| 17 August 2009
RBS Main Stage
Saturday 15 August 18.30
Garrison arrived, luggage in hand, jeans three inches too short, bright red trainers and geeky specs: it was perfect.
The first ten minutes of the show were spent toying with the lady who was signing for the hearing impaired. He threw everything at her including a rushed and heavily descriptive version of the story of the Trojans. She didn’t falter once and the audience was as impressed with her as they were with Garrison.
He spent the entire hour telling a tale from Lake Wobegon, an extract from his latest book. With his incredible voice and charismatic charm the audience were hooked from beginning to end. Without any notes or aids, Garrison entertained us for a whole hour with such natural story-telling ability that it seems he is remembering the story as he is telling it.
His intelligence and wit flavours the tale and seemingly insignificant yet extremely funny details are woven throughout. Everything he says is essential to the telling of the tale and as he develops and builds details that eventually join together as one ridiculous situation after another is stacked on top of another for the final denouement that comes back to why Garrison didn’t get stressed when he missed his flight from Dublin by sixty seconds.
Garrison Keillor puts life in perspective so that when he has a little mishap like in Dublin airport he thinks back to Aunt Evelyn’s memorial service and nothing seems to be as bad as at first it might appear. It’s a lesson that we could all do with learning.
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