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IN EDINBURGH ThreeWeeksGET THREEWEEKS CHILDREN’S SHOWS COMEDY DIRECT TO YOUR IN-BOX Ian Billings: Dumbs Up! Bad Bread: TV Times There are even more reviews in the IRB Bad Bread ThreeWeeks eDaily email. At times very funny, at times groan-inducing In the Fringe programme ‘Bad Bread’ Sign up right now for free at (“that’s why they’re called groan-ups,” describe themselves as “an award-winning www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/eDaily quipped Billings as another moan rose from sketch-troupe”; go watch them and then the adults in the audience) this show was a you’ll understand why they might have mixture of hit and miss. While the children deserved a gong. In this third year at the enjoyed themselves, especially when asked fringe, the boys are aiming to get on TV and to participate in choruses of poetic gems like so we are treated to their possible pitches ‘There’s a Shark in the Toilet’, the convoluted for TV shows and advertisements. Utterly story that served as the finale failed to skewed and heavy on Pythonesque-puns, delight. For me, the problem was more that, ‘Bad Bread’ will have you wishing that they for a show claiming to “dumb up” rather than do, in fact, have their own TV show. Ever down, the content didn’t deliver. Labelling wondered what it would be like if Carlsberg all bullies Neanderthal “snot brains” for made concentration camps? Or if ‘Reservoir example, seemed a bit off. I might be asking Dogs’ featured the ‘Teletubbies’ in starring a bit much from an hour-long children’s roles? Now you can finally find out. I’m not show; nevertheless, I’d either change the title sure if I’d kill for a ticket but I’d certainly or the tune. maim for one. Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 - 29 Aug, 11.15am Underbelly Cowgate, 4 – 28 Aug, 5.45pm (6.45pm), (12.15pm), £7.00 - £9.00, fpp22. tw rating 2/5 [ka] £8.50 - £10.50 fpp42. tw rating 5/5 [cd]

Kreestan Sennakie’s Magical Chris McCausland – Big Time Story Emporium Bound And Gagged Comedy By Arrangement With Beyond Compere Quids In Theatre Company I can’t help but feel a little sorry for Kreestan. “I feel I should tell you that, yes, I am blind. When I reviewed him, his performance was Just in case some of you are sitting there undeniably hampered by the fact that the thinking ‘Christ, how drunk is this guy?’” audience consisted of one small boy, his So begins Chris McCausland’s offering of mother and grandmother, and me. This clever and endearingly self-deprecating led to one or two awkward moments when stand-up comedy. McCausland turns his he looked for audience participation that wry, honest wit to topics such as the male was never very forthcoming, but he pushed experience of Topshop and middle-class valiantly on with his act, consisting of stories groceries. His everyman humour can also be and magic tricks, aided by a giant orange slightly surreal, as he paints us pictures with dog called Milo. He was an engaging, likeable fantastical words and images. The effect is performer, but in all honesty, his illusions utterly charming and it’s almost impossible were pretty mediocre and depended entirely to dislike him. The vague theme of the on props that can be bought from any magic show is time and it’s bookended by lovely shop. That said, the small boy seemed happy anecdotes on the relativity of it. Indeed, this enough, and the show was very reasonably hour long show flew by, somewhat proving priced. McCausland’s point. Pleasance Courtyard, 3 - 28 Aug, (not 17), 7.00pm Who sent for the men in white theSpaces on North Bridge, 5 - 13 Aug (not 7), SNAP OF THE DAY: (8.00pm), £9.50 - £12.00, fpp57. tw rating 4/5 [ek] 11.10am (11.55am), £3.00 - £5.00, fpp24. tw rating 2/5 [im] coats? It’s ‘The Real Macguffins: Skitsophrenic’ at the Colm O’Regan: Dislike! The Hamwehads A Facebook Guide To Crisis Pleasance Courtyard. Photo: Kat Gollock Kat’s Whiskers Colm O’Regan It’s difficult to describe in a few words this I really hope Colm O’Regan’s tales of 1980s cute - if borderline nonsensical - show. Photoshop and comedy court cases are The Dog-Eared Collective: 4 Poofs And A Piano – Indeed, unlike many ‘children’s shows’, it’s true. We’re taken through a story of his You’re Better Than This Business As Usual certainly appropriate, and appeals to and life and of Ireland through the medium of Dog-Eared Collective Bound And Gagged Comedy holds the attention of the youngest audience Facebook and a PowerPoint, which is brilliant Flitting from one sketch to another with Camper than a row of tents, the former members. It opened promisingly, with well when it works, but dire when it doesn’t. lightning speed and delivering abstract, house band of Jonathon Ross’s BBC1 written, plot driving rhyme; but when this The only thing holding O’Regan’s show off-the-wall but hilarious performances, this show are appearing at the Fringe again subsided, it became much less engaging. As back is technical difficulties – that and the troupe leave you feeling like you’ve stepped with songs and, of course, dancing. Their one character in the tale rightly noted, “this too-formal feel of a university seminar we out of a comedy whirlwind. A myriad of frequent tongue-in-cheek crudeness may just gets weirder and weirder” – a statement all experience when faced with an overhead costumes, props, wigs and accents flit by not be to everyone tastes, but if you’re that summarised the mild pantomime projector. But the newborn medium of as these four incredibly talented comedians willing to look past this, then you’re in for an humour and eclectic range of characters Facebook for comedy is an effective one, and create ‘Snooker: The Musical’, an Italian hour of laughs and increasingly outrageous which left parents utterly bemused. However, O’Regan uses it with skill and good timing. version of ‘Top Gear’, and a short film about costume changes. Some of the songs lack this well-meaning children’s oddity has His short history of Ireland is particularly street dance with help from the audience. originality, for example ‘How To Write A Pop many of the right features for children’s captivating, and his creation of comic The scope of their material is diverse and Song’ is very much the kind of self-parodying entertainment – a little shorter and some characters makes us feel we really get to consistently funny, while the inventiveness of fare that has been available on YouTube more of that wicked opening rhyme and this know the comedian and his world. their many backgrounds and guises is to be for years. However, it’s not just for the could be a more memorable show. Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 – 29 Aug (not 16), 4:00pm marvelled at. The show is occasionally too songs’ content that people should consider Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4 – 18 Aug (5:00pm), £7.50 - £10.00, fpp59. tw rating 3/5 [ja] (not 15), 12:00pm (1:00pm), free, fpp22. tw rating fast-paced to quite keep up, but as you are seeing the show – there’s a tangible air of 2/5 [ck] speedily transported to the next scene, it’s professionalism that makes this show a impossible to dwell on this minor grievance. treat to watch. Underbelly Cowgate, 4 - 28 Aug (not 17), 4.00pm Pleasance Courtyard, 3 – 28 Aug (not 17), 6.00pm for quick recommends www.twitter.com/twittique (5.00pm), £8.00 (£10.00), fpp67. tw rating 4/5 [ec] (7.00pm), £12.50 - £15.00, fpp77. tw rating 4/5 [ljc]

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MORE REVIEWS PLUS NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS: WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK Frimston And Rowett Sammy J And Randy: Ricketts Robin Ince’s Struggle For written than performed: usage of “do Fetch not” and “cannot” doesn’t suit the oral Ever wanted to know every joke about birds Lane Brett Vincent For Get Comedy Existence Twa Dugs Theatre Company tradition. Despite this, Bellwood performs ever told? Come to Frimston and Rowett, Robin Ince / PBH’s Free Fringe ‘Fetch’ transcends the clichés of what Take the surreal odd-couple comedy of naturally and engagingly, never boring the who gleefully take the audience through a it means to be a Scottish man. Instead ‘Spaced’, add the musical crime caper of The relentlessly intelligent Robin Ince is audience with self-indulgence; reflections whirl of tight sketches that never overstay of revelling in the football violence and ‘The Producers’, sprinkle with boisterous, performing four different shows at the upon imagination, judgements and death their welcome. A marvellous opening sketch alcoholism seemingly often present in profane gags, and imagine the whole thing Fringe this year, but there was enough involve us all. Thought-provoking but not about birthday presents is reprised more Scottish drama, communication and family cast by the Muppets – and you’re still not delightful material in this one alone for six or terribly profound, polished but not exciting, than once with a new twist each time, and are the centrepiece of this moving tale. It even close to the bizarre genius of ‘Ricketts seven more. Ince, a fast-talking bibliophile, suggestive but not evocative, this show is the way in which the sketches are unified borders on the surreal as the two young Lane’. Sammy J is fast becoming a legend whose erudition was sorely wasted as a wonderfully understated glimpse into the through character repetition is clever and Scottish actors play with puppets and deliver – a brilliantly self-assured performer whose the warm-up man for Vernon Kaye’s everyday in us all. But then, you can just get never feels forced. If the endings to some the works of Rabbie Burns with a gusto every throwaway gesture is guaranteed to vapid television games hows, had such an that from having a chat down the pub, can’t of their sketches occasionally lack bite, this that would have made the bard proud, yet result in raucous rolling in the aisles. Randy, overactive, magpie-like train of thought that you? is only shown up by the strength of their for that matter, is – well, the funniest and he needed an extensive flipchart to remind there is no tartanry, just an honest attempt material, a sketch about the similarity of Greenside, 5 - 27 Aug (not 14, 21), 4.05pm to make human connections. If you haven’t most foul-mouthed purple puppet at the himself to cover every last fascinating but (5.05pm), £5.50 - £7.50, fpp242. tw rating 3/5 [mm] gangster nicknames—“No, not Johnny Thai, Fringe. My only complaint is that ‘Ricketts hilarious subject. His manic enthusiasm spent much time in Scotland, you’ll really Johnny Tie!”—being particularly brilliant. I Lane’ is nowhere near long enough – have to listen to understand everything was compelling and inspiring, and I left Caruso And The Monkey House can’t imagine the sun going down on these the scenes where the unlikely pair relax wishing that he were my wise lecturer or they’re saying; but even if you can’t glean any two comedians any time soon. together, baking, inventing board games and slightly eccentric uncle. A better title for Trial of the script, the pure sound of the language Just The Tonic At The Store, 4 - 29 Aug (not 16), singing songs, would keeping me laugh all this wonderful hour would be ‘Audience Prodigal Theatre Collaboration With Andrew G and the poetry is well worth the price of Marshall 7.00pm (8.00pm), £7.00 - £8.00, fpp80. night. A total triumph. Members’ Struggle For Leg Room’ – so get admission. tw rating 4/5 [sj] Udderbelly’s Pasture, 3 – 29 Aug (not 15), 6.00pm there early! This ambitious one-man show tells the Greenside, 5 - 27 Aug (not 14, 21), 12.40pm (1.30pm), £5.00 - £7.00, fpp262. tw rating 4/5 [tw] (7.00pm), £11.50 - £14.00, fpp146. tw rating 5/5 [eb] Buffs Club (RAOB), 7 - 10, 14 - 17, 21 - 24 Aug, scandalous true story of a 1906 court The Segue Sisters In… Jailbirds 9.30pm (10.30pm), free, fpp142. tw rating: 4/5 [jf] case, putting the audience in the role of The Segue Sisters Mark Nelson – Guilty Pleasure jury. The show is clearly a labour of love but Flesh Eating Tiger The hour I spent with the Segue Sisters was MZA Eric’s Tales Of The Sea – fails to delight due to a cumbersome script CalArts Festival Theater and the inflexibility of the sole performer. like my first bite of haggis: extremely bizarre A Submariner’s Tale Setting a play within a play on a stage with If imagining ‘The Scheme’ as ‘Friends’ with Whilst Ignacio Jarquin is charming as Italian but oh, so tasty. There can be no doubt that heroin makes you chuckle, as it does me, Eric no walls whilst you break the fourth wall their absurd humour isn’t for everyone, tenor Enrico Caruso, his attempts to create then Mark Nelson is the man for you. If you People say we are merely the sum of of the play within the play? Sounds a bit but the wit is lightning fast. In between the dialogue by flitting between characters don’t know what ‘The Scheme’ is, then you our experiences. If this is so, then retired Charlie Kaufman meets Tristram Shandy. oddities, the sisters belt out near flawless proves unconvincing and distracting. Equally, can stop reading here and forget about submariner Eric is streets ahead of many But what’s surprising is quite how well three part harmonies, and if their jokes at the operatic element is disappointing: going to see this show, as a decent working others. His ‘Tales Of The Sea’ is a series it works: a darkly funny ride through the times left me scratching my head, every Jarquin’s voice is not strong, often moving knowledge of contemporary Scottish culture of autobiographical anecdotes delivered tormented relationship between a writer single song put a smile on my face. Given set whilst singing rather than committing is extremely helpful for Nelson’s show. in a refreshing and heart-warming style, and an alcoholic director that may or may the number of singing groups doing the to the music. Though Jarquin proves affable In fact, a man in the front row from Los a genuinely charming presentation of not be as real as it seems. Jarring shifts into same old gig at the Fringe, it’s refreshing to enough to win this jury’s support, this Angeles appeared to nod off – to Nelson’s character-building pranks, in which spearing the absurd threaten to capsize it, but sharp, see these women daring to do something forgettable show sadly does not reap the great amusement. While observational gutted fish is just the beginning. Eric’s show semi-improvised dialogue and the pervading different. At times you’re not sure if they’re potential of its novel conceit and captivating humour of the Michael McIntyre ilk leaves has been a much-loved part of the Fringe meta-fictional vibe avert disaster well before trying too hard to be funny or genuinely protagonist. many comedy connoisseurs cold, Nelson since 2008 and I can see why: there is a it strikes. It’s bolstered by fascinatingly being bizarre, but once they stop teasing Hill Street Theatre, 5 – 29 Aug (not 10, 17, 24), does it well and with edge. Like your funniest lovely combination of shark tales, buckets physical performances from the two leads, and start singing, you won’t care. 3.45pm (4.45pm), £7.50 - £11.00, fpp247. tw rating friend he tickles you into laughing at even the and barbecues on nuclear submarines, 1/5 [tfw] making for a funny, moving and intriguing Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 - 28 Aug (not 17), 10.15pm most obscene material. Still reading...? Go and it’s perfect for anyone interested in tale about love and the nature of addiction. (11.10pm), £5.00 - £10.00, fpp148. tw rating 4/5 [tw] and see Mark Nelson. glimpsing a dangerous world within our Venue 13, 5 – 20 Aug (Not 8, 15, 16), 7.00pm David Lee Nelson... Status Update (8.00pm), £5.00 – £7.00, fpp265 tw rating 4/5 [rss] Underbelly Cowgate, 4 – 28 Aug (not 17), 7.10pm world that is far removed from their own. David Lee Nelson Laurence Clark: Health Hazard! (8.10pm), £9.00 - £11.00, fpp113. tw rating 4/5 [ls] Eric is a gifted storyteller with a love of CKP in Association With Beyond Compare suspense, and good humour in buckets. A failed hybrid of theatre and stand-up Gutter Junky comedy, ‘Status Update’ is a one-man Laurence Clark is on a mission: to preach Matthew Crosby: AdventureParty Just The Tonic At The Caves, 4-28 Aug (not 17 or Assembly And Salida Productions monologue showing a man trying to find the good work of NHS to the Land of the Phil McIntyre Entertainments By Arrangement With 22), 3.10pm, £8.50 - £9.50 tw rating 4/5 [ep] humour in a lonely existence after divorce. “It’s ideas that turn these things and they Free. Clark, who has cerebral palsy, uses a Lisa Thomas Management Nelson aims to steer between tragedy can be unstoppable.” This is the profound mixture of stand-up, pictures and video to Not everyone’s expecting a riotous hour and farce, but fails to settle comfortably message of the moving ‘Gutter Junky’. document his attempts to find American of comedy when PowerPoint is involved. THEATRE into either. The monologue is interspersed The story involves a British writer visiting health insurance, and to convince the US Matthew Crosby has been a Fringe regular with long and tiresome home-videos in the South American region to carry out that it is possible to remain alive in another as part of the sketch show, ‘Pappy’s Fun which he recounts the sour details of his research for his upcoming book. Little does country. Along the way, he draws an arrow Two Johnnies Live Upstairs Club’, and now is striking out on his own with marriage. There are moments of muted he know that civil war is about to break out, on the Queen’s ankle, attacks several Paroles Traverses / Institut Français d’Ecosse ‘AdventureParty’ in which he celebrates his inventiveness, but Nelson’s stand-up is too making his experience more dangerous than people with a rubber tube and explains that In this promenade, one must imagine nerdy ways with hilarious visual aids such as staged to strike the intimate tone he aims he ever imagined, and his book more deadly Mussolini was not a socialist. The show is a that the French Institute building is in fact childhood photos. Despite an admittedly slow for. The unexplained use of pre-recorded than he ever dreamed. Laden with political bit of a slow burner but Clark’s natural wit the home of a celebrated French onion and quite awkward start, Matthew Crosby’s video adds nothing to the performance. It is significance, the play becomes reminiscent soon has the whole room in stitches. A vital merchant from yesteryear and that one is self-deprecating comedy soon comes into a show that, in its close attention to David of an illegal and brutal invasion of a weak reminder that we should be grateful for the being shown around by his great-grandson. its own with a full explanation of the fine Lee Nelson himself, would benefit from an country in the name of democracy. The NHS, and a warning to man the barricades So far, so reasonable. But when one distinction between being a geek and a affable quirkiness that he entirely lacks. performance does appear overly dramatic when privatisation comes a-calling. nerd. Crosby interacts really easily with the encounters a rabbit hand-puppet torture- at times, especially in the super slow-mo Laughing Horse @ The Beehive Inn, 04-28 Aug Udderbelly’s Pasture, 3 - 28 Aug (not 16), 6.40pm chamber, or the guide converses with audience, joyfully coaxing nerdy confessions (not 08, 15, 16, 22), 3.45pm (4:40pm), Free Non effect of the scene changes, but overall, (7.35pm), £8.50 - £11.00, fpp108. tw rating 4/5 [kw] out of them. The irrelevantly named Sean Connery via the TV, things become Ticketed, fpp 254. t/w rating 2/5 [ij] this is thought-provoking and wonderfully ‘AdventureParty’ is definitely one to see, maddeningly perplexing. Ironically, given that enacted. French stereotypes are lampooned in the Imran Yusuf – Bring The Thunder especially if you are nerdily inclined yourself. Donna Disco Assembly Hall, 4 – 28 Aug (not 15), £8.00 - £9.00, Bound and Gagged Comedy by Arrangement Pleasance Courtyard, 3 – 29 Aug (not 16), 4.45pm play, the work may be too quintessentially 3.00pm (4.00pm), fpp267. tw rating 4/5 [ma] Chicken Pox Fox and Live Theatre With Comic Voice Management (5.45pm), £8.00 - £12.00, fpp115. tw rating 4/5 [km] avant-garde for British tastes. However, it is Donna is an overweight eccentric fourteen- Imran Yusuf talks with such unrelenting a powerful, experimental piece and perhaps Story Shakespeare: Love’s year-old who suffers from bullying at school enthusiasm that it is inexorably infectious. The Maybe Pile merits viewing purely for its weirdness. One Labour’s Lost of the strangest theatrical productions I’ve and an uncaring mother at home. As part His material, which covers everything from Clark And Boothy / PBH’s Free Fringe of a school project, she befriends Stewart, Year Out Drama Theatre Company politics, multiculturalism and difficulties ever experienced, be prepared for lots of “We don’t just break down the fourth the tenant from the flat downstairs, and Ceaseless energy and beautiful ensemble with women, shows a diversity that is onions and factor in time for a stiff drink wall – we attack it and eat a bite of it,” discovers she is not the only person who work makes this adaptation of the supplemented by an undeniable passion afterwards. declares ‘The Maybe Pile’s’ flyer. As you feels alone. This show is a tour de force of Shakespearian comedy a must see, filled, for what he does. This is honest comedy Institut français d’Ecosse, 5 - 26 Aug (not 13, 14, as it is, to the brim with wit and smut, can imagine, I was pretty darn excited 20, 21), times vary, £8.00 - £10.00, fpp307. tw rating writing, acting and directing. Lee Mattinson’s delivered by a man who primarily seeks to to go and have my fourth wall bitten and 3/5 [lk] beautifully crafted script creates a world of much of which probably soars over the entertain. Using questions of identity as a eaten. However, whilst this set of comic intricately drawn and believable characters. head of younger audience members. The major focal point of the show, he delivers sketches is competent enough, it lacked Paula Penman gives a virtuoso performance youthfulness of the Year Out Drama group a powerful message of following one’s Be My Baby by Amanda any real pizzazz and I struggled to equate as Donna (and all the other characters), infuses the play, the modernised language dreams and never giving up. But this is also Whittington their intrepid tagline with the performance perfectly pitched between caricature and of which is always paramount. A story of accessible comedy – it is easy to listen to Domina Productions in front of me. The concept itself - a look at realism, effortlessly drawing the audience romance and deception, we see four pairs and therefore easy to like. It also, therefore, the comedian’s struggle to generate new Much like a retrospective take on MTV’s into this funny and heartbreaking story. It is of lovers make and break oaths in minutes, fails to offer anything truly different – a and exciting material - had potential, but this ‘16 and Pregnant’, ‘Be My Baby by Amanda rare to see a show of such delicate beauty. testing the love that is sworn to them and shame, as he has lots of potential. trio struggled to pull it off. Although these Whittington’ awakens the audience to the See it now before it starts selling out. using contemporary songs to bring the Pleasance Courtyard, 3 - 28 Aug, 7.00pm (8.00pm), boys’ sheer dedication implored me to like horrid trials and tribulations of teenage piece home. The foppish Don Armado is £9.50 - £12.00, fpp92. tw rating 3/5 [aq] Hill Street Theatre, 6 – 29 Aug (not 10,17,24), the show, it would be against my better pregnancy in the 1960s, where these 5.15pm (6.15pm), £7.50 - £9.00, fpp 257. a highlight, his lover’s extravagance never judgment. For now, it’s a definite no-go. baby-bumped girls didn’t have the option tw rating 5/5 [mc] failing to amuse, while the ensemble cast’s The Inflatables – Free Southsider, 6 – 27 Aug, 7.00pm (8.00pm), free, of keeping their child. A beautifully written faultless attention to detail creates a The Inflatables fpp116. tw rating 2/5 [ah] script and superb acting allows each Eric Hermannson’s Soul vivacious and stunning backdrop for this character to brilliantly exemplify the many already well-loved classic. It is very difficult to pull off improvised Lone Tree issues that come with having a bastard comedy. You have to be exceptionally funny Punching Mice Sameena Zehra Crushed under the weight of a small C too, 15 – 20 Aug, 11:05am (11:55am), £4.50 - child in the 1960s. The only faults in this £8.50, fpp300. tw rating 5/5 [ja] to be able to produce a compelling show A master storyteller, Sameena Zehra has an otherwise gleaming production are with the town and a strict puritan community, Eric on the spot, purely based on words the easy style that gives life to her characters occasionally slow transitions and somewhat Hermannson is told that the only way to save audience are shouting out at you. If you and paints vivid scenes for her captivated dragging scenes. ‘Be My Baby’ opens your the soul is to starve it. Into his life devoid are not exceptionally funny, the resulting audience. Growing up in India, many of eyes to the tragedy of society’s response to of pleasure and ignorant of culture comes performance does not feel like a show her stories tell of a life unfamiliar to her pregnancy, and, more widely, of simply being Margaret, a woman from halfway across at all. It feels like watching a Saturday audience in Edinburgh: owning servants, a woman in the mid-twentieth century. the continent who fills his world again and morning drama group going through their terrorist kidnappings, and punching makes him wonder at the price of salvation. warm-up games. ‘The Inflatables’ were very Zoo Roxy, 5-13 Aug, 16.30pm (17.30pm), £6.00 - Get lots more ThreeWeeks reviews mice. Never losing the thread she moves £8.00, fpp242. tw rating 3/5 [ew] A beautiful production with a narrative voice enthusiastic and clearly having great fun up confidently from tale to tale, expanding them shared by each actor, poetry passes from in your inbox with the eDaily there, talking in funny accents and saying with stories within stories and creating an Be Prepared one mouth to another seamlessly. Lively ThreeWeeks.co.uk/edaily silly things. Unfortunately the pleasure that engrossing chain of events. It is less stand- dancing and heartbreaking music flavour they got from making up nonsense did Matthew Bellwood up than it is a witty lecture. Her light manner the piece, and Erika DeBoer’s performance ThreeWeeks Publishing, a division of not translate into an equally entertaining A teller of private mythologies, Bellwood and skill as a storyteller make this show a as city-girl Margaret is enchanting, showing UnLimited Media, Unicorn House, 221 experience for the audience. This was a brings general significance to the delight to listen to, unlike so much of the perfectly a woman so startlingly witty she Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6PJ. delightful show – but only for those in it. unoriginal, unimaginative comedy I’ve seen insignificant moments of a life. A nice could make any man want to sell his soul. Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 6 – 27 Aug (not 7, 14, 21), 5.00pm Printing by Smart Design & Print. elsewhere at the Fringe. idea, sharing what he calls “dreams” theSpaces on the Mile, 5 – 13 Aug (not 7), 5.10pm (6.00pm), free, fpp92. tw rating 2/5 [jl] Laughing Horse @ Espionage, 5 – 28 Aug (not 13, to discover that others have the same (5.55pm), £7.00 - £9.00, fpp260. tw rating 4/5 [ja] Credits at www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/credits 14), 1.05pm (2.00pm), free, fpp137. tw rating 4/5 dreams. Curiously, the show seems more [jfb] TW RATINGS EXPLAINED: 1/5 BAD | 2/5 MEDIOCRE | 3/5 GOOD | 4/5 VERY GOOD | 5/5 BRILLIANT