Isn’t it about time someone poked some well-deserved fun at broadcasting schedules, at just how manicured and pathetically committee-crafted some of the shows on the box are these days? read more
Tag: Underbelly
Lobster – EdFringe Review
I still believe I’ve found the gem of a show I’ve been longing to find at this year’s Fringe. It’s also fantastic to have come across a pearl of an actor in Gemma Harvey. Well done to whoever cast her. read more
Felix and the Scootermen: Self-Help Yourself Famous – EdFringe Review
In this new show, the two remaining Hoosiers, singer/guitarist Irwin Sparkes and drummer Alan Sharland, become Felix Scoot and Lee Delamere. They are here to instruct us, the audience, in the ways of fame and the perils that lurk therein. read more
Bumper Blyton – EdFringe Review
Bumper Blyton feels like an unnecessary addition to the already overcrowded improv field and might be better reworked as a devised production which makes a consorted effort to discover what are the key tropes, settings and archetypes across Blyton’s entire canon. read more
Austentatious – EdFringe Review
Austentatious fully deserves it place as a firm Fringe favourite and I warmly recommend it to all Austen devotees and anyone who should care to have their socks knocked off by six performers at the very top of the improv game. read more
Shit-Faced Shakespeare: Macbeth – EdFringe Review
Shit-Faced Shakespeare has no doubt popularised the Bard for a twenty-first century audience through a bawdy and direct reinterpretation of the text. read more