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Threeweeksin EDINBURGH YOUR DAILY SHEET OF EDINBURGH FESTIVAL REVIEWS: #21 THURSDAY 26/FRIDAY 27 AUG IN EDINBURGH ThreeWeeksCABARET The Bongo Club Cabaret I like cabaret, especially when it’s loud, Last night’s audience colourful and funny (perhaps even making the audience participate a tad more than CALLED THE SHOW they were expecting to). By that definition, The Merm The Merrier last night’s cabaret at the Bongo Club was “about mermaids & vengeance” a wonderful experience, showcasing some of the Fringe’s most entertaining acts. Our What will tonight’s musical be? host, Dusty Limits, has a biting sense of Gilded Balloon Teviot 10.50pm humour and an incredibly luscious singing www.showstoppermusical.com voice; combine the two and what you get is a song about the ‘Twelve Days Of Fringe,’ complete with deprecating comments about student stand ups. Acts such as ‘The Not Quite Quartet’ and the ‘3 Gaga Heads’ stood out, but my personal favourite was Piff The Magic Dragon who got me on stage to do tricks with him. The Bongo Club, 7 – 30 Aug (not 14, 20), 10.15pm, £7.00 - £8.00, fpp 233. [ms] tw rating 4/5 CHILDREN’S SHOWS SNAP OF THE DAY: The Janey Godley guest edited ThreeWeeks weekly edition The Dandelion Story Modl Theatre (Korea) is out now, pick up a copy and plan your final Fringe weekend.Photo: Kate Edwards Quite simply, this show is a breath of fresh air. Amid a children’s programme packed with fairytale parodies and book adaptations, Pinocchio Indefinite Articles job game. Brilliant for all with a passion for this inventive and refreshingly insightful story COMEDY improv, but perfect for those who fear its hit involving mesmerising physical theatre really Rarely can a chunk of wood be loveable, but and miss nature. stands out. If you can get over the fact that this show gives the famous wooden boy such Ava Vidal: Lessons I Should Have Learnt heart that every child in the room will fall The Stand Comedy Club, 7, 8, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 29 the protagonist is a ‘doggy poo’, you can’t Ava Vidal/ The Stand Comedy Club Aug, 12.30pm (1.55pm), free, fpp 64. [tv] help but be charmed by the sunny, infectious in love with him. One man in his workshop Ava Vidal’s ‘Lessons I Have Learnt’ is a crash tw rating 4/5 radiance of the actors and the play’s message tells of Pinocchio’s adventures from his ‘birth’ to his encounters with dubious folk; course in how accomplished comedy requires that everything in the world has a use and both strong jokes and a dynamic stage is meaningful. Beautifully staged, lit and the workshop is life-size, but doubles as a Hans Teeuwen: Smooth And Painful stage on which Geppetto can play puppet- presence. Vidal’s material suffers because choreographed, you’ll be treated to a celestial of her nervousness, her tremulous voice and Bound & Gagged Comedy By Arrangement With light show, bubbles raining from the ceiling master, using various tools and seemingly Debi Allen Associates unimportant objects to bring characters awkward pauses slackening her comedic and that satisfying feeling of warm fuzziness. momentum and thwarting her punchlines. Teeuwen’s surrealist approach to stand Visually and conceptually, it’s thought- such as Jiminy Cricket to life. The play also up will leave some in fits of hysterics and combines this inventive puppetry with a Her show centres on an account of a horrific provoking, surprising, and wholly deserving of love affair, a story that is gripping, but again, others bemused in what has to be one of large audiences both young and old. Go see. shadow puppet sequence, enthralling the the strangest comedy shows at the Fringe. audience with stunning visuals. The live Vidal sabotages its flow by pausing to show C, 15 – 30 Aug, 1.50pm (2.40pm), £5.50 - £10.50, fpp embarrassing, resolutely unfunny, unrelated With an emphasis on physical comedy, he 10. [gjs] music adds to what can only be described combines exaggerated facial expressions as a constantly surprising and atmospheric video clips. What’s frustrating is that Vidal’s tw rating 4/5 with obscure and often unintelligible interpretation of a well-loved classic. patter is intelligent, original and pleasingly caustic, with much more genuine insight and character voices to create a fantastically Zoo Roxy, 6 – 24 Aug, 10.20am (11.20am), £6.50, fpp absurd set. His use of song works to great The Jungle Book: The Next Chapter 15. [cnm] wit than many of the burgeoning stand ups at the Fringe. A very funny, polished show lurks comedic effect, aptly fitting his style and Glenn Elston and the Australian Shakespeare Co tw rating 4/5 within ‘Lessons.’ Here’s hoping it eventually providing some of the highlights of the show. Walking into the auditorium I had high hopes: gets out. However, in places it feels like Teeuwen is a smoky stage, low lighting, jungle noises Prince of Cringe Gag Reflex Management essentially pulling faces and saying words and foliage formed a tropical atmosphere. The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 5 – 29 Aug, 3.15pm The ‘Prince of Cringe’ is delightful, and I (4.15pm), £8.00, fpp 30. [kc] in an abstruse manner to get laughs, while However, this is a chronic case of commercial there are also moments when the shock never thought I’d use those words in the tw rating 3/5 style over substance; the multimedia aspect factor is just too high. is merely an intricate PowerPoint, the original same sentence. I’m not kidding; Sam Wills tells the story of a Prince’s journey home Pleasance Courtyard, 4 – 29 Aug (not 11, 18, 25), songs are unremarkable, the plot line of Free & Easy – Free 10.30pm (11.30pm), £8.00 - £15.00, fpp 69. [aq] using circus tricks, an enjoyable method an adult Mowgli visiting Baloo to reminisce Stu and Garry/ The Stand Comedy Club of narrative illustration. Two simple art tw rating 3/5 over his jungle days is lazy, while the over- I know it’s a cliché, but what a lovely way enthusiastic use of water-pistols makes forms are combined to give what could be a simple show comedic and cringe-worthy to start the day? It was so refreshing to several young children cry. It was perhaps see these two comics avoid all the pitfalls unfortunate that the crowd was unusually substance. I did cringe several times, but not IT ALL ENDS HERE… due to embarrassment or the desire to be that seem commonplace in most improv reserved, as the performance relies heavily comedy; there was no patchy dialogue with on audience participation, but although the elsewhere; some of Wills’ tricks look genuinely painful (he was bleeding and sweating by questionable grammar or syntax, overly Well, sort of. This is the last installment of the actors work valiantly to keep the pace, the melodramatic acting and dialogue or a lack ThreeWeeks Daily Edition for Fringe 2010. material is just too poorly crafted to fully the end), but he pulls them off with ease and humour. This is not slick theatre, but Wills is of pleasant, consistent flow. They had such But more reviews will appear in the eDaily engage anyone. Better to stay at home and good rapport and natural understanding of each day through to Monday, so sign up at watch the original. an absorbing and entertaining performer who is definitely not just for children. each other that one would be forgiven for www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/subscribe. And do Gilded Balloon Teviot, 4 – 30 Aug (not 16, 23), thinking it had been scripted and rehearsed. remember to pick up the final weekly edition 11.30am (12.30pm), £5.00 - £8.00, fpp 13. [gjs] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 5 – 29 Aug, 12.15pm (1.15pm), £6.00 - £8.00, fpp 16. [cnm] Each round was given a task such as guess of 2010 to help you plan your final Fringe tw rating 2/5 the audience super power, weakness and day weekend. tw rating 4/5 MORE REVIEWS PLUS NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS: WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK Legend of the Card Ninja with attitude and humour in a show that has Deathwish The Rep Theatre Company costumes that perfectly suit the characters showing I would have willingly sat through it, Javier Jarquin more musical surprises and mood swings This new play, written and directed by Jack and extremely believable acting give depth to ‘no regrets’. ‘Ninnnjjaaa’. Harvey tells the story of his love than a foul-mouthed episode of ‘Glee’. World Fookes, deals with the fraught subject of the relationship between the two characters. theSpaces on the Mile @ The Radisson, 23 – 28 Aug, 7.00pm, £7.00, fpp 262. [cm] of cards and magic and his engagement, Domination beckons. euthanasia. A star rugby player is injured, Each element of the scene seems to be the all the while cleverly illustrating the story theSpaces@ Surgeons Hall, 16 – 28 Aug, 9.05pm resulting in quadriplegia and a difficult decision. result of a weighed directing choice, whose tw rating 5/5 (9.55pm), £10.00, fpp 217. [cnm] with card tricks, as well as completing five The company of young actors deals quite purpose is to highlight the text and transmit its message to the audience. Half an hour of ninja trials to prove his worth. However, I’m tw rating 4/5 sensitively with the difficult subject, portraying The Peddler’s Tale In Extremis Theater Company theatre “bien fait”. not sure I would describe him as a ninja: his characters and situations light years away A mysterious rendering of the classical Venue 13, 22 – 29 Aug, 6.30 pm (7.00pm), tricks, which I am sure require a lot of skill, do from their life experiences.
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