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24 Aug 2009
A damn fine, damn funny show combining quirky songs on guitar and banjo (plus a couple of invented instruments) with strange slide shows, photo stories and suggestions for a new dance craze. Learn about the former if.comedy Best Newcomer's suspiciously…
Opening with his weakest material - crowd-repelling tartan, bagpipe and clansmen stereotypes, and watery anecdotes about teen drinking disasters - this English stand-up is on shaky, confusing ground until he settles into more successful, far funnier…
23 Aug 2009
The Brothers Grimm liked to show the dark side of life in their twisted fairy tales, and have scared generations of small children silly with their stories of girl-eating wolves and cannibal women living in gingerbread houses. This family show from…
21 Aug 2009
Like a sort of sarcastic, deadpan orphan Annie, Helen Cripps and her comedy partner Alex Nash show real potential in this mini-comedy drama about a village radio show. Utterly crap phone-ins and jingles, not to mention visual gags and ‘I Saw You…
20 Aug 2009
In 1978, psychotherapist Susie Orbach wrote the bestselling Fat is a Feminist Issue, warning against dieting, and outlining the compulsive behaviour linked to eating disorders. Fast forward 30-odd years, and have we paid heed to her warnings? In her…
‘The reaction to Choke Chain has been positive and often emotional,’ says Glasgow-based author Jason Donald, whose first novel was published earlier this year. His debut is a tender, at times uncomfortable, coming-of-age tale of two brothers growing up…
Hypochondria, bulimia, dyslexia, paranoia; as stand-up material goes, it doesn’t exactly smack of a fun night out. Yet, in the hands of curly-topped Simon Amstell, neuroses and human failings are spun into a warm, intelligent and engaging hour of…
19 Aug 2009
Carmen, Renata and Silvia are intellectual, Italian lefties, and they want to make you think about current affairs, through spoof pop videos, bared boobs and free samples of Berlusconi’s sperm. With a Kabul-set Sex and the City remake, a bikini dance…
The Brighton funnyman brings a strong, very smoothly delivered set, with tales about being employed in a job centre, and snippets of internet forum abuse making for smart comedy fodder. A section with melodramatically soppy background music is a…
18 Aug 2009
Jonathan and his little brother, Rusky set off an adventure that changes their lives forever. It’s a tale of dragons and monsters, and the mighty Tengil who has the villagers of Nangilaya living in fear. The boys must man-up and fight back against…
This multi-accented, ‘Lego-haired’, prancing ex-chav turned Tolstoy reader delivers a guide to human behaviour, wondering why Daves and Garys pick on feminised modern men like himself, and why Brits secretly envy Aussies and Americans. He’s a natural…
Despite the misleadingly butch show title of Miss Machismo, Zoe Lyons thankfully goes easy on the cocky swagger in this show about women with an exaggeratedly massive masculine side. Instead, ‘the 81st most influential gay woman in Britain’ (so says The…
It’s ‘boysy’ humour, says Stuart Goldsmith, pointing out that their deliberately flimsy sketches are about pirates, cops and zombies. Goldsmith is ‘pretty’ and Richard Sandling is ‘fat’, he explains, pointing out their similarities to Corden and Horne.
A convoluted, surreal set from the Kent comic about a mad man he met in the post office, Darwinian evolution, and his grandma who once laid an egg through her mouth. It seems Howell’s just being weird for the sake of it, which is fine if it’s funny, but…
Suffering from the unholy trinity of being ginger, old and childless, Quinn believes she’s being hunted down as a witch. Singing Beyoncé-style pop ditties and 50s jukebox and jazz numbers, the angst-ridden Aussie nutjob retaliates with quirky material…
16 Aug 2009
This positively undreadful show spoofs Bond and Hitchcock movies, Dirty Harry and The Prisoner in a delightfully strange hour of stupidness. Set in the theme park of Beef Island, Paul (an 83/4-year-old small boy, played by the giraffe-like Humphrey Ker…
It’s a ‘semi-political’ show this year, announces Des Clarke (the neatly-eyebrowed one off the telly, not to be mixed up with the slightly less-tidily topiaried one from Neighbours). Des has booked himself a meeting with MSP Nicola Sturgeon in…
13 Aug 2009
How much information are you comfortable revealing to a complete stranger? How long can you stare back at someone in a candlelit booth? What tells are you giving with your body language? Belgian theatre company Ontroerend Goed want to dig these answers…
Susan Calman was once heckled by a guy who said he wouldn’t shag her if she was the last woman on earth. Taking his abuse as a launchpad, the premise of the pocket-sized Weegie’s show is that we’re all stuck in a bunker after a nuclear attack, and she…
12 Aug 2009
After her reading at the Book Festival last year, Chinese author Xiaolu Guo spent a lot of her Q&A session chatting about the literary headaches, not to mention boredom, created by translating from her first language, Chinese, into English. She had gone…
Like Flashdance set in a supermarket, with flashbacks to The Full Monty , Stuart Price’s play follows ex-boyband member Christian (Chris Grahamson), resurrecting the act to impress his daughter. Teasing with the promise of song and dance numbers, then…
11 Aug 2009
The guy biting his fist in the crowd, squealing ‘awkward!’ under his breath probably sums up Bethany Black’s show best. The self-proclaimed ‘hairy-arsed lesbian’ considers herself ‘a bit clever’, but is also very bitter and self-indulgent. A touching…
Forget ‘succeeding’ as good recyclers, yoga experts, or parents of Mensa babies; Rosie Wilkinson and Helen O’Brien struggle just ‘coping’. 2008’s sell-out duo return with new characters including an Eastern European nanny making extra cash from phone…
This embittered Geordie dole-blagger lost his job before the recession made it ‘fashionable’. 1993, actually. His puffed-up opinion of himself (‘ya brilliant basterd!’ he gushes, fantasising about getting his own TV show) and tweaked notions of heroism…
10 Aug 2009
In case anyone had forgotten which country brought us Bret, Jemaine and Murray from Flight of the Conchords, Rhys Darby aka band manager Murray, opened with a Crowded House song. Grinning like a dolphin, banging his heart with pride and lip-synching…
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