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Doctor Brown: Befrdfgth
6 Aug 2012
Free spirit gets the audience playing along
The evocatively entitled Befrdfgth doesn’t open with a fanfare, a burst of music or even a lighting cue. Instead, the curtain at the back of the stage twitches, almost imperceptibly, and a nose is glimpsed in the ensuing gap. The curtain balloons…
Doctor Brown
8 Aug 2011
Silent and vulgar tedium
Surrealism and silent comedy have a long and healthy relationship. Ask Mack Sennett, Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton. You’d have to dig them up first, but that may be preferable to spending time with the hirsute Doctor Brown. In his silk dressing gown…
The shocking, rude and offensive highlights of the 2011 Edinburgh Fringe
6 Jul 2011
The controversial shows of Edinburgh Fringe 2011
If boundary-pushing comedy is your thing, or if you just like smutty jokes, you’ll no doubt find a suitably impolite act at the Fringe. Jonny Ensall ranks 2011’s controversial shows by their level of offensiveness
