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IN EDINBURGH GET THREEWEEKS CHILDREN’S SHOWS Ed Byrne: Crowd Pleaser ThreeWeeksPhil McIntyre Entertainments By Arrangements With DIRECT TO YOUR IN-BOX Vivienne Smith Management A Timetraveller’s Guide To There are even more reviews in the Talented and renowned comedian Ed Byrne Surviving Childhood returns to the Fringe with a new set of ThreeWeeks eDaily email. Swan Picnic / PBH’s brilliant material. Topics such as current Sign up right now for free at A show featuring a camp Blackbeard affairs, adorably nerdy dilemmas and family www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/eDaily teaching children how best to maim their life are tackled, and each and every joke is opponents, and Freud delivering a sermon on told with the liveliness, style and zeal that are cakes, has undeniable potential. At times this so characteristic of the comedian. Byrne’s show is genuinely funny, but unfortunately expert performance not only lives up to it also features some lazy jokes and clumsy its name in ‘pleasing’ the crowd, but goes national stereotyping. The unnecessarily beyond it, prompting continuous laughter obnoxious American Zack’s very inclusion in from beginning to end, to the extent that it events—framed by a history lesson led by two provokes teary eyes and aching jaws. The stuffy English professors—is frankly bizarre. only downside is that it simply does not Much of the humour is either predictable seem to last long enough, and the hour or overdone, but there are a few delightful is gone too quickly; but what else can one moments, especially when the earnest expect from a crowd pleaser? Time flies. performers appear to have fun with the Venue150 @ EICC, 3 – 27 Aug (not 10), 7.40pm show and enjoy the audience interaction. (8.40pm), £15.50 - £18-50, fpp69. tw rating 5/5 [ma] Arrive early as the children at the front received the most attention and clearly got Edinburgh Bloody Edinburgh the best out of the show. Davytheghost Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 5 - 29 Aug (not 7, 14, 21, 28), A gripping hour of gruesome stories is 2.30pm (3.30pm), free, fpp29. tw rating 3/5 [hw] delivered by an historian who unashamedly blends blood with puns and props. Filling COMEDY his stories with gory details and cheap gags, the involved descriptions of finger- bursting thumbscrews and eyes burnt out Damian Clark: Stand Up Damian Clark with quicklime will particularly appeal to A popular beer brand currently has the horror fans. ‘Edinburgh Bloody Edinburgh’ slogan ‘Good Call’. Picture the two Australian is occasionally let down by Davytheghost’s men in this advert. Imagine one of them delivery, which lacks variety in tone and at without hair and you’ll have Damian Clark’s times feels hurried, while at one point, he long-lost twin. Smiley, light-hearted and clunkily switches to a first-person narrative affable, Clark greets everyone entering this for the perspective of Burke the body- obscenely hot venue; his charm is put even snatcher, but this does not fit well with more on display when he instantly donates his other stories. Delivery aside, this is his bottle of water to a fainting audience an entertaining show that will shock and member. His best moments occur during his amuse, and the final story definitely deserves interactions with the audience; he is fantastic to be told to a full room. at improvising and possesses natural The Wee Windaes, 5 – 29 Aug, 6pm (7.30pm) and comedic flair. Inoffensive, conventional and 7.15pm (8.45pm), £10.00 - £12.00, fpp70. tw rating SNAP OF THE DAY: Laura Hayden appears in enjoyable, his sunny observational humour is 3/5 [jfb] perfect for a group of friends with different ‘I Didn’t Mean To Be A Virgin In The 80s at Sweet tastes. Not ground-breaking material, but 5-Step Guide To Being German – nevertheless feel-good and fun, Clark is a Free Grassmarket. Photo: Stuart Armitt definite ‘Good Call’. Paco Erhard / Free Festival Teviot, Aug 10-28 10pm, £7.00-9.00, With jokes about the War alongisde a Fpp.62 tw rating 4/5 [lmm] healthy sprinkling of F-words and C-words, Tonight’, a TV-format talk-show that previews AAA Batteries (Not Included) it seems that this free show takes no time acts every evening from across the Festival. Liam Williams, Chris Turner, Adam Hess to get stuck into the predictable. And yet Finnish a capella group Fork kick off the Des Bishop – My Dad Was This audience-participation show was, sadly, Erhard manages to present an amusing proceedings tonight with an impressively Nearly James Bond hit-or-miss. Of the hits: Liam Williams. Having account of the expected nationalist clichés original version of ‘Toxic’, while poet Eric Off The Kerb Productions created the best audience rapport, as well without depending on them entirely; his Davidson performs a moving piece about as being the most natural on stage, Williams Laughter is the best medicine and it certainly sharp and recognisably cringeworthy how Edinburgh locals should embrace the is the true highlight of this show. Although works here. Des Bishop delivers a fine-tuned observations of the British on holiday serve Festival. The show finished with Tom Stade Chris Turner shows much promise initially insight into his childhood, his family and his only to gauge his capacity to identify the cracking hilarious ‘married jokes’ to a and finishes with a sensational finale, his father’s diagnosis with terminal lung cancer. strangeness of stereotyping nations. A laughing unmarried audience. It feels a bit pun-tastic routine becomes slightly soggy Not a typical topic for a comedy show, but clever closing unifying twist demands a like being in a television studio, and hosts in the middle. The final act, Adam Hess, then this is no ordinary comedian. With a rethink of the whole show. Can there really Joe Simmons and Lorraine Chase (the struggles to find his rhythm throughout an core message about family relationships be just five steps to becoming part of a latter presumably more used to being the ill-structured routine, though he eventually and making each moment count, Bishop’s nation? Find out, and try to bag yourself a interviewee) handle unexpected technical manages to squeeze a few laughs from show is a charmingly funny tribute to his dad. good seat - or, perhaps, lounger (towels not blunders like pros. You will be delighted not the audience. Perhaps a simple switch of Avoiding over-sentimentality, the comedian necessary). only with the free tickets every act hands performers would solve many of this show’s generates laughter from the topics of dodgy Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 5 – 28 Aug (not out, but also with the celebrity interviews, 8, 13, 20, 27), 6.00pm (6.45), free, fpp75. tw rating shortcomings, which is bound to get better 80s fashion, the emotionless Irish and his and snippets of music, dance and comedy. 4/5 [lc] with each day of the festival. See it, but leave father’s brief acting career. There is good SpaceCabaret, 5 - 27 Aug (not 22), 4.50pm the kids at home. reason why Des Bishop packs out a venue. (5.45pm), £7.00 - £10.00, fpp70. tw rating 4/5 [tw] With a grand finale that is far from shaken Edinburgh Tonight With Joe Laughing Horse – Meadow Bar, 4 – 28 Aug, 2.45pm and stirred, this show will make you walk out Simmons and Lorraine Chase (3.45pm), free, fpp32. tw rating 3/5 [ae] smiling. Any newcomer to the Festival should start Pleasance Courtyard, 3 - 14 Aug, 9.10pm, £12.50 - their Edinburgh experience with ‘Edinburgh £14.00, fpp66. tw rating 5/5 [ep] for quick recommends www.twitter.com/twittique

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MORE REVIEWS PLUS NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS: WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK A Betrayal Of Penguins: kind of show where one can just switch off MUSICALS & OPERA and utterly delightful, and the fact that these The Infant Endangered For A Reason and let the entertainment wash over you, are not professional actors, but teachers Les Infants Terribles Theatre and sometimes at the Festival, this is exactly and social workers, adds a wonderful sense Betrayal Of Penguins Sunday In The Park With George Dark, macabre and thrilling, ‘Les Infants what is needed. of authenticity to Chekhov’s tales of comic Terribles’ know how to put on a show. The When a zombie outbreak happens at the One Academy Productions provincial characters. Go for the gardens, Laughing Horse @ The Beehive Inn, 4 - 28 Aug, stagecraft of this play puts it a cut above Oscars and two sports commentators try This is a charming musical that brings to for the beauty, and for the joy of this play. 4.15pm (5.15m), free, fpp8. tw rating 3/5 [im] average; the sound is thrilling, and the to kill one another, you know that you’re life Georges Seurat’s famous painting, and Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden, 2 - 6 Aug, carefully considered set with a black block, witnessing a very different kind of sketch focuses on the artist’s obsession with his 12.30pm ((1.45pm), £5.00 - £7.00, fpp267. tw rating Oliver Meech : Live Brain Surgery two doors and lights hanging low look creepy show. Betrayal Of Penguins bring a chaotic work. The wonderfully talented cast lives 4/5 [jl] – Free and enable slick scene changes. The play bunch of sketches to the stage, wherein up to the task of performing the musically focuses of the paranoia of Samedi and playing a female character means removing Oliver Meech/ Laughing Horse Festival challenging Sondheim classic, with its The Life And Times Of Albert Castogen - self appointed justice seekers your trousers and one character in every Despite both Oliver Meech’s medical attire fast-paced lyrics and alarmingly diverse Lymes – Free - over a drawing they believe relates to scene requires a ridiculous accent. Aaron and the title’s suggestion of on-stage range of notes. For this, it is hard not to be Tin Shed Theatre Co/Laughing Horse Free Festival terrorism, but which is actually the work of Heffernan in particular displays an excitable neurosurgery, it transpires that ‘Live Brain impressed. Likewise, the faultless band help a four-year-old boy. The audience are drawn comedic style very similar to that of Lee Surgery’ is in fact a more abstract affair. contribute to what is ultimately a very good This is a hyperactive little one-man psychological comedy. Actor Justin Cliffe in as the characters lose all grip on reality. Evans, making his performance a definite Using a combination of brain-related trivia show. Having said this, for me it was too offers us a dozen characters who all bother Witty and aesthetically excellent, Oliver highlight. A superb and jaw-achingly hilarious and a penchant for psychological magic, this long – by the end, many of the performers’ poor Albert Lyme, a dull neurotic on a Langley’s play draws your attention to the hour of comedy, that, for all its mayhem, is show aims to baffle and amuse with a series voices were feeling the strain, and I’m very bad day; Lyme is endearing, however, excesses of society. Good theatre is not one the perfect sketch show. These boys are set of audience-participation tricks. Meech is dubious as to whether it was worthy of the because everyone else in his world is so of them, so buy a ticket. to have a great month, so don’t miss out! funny and endearing, peppering the gig with standing ovation given to it by some of the much worse. It’s part confession and Pleasance Courtyard, 3 - 29 Aug (not 15, 16), Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 - 29 Aug (not 19, 20), a lot of well-pitched gags and foreshadowing audience at the end. 5.45pm (6.45pm), £7.50 - £9.50, fpp48. tw rating part pantomime, as we’re carried along 2.35pm (3.35pm), £9.00 - £11.00, fpp271. tw rating further tricks with impressive showmanship. C, 3 – 29 Aug (not 15, 22), 3.35pm (5.35pm), £8.50 - 4/5 [sm] 5/5 [lam] on Cliffe’s rapid fire expressions; he’s However, this show uses many techniques £14.50, fpp234. tw rating 4/5 [ch] indebted to Terry Jones most of all, with we’ve seen before and one can’t help but his screeching falsetto when imitating Liberace: Live From Heaven ACME Stand-up think this is like a smaller-scale Derren women, his explosive grunting, and Lyme’s Norwell Lapley Productions Ltd Alex Clissold-Jones, Chris Turner and Matt Brown performance. Nevertheless, the THEATRE bravura tics. He deals well with a couple Richardson concept is fun, the audience are impressed I walked through the wind and rain to see a of mistakes and missed cues, moving too Standard yet polished comedy fare is in and Meech’s presentation is excellent - well tribute act to Liberace in a two thirds empty Subsist DBS Productions fast to linger on them. With visual tricks - a abundance in this three-piece stand-up worth a look. lecture theatre. Stephen Fry’s voiceover We are sitting in complete darkness. This Scrabbleboard becomes a newspaper - and show. Compere Matt Richardson engages Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 5 - 28 Aug (not as St Peter booms out, judging whether darkness seems to go on forever. Before the charmingly deliberate plot holes, this show the audience well with his likeable banter – a 16), 6.30pm (7.30pm), free, fpp5. tw rating 4/5 [ec] Liberace should enter heaven. The whole show has even begun, I am getting tingles is full of life. word the first comedian Alex Clissold-Jones thing feels like a panto for grown-ups; one down my arms. John-David Henshaw’s would no doubt cringe at, as this and several Laughing Horse @ Cafe Renroc, 5 - 19 Aug, 6.05pm woman bursts into tears. Everything here beautifully written script, telling the story of (7.05pm), free, fpp275. tw rating: 3/5 [gl] other fairly well-trodden comedy routines are DANCE & PHYSICAL THEATRE is cheap: the jokes, the set, the music. But four survivors struggling to live in a world discussed in his set. Nevertheless, a few big there’s no reason to sneer over such things. that ended two years ago, ensures that this laughs still surface from his performance, Tin Girl Story The hour includes on-stage banter, catty Pinocchio: A Fantasy Of Pleasures sensation continues for the best part of an but none quite so large as with the final Don’t Look Up Theatre Company gossip, smile-inducing sing-a-longs and at the Company XIV hour. With characters that balance each comedian Chris Turner. With his mixture With all the substance of a romantically end, a sublime simultaneous defence of both Carved from a block of wood, Pinocchio other out to the point of perfection, you will of puns and deadpan humour, Turner is thwarted Mills and Boon novel, ‘Tin Girl homosexuality and staying in the closet. This springs to life, bouncing and jittering around find yourself connecting and sympathising the closest to something truly original and Story’ was well intentioned but ultimately is a valiant defence of the gaudy and uncool, the stage. Far from a tiny Italian village, the with them more than you ever thought innovative in the show. Like most ACME disappointing. The intriguing premise lacked against the mocking over-dogs of taste and world into which he is born is decadent and possible. The quality acting combined with an products, this fails to go off with a big bang, depth and the clunky circular narrative aesthetic decorum. It’s also just great fun. majestic, filled with sumptuous Venetian intimate venue and stark stage and lighting but it is certainly still an entertaining hour of remained as two-dimensional as the Assembly George Square, 3 - 28 Aug, 6.25pm masks and intricate, twirling red ribbons. help contribute to this complete immersion free comedy. characters. Although Kate Gilbert did give (7.55pm), £12.00 - £14.00, fpp274. tw rating 4/5 [jh] Yet once the puppet dares to delve into the in the modern horror that is unlike anything I The Newsroom, 5 – 28 Aug, 7:45pm (8:45pm), free, a consistent - and at times even entrancing realm of “Pleasure Island”, his surroundings have seen before. fpp33 tw rating 3/5 [ljc] - performance, she was ultimately hindered Lights, Camera, Walkies begin to resemble a dark and seedy biker’s Sweet Grassmarket, 4 - 21 Aug, 7.00pm (8.00pm), by somewhat cumbersome, overindulgent Festival Highlights club, with dominatrices cracking leather £7.00 - £9.00, fpp301. tw rating 4/5 [ch] An Austrian, An Italian And whips. An artistic delight, this neo-baroque writing. Michael Cretu’s fantastical timbres ‘Lights, Camera, Walkies’ is the tale of created some interest in what could have Someone From Slough production is a ravishing fusion of opera, The Curse Of Macbeth two rival dog trainers competing to land been an otherwise tedious performance, their prized pooches the starring role in a Cecilia Delatori, Giacinto Palmieri, Alice Frick ballet, commedia dell’arte, street dance, Cambridge University ADC burlesque, and Fellini-inspired surrealism. and his longer melodic passages wove a Hollywood blockbuster. The vaguely satirical The title of this show really says it all, and This is Macbeth seen through a shattered Indulge your visual and aural fantasies beautiful yet tragic aesthetic. That said, the piece is written by Tom Glover, finalist in there’s unfortunately not much more in the looking glass. Screams, whispers, and with this extravagant performance packed production was almost comically over- the BBC’s sitcom competition. Anyone way of depth. But as our guitar-strumming horrible faces haunt the stage through with spectacular pirouetting and sensual, sensualised and instances of rhyme felt who’s seen any recent BBC sitcoms won’t host Cecilia (someone from Slough) meets a series of nightmarish mirrors in this seamless movement. The fairytale is uninspiring and leaden. If you like inoffensive be surprised to learn that the writing’s not and greets, we’re treated to some beautifully astonishing reworking of Shakespeare’s play. reinvented magnificently. cabaret or depressing romances then you great; it’s an entertaining story, but a lot of quaint and charming acoustic music. After The original script is effectively condensed, might not find yourself entirely disappointed. the jokes are pretty hackneyed. However, settling us with some stories about her New Town Theatre, 4 - 28 Aug, 7.00pm (8.10pm), £12.00 - £14.00, fpp175. tw rating 4/5 [fm] shot through with dissonant songs and black Zoo Southside, 5 - 15 Aug, 4.00pm the material is elevated by the talented cast hometown (where the first Mars Bar was humour, creating an astonishingly intense (4.55pm), £6.00 - £8.00, fpp304. tw rating of three (including Glover himself), whose manufactured), she introduces an exuberant experience. The murky happenings behind 2/5 [jlb] performances frequently amuse. Particularly and perfectly pitched Austrian comic Alice the mirrors dominate each scene, lending strong is Richard David-Caine, whose Frick. Italian comedian Giacinto Palmieri’s EXHIBITIONS new, horrifying interpretations and almost We Draupadi’s and Sitas turns as one of the trainers and various academic investigation into language proves, overshadow an excellent cast. The piece has flamboyant directors provide many of the Kali Theatre (India) at times, fascinating. The show is let down, Anish Kapoor: Flashback a terrible energy, quickly transforming the highlights. It’s no mongrel, but it’s far from however, by its -influenced content, Kapoor is an artist at the top of his game. stage - and the characters – and sending Shomshuklla’s hour long exploration ‘woman’ pedigree. with many gags about specifically English ‘Flashback’ is a small exhibition, featuring them on a hellish descent into madness, was delicately effective. Three generations Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 - 29 Aug (not 10, 17), preoccupations and Hackney cabs; it’s a only two works, but the two complement dragging the audience with them. This is a of Indian women confidently reassessed the 2.00pm (3.15pm), £8.00 - £10.00, fpp275. tw rating shame more effort didn’t go into broadening 3/5 [im] each other perfectly. The first is an early bold, electrifying take on Macbeth and every female perspectives of Draupadi and Sita, its appeal to a wider audience. work entitled ‘White Sand, Red Millet, Many element is seemingly flawless. I strongly the women of patriarchal Indian epic tales Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 4 – 28 Aug, urge you take a step through this looking ‘The Ramayana’ and ‘The Mahabharata’. Lost In Mozart 6:30pm (7:30pm), free, fpp41. tw rating 3/5 [ajl] Flowers’ (1982), a collection of four pigment sculptures. These are at once natural in glass. The enchantingly beautiful Sita, played Angry Young Men by Sohini Mukherjee, shone throughout, appearance and abstract, and seem so The Playhouse at Hawke and Hunter Green Room, Brimming with ideas, Angry Young Men’s A Mixed Bag 3 - 29 Aug (not 15), 4.00pm (5.10pm) , £9.50 - emotionally and quite literally, as all the fragile that one could imagine a small gust of play mixes a string quartet with gangster Laughing Horse Free Festival £10.50, fpp252. tw rating 5/5 [jc] women were costumed in resplendent, wind blowing them away. Juxtaposed against rap in a homage to West Side Story. shimmering dresses. ‘We Draupadi’s and It can be depressing when comedians lower this is ‘Untitled’ (2010). At over 5 metres Unfortunately the play doesn’t live up to the The Dipper - Free Sitas’ was an engaging account of what it your expectations before you even enter the tall this giant blood-red “self-generating” wax promise of the premise; many of its ideas means to be a woman, and was incredibly room. Arrogance can be wearying. Shame, sculpture couldn’t be more different from Homewood Rose Theatre Company/Laughing seem rough and undeveloped: it crowbars Horse Free Festival heartfelt and thought provoking, despite then, that Paul Langton, our first comic, the former work and highlights the artistic in the quartet’s presence with a throwaway some nerviness in the performance, and the is the standard cookie-cutter aggressive development of Kapoor’s career. Be sure “Where would all you journalists be without line in the first scene, and by token of setting at times obscure nature of the monologues. ‘DON’T YOU HATE THE ROYAL WEDDING?’ to head up to the balcony to appreciate the people like me?” asks one of the characters. the play in London’s Mozart estate. The by- Given the sensitive subject matters comedian. He’s like a macho Stewart Lee, great view from above. What would the Fringe be without shows the-numbers plot progression feels less like involved, Shomshuklla bravely presented with Lee’s lack of punchlines and attempted , 4 Aug – 9 Oct, like this? What the venue and acting skills a homage than a straight lift, and although Draupadi and Sita’s positions—one may emotional appeals to the audience, but then 10.00am (5.00pm), free, fpp n/a. tw rating lack, is made up for by enthusiasm and a it has a ripe setting, it feels as though the even say plights—and did so powerfully and he smothers his own sensitivity with gruff 4/5 [mp] wonderful script that is unconventional and contrasting themes of classical versus rap respectfully. masculine nonsense. The second comic, charming. The show consists of two sisters and art versus violence could have been Alex Love, is a constant apologist for himself, - one good, one bad - a lady, and the Yard. C eca, 3 - 16 Aug, 7.50pm (8.50pm), £6.50 - £9.50, better staged; too often they were viewed in Ingrid Calame fpp310. tw rating 3/5 [lc] his appearance, his jokes, his career, his Lace and trench coats put the audience isolation rather than in opposition. The Fruitmarket Gallery right into an Agatha Christie mood as venue, his everything. The biggest laugh in theSpaces on North Bridge, 5 - 27 Aug (not 7, 14, the entire show is when a member of the Making art out of the ground we walk on, they listen to the sisters arguing right and Wrens Tiny Teapot Theatre 21), 11.45am (12.45pm) £6.50 - £8.50, fpp277. tw audience says the phrase ‘bog salmon’. A American artist Ingrid Calame produces wrong. Is it better to live a decent life and Women of the Royal Navy have come to rating 2/5 [jfb] mixed bag? In terms of quality, no. beautifully abstract drawings and paintings deny who you are, or to be true to yourself enjoy the freedom and independence which The Three Sisters, 4 – 28 Aug, 6.15pm (7.15pm), free, with meticulousness. These works, created even if that means deceit and dishonesty? serving in the war has offered them. What fpp120. tw rating 1/5 [jh] between 1994 and 2011 - and including an Concentrating on the words, it makes for will they do when the war is over, when impressive wall drawing created especially charming and light afternoon entertainment. they have to return to their controlled and Around The World In 80 Men! - for the Gallery - are the result of an intricate Laughing Horse @ The Newsroom, 5 – 12 Aug, conventional lives? Seven women share 4.00pm (5.00pm), free, fpp256. tw rating 3/5 [vk] Free and obsessive process of tracing the a cabin on a navy base on Scapa; seven marks, stains and cracks on the ground Joanne Jollie characters share their lives. The actors of urban locations, and layering these into The Good Doctor delicately and carefully distinguish their In an absolutely jam-packed upstairs room of rich arrangements, or “constellations”. Theatre Alba particular characteristics from one another; a pub, Joanne Jollie entertains a receptive Her pencil drawings on tracing paper are Standing in a quiet, beautiful garden that dutiful, homely, vain or wild; all they have in Get lots more ThreeWeeks reviews crowd with enthralling tales about the delicate and topographical and fascinating to tumbles down towards a sparkling blue common is their love for cups of tea. The various men from her chequered dating in your inbox with the eDaily analyse and deconstruct, whilst her polished lake – Duddingston Kirk is certainly not stage is transformed into realistic and history. An eminently likeable lady, she ThreeWeeks.co.uk/edaily enamel paintings have bold, beautiful colour your typical Fringe venue. The village is just claustrophobic barracks, and uniformed has a fair set of pipes on her; this is amply palettes. Although the works are somewhat outside the city centre, eight minutes by women give hints of their fragility when they demonstrated when she illustrates her repetitive in their visual vocabulary, losing taxi or a picturesque walk through Holyrood gently sing longing tunes from the 1940s. ThreeWeeks Daily is published by tales by belting out a number of classic soul yourself in these wild landscapes of lines, Park. ‘The Good Doctor’ – a dramatisation All in all, a warm and insightful play. ThreeWeeks Publishing, a division of and disco hits, alongside three self-written shapes and colour is an entrancing visual of Chekhov’s short stories – is performed Sweet Grassmarket, 4 - 28 Aug (not 17), 5.50pm UnLimited Media, Unicorn House, 221 songs. Though the comedy in her act is experience. by a local amateur drama society and the (6.50pm), £9.00 - £7.00, fpp313. tw rating 4/5 [vk] Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6PJ. not particularly original, covering such The Fruitmarket Gallery, 5 Aug - 9 Oct, times vary, whole thing has the excited feeling of a Printing by Smart Design & Print. well-worn subjects as online dating, it is an free, ffp n/a. tw rating 4/5 [jb] charming village fete. The cast are hilarious entertaining, unchallenging show. It’s the Credits at www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/credits TW RATINGS EXPLAINED: 1/5 BAD | 2/5 MEDIOCRE | 3/5 GOOD | 4/5 VERY GOOD | 5/5 BRILLIANT