{"id":107483,"date":"2019-08-26T01:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/08\/26\/rob-auton-the-time-show-review-twinkling-hour-of-clock-watching\/"},"modified":"2019-08-26T01:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T23:01:23","slug":"rob-auton-the-time-show-review-twinkling-hour-of-clock-watching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=107483","title":{"rendered":"Rob Auton: The Time Show review \u2013 twinkling hour of clock-watching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Assembly George Square Studios, EdinburghIn a wistful show with playful paradoxes, the comic ruminates on the little round face on our wrists and what it means\u2018Did the people who set time going really think time would stand the test of time?\u201d Rob Auton\u2019s The Time Show is full of playful paradoxes such as this. With its multiple related meanings, time lends itself to wordplay. Between its colossal role in our lives and our uncertainty as to what (or whether) it is, there\u2019s fruitful terrain for comedy. Or poetry, in which Auton also trades. His lilting, reflective shows aren\u2019t just about laughter, they\u2019re about lyricism and naive wonder, too.We\u2019re in wistful territory then: The Time Show is so full of wist it spills over. There\u2019s enough for you to take some home. It finds Auton checking the audience\u2019s watches while pondering how we all (billionaires and criminals; leavers and remainers) agree about this thing called time. Why? And \u201cwhat is time without numbers? Maybe it\u2019s like painting without numbers.\u201d More expressive. Freer. Up to us. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/aug\/26\/rob-auton-the-time-show-review-assembly-george-square-studios-edinburgh-festival-2019\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Auton: The Time Show review \u2013 twinkling hour of clock-watching<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assembly George Square Studios, EdinburghIn a wistful show with playful paradoxes, the comic ruminates on the little round face on our wrists and what it means\u2018Did the people who set time going really think time would stand the test of time?\u201d Rob Auton\u2019s The Time Show is full of playful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}