Mountain View station (Caltrain transfer) and Milpitas station (BART transfer) two hours prior to event start. Post-event service will run for approximately 60 minutes post-event. For more information, please visit  www.vta.org .

Guests heading to the concert can get off at the Mountain View station and transfer to VTA light rail service to Levi’s Stadium.

Post-Concert Northbound – Service Mountain View to San Francisco:

• Northbound 145 – 11:33 PM
• Swifty Special will depart Mountain View 75 minutes after the end of the show
• Southbound 138 – 10:48 PM
• Southbound 140 – 11:18 PM
• Southbound 142 – 11:44 PM
• Southbound 144 – 12:15 AM
• Southbound 146 – 1:18 AM

For more information, please visit the game service page at www.carltrain.com/status

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART)

BART will operate regular weekday and weekend schedules.

Guest heading to the concert can get off at the Milpitas Station and transfer to VTA light rail service to the Levi’s Stadium. Post-concert, BART will run two special event service limited-stop trains that will depart Milpitas Station at around 12:30am serving limited stops after regular BART service ends. The special service will stop only at the following stations:

• Pleasant Hill
• El Cerrito del Norte

For more information, please visit www.bart.gov/news/articles/2023/news20230720-0 .

Capitol Corridor

Capitol Corridor will operate regular weekday and weekend schedules westbound to Santa Clara. Post concert, Train 550 on Friday will depart GAC at 11:59 PM, and Saturday Train 750 will depart GAC at 11:59 PM. For more information, please visit www.capitolcorridor.org .

The rideshare drop-off location at Levi’s® Stadium for this event will be on Great America Parkway curbside, between Tasman Drive and Old Glory Lane. The pick-up zone is located in Red Lot 7. Follow signage and staff instructions for additional directions.

Parent drop off will be located on Great America Parkway by Tasman Drive and Old Glory Lane. Pickup will begin at 10 pm on Patrick Henry Drive. Please refer to the map and directions below.

All accessible parking will be directed to Green Lot 1. Guests who possess a valid placard will be directed to park and must display their placard at the entrance to be admitted.

All accessible parking will be directed to Red Lot 1. Guests who possess a valid placard will be directed to park in this lot and must display their placard at the entrance to be admitted.

Levi’s® Stadium takes pride in providing elite service to all guests including those requiring mobility assistance. We provide a variety of services for our guests with special needs. Included in these services are courtesy shuttle buses from selected parking lots, golf cart shuttles in the Main lot, and Guest Services representatives to provide wheelchair service if requested. Guests that require additional assistance are encouraged to contact our mobility assistance team at 408-579-4610 or email [email protected] .

Early merchandise sales will begin on Thursday, July 27th from 10:00 AM to 7:00 PM in Red Lot 1. Parking lots will open for this event at 8:00 AM in Red Lot 1.

Show day merchandise sales will be available at 2:00PM and will remain open until the end of the show. Merchandise will be located in Red Lot 1 as well as inside the stadium for fans with tickets. Parking will not be available in Red Lot 1 for fans without a ticket. Fans will not be permitted to line up earlier than 2:00PM. Restrooms and water for purchase will be available near the merchandise areas.