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Marcus Brigstocke: The Brig Society
6 Aug 2012
A jolly Big Society satire from the TV panel show regular
At one point in The Brig Society, TV talking-head comedy panelist Marcus Brigstocke hands a man in the front row his mic. ‘Tell us a joke!’, he beams enthusiastically. When the man can’t, Brigstocke acts surprised. ‘But... I’m empowering the…
Five Kids TV stars to catch at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2012
27 Jul 2012
Seen these folks on the box before? You must be a parent then
Dan Wright Fans of Big Cook, Little Cook might have difficulty recognising Mr Wright who played the latter given that he has shed his specs and is no longer three inches tall. Curiously, his Fringe show has a sort-of childlike theme given that it’s…
School for Scandal
13 Aug 2009
School for vandals
RB Sheridan’s classic comedy has much to recommend it in our current era of vacuous celebrity tittle-tattle and grotesque self-interest. Yet the normally admirable Cal McCrystal’s production seems to have read the text so radically against what it seems…
Marcus Brigstocke
10 Aug 2009
Preaching to the converted
In God Collar, Marcus Brigstocke treads the well-worn path of questioning religion, albeit with wistful curiosity rather than a Dawkins-style damnation of all things spiritual. Brigstocke wants something to fill an empty space in his soul, which lends…
