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YOUR DAILY SHEET OF EDINBURGH FESTIVAL REVIEWS: #07 THURSDAY 11 / FRIDAY 12 AUG IN EDINBURGH ThreeWeeksGET THREEWEEKS CHILDREN’S SHOWS COMEDY DIRECT TO YOUR IN-BOX The Incredible Book Eating Boy Ivor’s Other Show There are even more reviews in the Bootworks Theatre Ivor Dembina/Laughing Horse Free Festival ThreeWeeks eDaily email. With the development of CGI, complex “Unplanned, unscripted and probably Sign up right now for free at animation and 3D films, it is easy to think different every day” is the synopsis for www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/eDaily that more traditional forms of expression this hour-long show, led by Ivor Dembina. will struggle to have an impact on today’s The day I attended centred around how younger generation. But it is impossible humour can differ across the globe, with to forget the unique sense of joy that this two international comics joining Dembina premier production from Bootworks Theatre on stage. At this very light-hearted and brings: having watched the puppets and easy-going show, the audience were projection and enjoyed the quirky original actively encouraged to express their own soundtrack, I left with a permanent grin on opinions on humour and ask the comedians my face. The attention to detail and quick- questions. As interesting as many of the paced performance will leave you begging to subjects were, Dembina was far too serious watch it again – I and many others (judging at times and some parts came across as by the contents of their comment book) too regimented, however, when left to follow eagerly await their next venture. Enchanting its own natural flow, the show was very funny and adorable, this masterclass in addressing and thought-provoking. As the Free Fringe children, and the children at heart, will leave continues, this show will hopefully find its you absolutely mesmerised. stride, and generate even more laughs. Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 4-28 Aug Pleasance Courtyard, 3 – 29 Aug (not 16), times (not 9, 16, 23), 3.30pm (4.30pm), free, fpp93. tw vary, £3.00 - £4.00, fpp22. tw rating 5/5 [ck] rating 3/ [lam] Baba Yaga (And The Girl With James Loveridge... And The Kind Heart) Other Losers! Theatre Alba James Loveridge/Sam Hastings/Darius Davies/Luke Deep in Duddingston, a fabulous fairytale Capasso unfolds as we follow Anya on her quest to James Loveridge has just moved to London. defeat the evil Baba Yaga. Promenading He mentions this fact six or seven times around the magical Manse Garden, this in twenty minutes – which is a shame, show uses its location brilliantly, with twisting because his tales of provincial misadventure paths, towering trees and Duddingston Loch are by far the funniest parts of his set, all playing parts of the forest. Warm, funny delivered with witty self-deprecation and animals befriend and aid our heroine as she perfect timing. The role of the eponymous confronts the delightfully scary and boo-able ‘Other Loser’ is tonight taken by Sam Baba Yaga. Helen Cunin, Annabel Logan and Hastings, whose routine on the essential Frank Skelly also put in great performances differences between Americans and Brits in the supporting roles. Although slow is well-observed and smart. Unfortunately, to start and occasionally prone to losing he spends far too long condescendingly audience members in the forest (one scene explaining London-centric jokes to the SNAP OF THE DAY: Will you look at that? is almost over by the time the last of the predominantly Scottish audience, meaning audience arrives), this is an enchanting it’s hard to have much sympathy when his The cast of ‘The Dark Philosophers’, show. Well worth the trek to Duddingston. set is derailed by Scottish hecklers. A good Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden, 1 – 14 Aug, times show overall, but they’d do well to remember at the Traverse Theatre. Photo: Paul Collins vary, £5.00, fpp19. tw rating 4/5 [ab] that life does exist outside the M25. Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 5 – 27 Aug (not Baby Loves Disco 7, 14, 21), 5.35pm (6.35pm), free, fpp95 tw rating 3/5 [eb] Baby Loves Disco UK Ltd. Jackson Voorhaar Can’t Play James Sherwood - I Fed My Best A disappointed group of four are turned Baker And Thompson: Never Guitar - Free Friend Her Favourite Cow away at the heaving door of a boutique Made It To The RSC Jackson Voorhaar / Laughing Horse Free Festival Best Medicine Management Edinburgh nightclub. It’s not Saturday night Baker And Thompson The bastard offspring of Eddie Izzard As a show that convincingly argues on George Street, it’s Sunday afternoon at and Noel Fielding, Jackson Voorhaar is a that the terms ‘good’ and ‘bad’ are As the arts stare down the barrel of the cool indie club Electric Circus, and the group charismatic and likeable comic. His set flits obsolete, Sherwood sneakily avoids such gun at further cuts, the Fringe is perhaps consists of mummy, toddler and daddy with from music, which suffers from needing categorisation himself. He begins with the best place to offer satire on the state baby on his shoulders. ‘Baby Loves Disco’ the jokes explained to non-metal fans, to muscle-clenching awkwardness to an of acting in the UK. Comic duo Baker and has sold out the previous two years; so, if well-crafted observational humour, and unresponsive crowd on his exploration Thompson regale us with tales of their you fancy dancing, book early. For the lucky then back again to music - via Satanism. into the meaning of these terms. Shifting dreams and failures, notably to work for the ones, inside it’s disco delight, pumping 70s Although his anecdotes sometimes awkwardly from stand-up to scripted RSC, packaged tightly together with little funk and pop into the main room, with feeds meander for too long with too little pay-off, digressions, Sherwood seemed nervous. Shakespearean parodies. As the pair jump in the chill-out zone. On rotation, there are he keeps the audience laughing most of That said, he was performing to a wee from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ to ‘A Midsummer baby-type businesses occupying the back the time. Even when jokes fall flat, Voorhaar crowd in the Wee Room, and once on the Night’s Dream’, offhand quips, one-liners rooms. Be prepared: it gets hot, so bring recovers gracefully and keeps going, often keyboard, both he and the audience relaxed. and comebacks pepper the often sharp and plenty of water and snacks. And, of course, getting a secondary laugh for his troubles. He utilises music to ingenious ends, and it’s wisecrack exchanges. Yet while the piece be prepared to dance with your baby! Unfortunately, his take on musical comedy, sometimes unexpectedly witty and funny, harbours some interesting potential, its lack Electric Circus, 7, 14, 21, 28 Aug, 11.00am (1.00pm) although a novel idea, is rather forced and as well as skilfully played and sung. His of fluidity between gags becomes a little over and 2.00pm (4.00pm), £8.00, fpp19. tw rating 4/5 disrupts the rhythm of the show. Overall, surprisingly spectacular finale, gloriously [lc] familiar, and instead of building on some however, it is a solid performance by an mixing good and bad musically, exhibits great material, they leave us with much ado entertaining young comic. Sherwood’s talent as a musician and about nothing. The Counting House, 4 – 28 Aug, 2.15pm (3.15pm), comedian. But is it good or bad...? Laughing Horse @ The Three Sisters, 4-17 Aug (Not 15), free, fpp94. tw rating 3/5 [ab] 5:00pm (6:00pm), Free, fpp42. tw rating 3/5 [ajl] Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 - 28 Aug (not 16, 23), 3.15pm (4.15pm), £7.00 - £8.00, fpp95. tw rating 3/5 [mm] MORE REVIEWS PLUS NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS: WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK Brave New Irish Showcase – Free labelling her a nymphomaniac; her preferred It’s all exposed here via a mixture of film, Cock And Bull Story surprisingly likeable main characters and BraveNewIrish.com / Laughing Horse Free Fringe term is “sexually compulsive”, and it’s a dance, statistics, monologue, and – wait emeraldBLUE 2011 the neighbours, relatives, and love interests compulsion which, it seems, makes great for it – nudity. This show will be illuminating they dramatise with gusto, this piece offers One would think it nepotism for an Irish pub Loud, laddish and with hormones on the comedy. A brilliant young comic; go see her for audiences with little exposure to a moving account of Yorkshire emerging to host a showcase of Irish comedians on high, this two man play by Richard Crowe now because it’s unlikely she’ll be doing this professional dance, though there are some from the Thatcher period. the Edinburgh Fringe, but thankfully there and Richard Zajdlic addresses homophobia for free much longer. references which may go over the head of are enough laughs here for us to let it slide. head on. This prominent and poignant issue, Underbelly Cowgate, 4 - 28 Aug (not 17), 12.05pm punters less familiar with its world, while (1.05pm), £7.50 - £10.00, fpp269. tw rating 4/5 [tsr] Featuring, for its first ten days, the talents of Laughing Horse @ The Counting House, 5 – 29 Aug contrastingly dealt with in the context of the (not 14), 20:30pm, free, fpp73 tw rating 4/5 [dg] professional dancers will relate to many of Damon Blake and George Fox, it is probably insensitive Scottish boxing scene – complete the issues it addresses and enjoy the darkly for the best that the former opened the with the fiery fight scenes – make for a Hotel Medea humorous undertones.