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IN EDINBURGH ThreeWeeksGET THREEWEEKS COMEDY Kieran And The Joes: Teampowered DIRECT TO YOUR IN-BOX Thom Tuck Goes Straight To DVD Kieran And The Joes There are even more reviews in the Turlygod This entertaining and frivolous sketch show, masquerading as an informative ThreeWeeks eDaily email. ‘Straight-to-DVD’ Disney movies: it’s an and serious lifestyle seminar, promised to Sign up right now for free at unusual topic for a young, male performer, improve all audience members’ personalities but dealt with as Thom Tuck does – with www.ThreeWeeks.co.uk/eDaily beyond recognition in only 60 minutes. Our intelligence, irony and additional levels of charismatic leaders proudly guaranteed impassioned annoyance and tragicomedy that they would transform the meek and – they make for an inspired and hugely estranged into a polished team of confident entertaining show. Thom, from successful winners without obstacles or bickering – but comedy group ‘The Penny Dreadfuls,’ how wrong they were. The trio’s increasingly demonstrates his pedigree in character dysfunctional training exercises, featuring acting but also that he has the charm the least romantic marriage proposal and winning comic ability to go solo. imaginable and a birthday celebration that Referencing the many times he has been suddenly turned torturous, were consistently left heartbroken, Thom draws subtle pleasurable to watch and participate in. parallels between how Disney has let him Several provoked fits of laughter among down and the reality that life itself is not my new-found colleagues, but, aside from how Walt would have intended, allowing for a moment of brilliant confusion involving an endearing show that has the audience ‘Jurassic Park’ and the Second World War, laughing in agreement, despite perhaps not there wasn’t an outstanding set-piece that comprehending every Disney reference. merited a four-star review. Pleasance Dome, 3 - 28 Aug (not 21), 20.10pm (21.10pm), £8.00 - £10.00, fpp158. tw rating 4/5 [kc] Just The Tonic At The Store, 4 – 28 Aug (not 16), 1.20pm (2.20pm), £7.00 - £8.50, fpp105. tw rating: 3/5 [jf] James Dowdeswell: Doofus James Dowdeswell/The Stand Comedy Club Richard Dawkins Does Not Exist, Before James Dowdeswell takes to the And We Can Prove It stage, someone comes round with free nuts. Mark Quinn and Charlotte Young / PBH’s Free “James’ sister owns a nut company,” he Fringe explains, offering samples to the audience. “We would like to stress - this is not a It’s an odd way to commence, but once comedy show featuring maths. It is a maths Dowdeswell starts talking, it begins to show that occasionally features comedy”. make perfect sense: within ten minutes, It’s a fair warning: this is not a comedy in the affable comic manages to make the the conventional sense. In fact, despite its audience feel like old and trusted friends. witty, mass appeal title, this is a show that It’s a style of comedy absolutely perfect for could only possibly be convinced as comic if this small room: gently funny anecdotes are you have a good grasp of maths and maybe endearingly addressed directly to audience physics, but I wouldn’t know. There were members, giving the show an intimate ‘knock, knock’ jokes to prove mathematical feel, as though we’ve all just met down terms - or was it theorems? - and flip the pub. Chatty and cheerful, it’s great fun charts and equation heavy punch lines. If SNAP OF THE DAY: Twisted cabaret takes throughout; and unlike real pub sessions, cos+sin(π)=1 is your idea of a good premise nobody gets drunk and weepy. for a double entendre, then run for a ticket over the Voodoo Rooms at the Free Fringe, it’s The Stand Comedy Club III & IV, 5 – 28 Aug (not - the show was packed out. If not, give this 15), 4.45pm (5.45pm), £5.00 - £8.00, fpp94. tw rating 4/5 [eb] a miss. ‘Kabarett: Alternative Variety’. Photo: Richard Dyson The Canons’ Gait, 6 – 28 Aug (not 16, 23), 3.40pm (4.40pm), free, fpp140. tw rating 2/5 [jl] Pockets of Suspense Relax, Eat And Breathe / Laughing Horse Free Frisky And Mannish: Pop Centre Phill Jupitus Quartet - ‘Made Up’ The Midnight Hour Festival Plus Gilded Balloon PBH’s Free Fringe ‘Pockets of Suspense’ is a fitting title for this Phil McIntyre Entertainments By Arrangement With Phill Jupitus leads this joyfully funny and Housing London’s Soho Comedy Club, the United Agents show, as the denouement of each sketch antagonistic set of improvised comedy, warm mahogany design of the Canon’s routinely holds an amusing, yet often morbid, Rihanna’s chains and whips aren’t nearly as where the performers compete and Gait pub provides an ideal venue for some surprise. The two performers, who proved exciting as this year’s F&M show. Poking fun challenge each other to even greater chilled out, late night comedy. Unfolding very amiable indeed, delightfully enacted at pop seems to be a recurring theme of heights, egged on by an audience that is in the throes of a convivial underground eighteen short sketches, covering topics this year’s fringe, with shows like ‘Dead Cat soon engrossed in their crazy onstage bunker, the gig offers fresh guests every like family oddities, an overly inept detective, Bounce’ and ‘HitComet’. More than making games. The most surreal of their wonderfully show, compered by the wonderfully inured or strange encounters between friends. pop culture references, this double-act get madcap collection of sketches is when circuit veteran Kate Smurthwaite. Highlights The performance space was small, and to the heart of the problems of today’s Top each one takes the voice of another, which included some light news probing from the props non-existent, but the actors still 40, highlighting trends of artists who sell essentially just results in Phill Jupitus being David Mulholland, which fed sharply into managed to pull off an entirely convincing themselves as original, but who are actually forced to dance “the dance of love” every Kiwi Benjamin Crellin’s set on British show. It must be admitted, however, that just recycling chord progressions. They time his character is voiced. Despite taking a idiosyncrasies and New Zealand lifestyle. the macabre punchlines and, at times, reach out to a range of musical generations, while to get going, this is brilliant improvised Though a little slow at times, and perhaps consciously revolting references, were not with numbers like Rihanna’s ‘Rude Boy’ in comedy that soon has the audience missing the intimacy which a venue such as to everyone’s liking. Nevertheless, ‘Pockets the style of the Bee Gees, and an anthology completely enthralled, as a long sketch The Stand affords, the comics flirted with of Suspense’ proved entertaining for most of Madonna. The audience participation about an Icelandic poet hit the comedic the audience’s boundaries before rounding of those who stayed for the full forty-five could afford to be more original, but talent is heights that only the best can reach. the night off with style, whoops and just minutes. Time well spent indeed. in the air and I like the sound of it. Gilded Balloon Teviot, 5 - 28 Aug (not 9, 16, 23, 26), Laughing @ Espionage, 8 – 27 Aug, 1.35pm enough cheers – not to forget the beers! Udderbelly’s Pasture, 3 - 28 Aug (not 8, 15, 22), 9.30 3.30pm (4.30pm), £11.00 - £14.00, fpp133. (2.20pm), free, fpp135. tw rating 4/5 [ma] The Canons’ Gait, 5 – 29 Aug (not 6, 7, 14, 21, 28), pm (10.30pm), £10.50 - £14.00, fpp80. tw rating tw rating 4/5 [sj] 11.59pm (1.00am), free, fpp119. tw 3/5 [ajl] 4/5 [cld]

MORE REVIEWS PLUS NEWS, INTERVIEWS AND EXCLUSIVE COLUMNS: WWW.THREEWEEKS.CO.UK Bristol Revunions: National legends have jumped on the band wagon Joe Bor: In Search Of The find ‘Beltup’s Outland’. If you enjoyed that audience laugh several times. It’s this touch Friends with hits like ‘Tropic Thunder’, in whose Six Pack sentence, you’ll probably enjoy the show. that makes ‘Generation 9/11’ a truly fresh footsteps ‘Armageddapocalypse’ so closely ‘Outland’ is about the life and works of and exciting experience. Unmissable. Bristol Revunions Joe Bor treads, and which, sadly, fails to generate fantasy writer, Lewis Carroll. Carroll’s theSpaces @ Surgeons Hall, 5 – 27 Aug (not 7, 14, This limp and uninspiring sketch show by much laughter. The acting can’t be faulted, Perhaps the fact that he hails from my characters, from Alice to the lesser known 21), times vary, £6.00 - £7.00, fpp265 tw rating 5/5 five undergraduates from the University as the young cast simmer with energy home turf of Crouch End gave me a Sylvie and Bruno, sporadically appear [eb] of Bristol contained fewer than Severn and possess brilliant comic timing, and predisposition for liking Joe Bor. He does alongside Carroll in this interactive show. amusing jokes. Unfortunately, despite as a result, most of the audience seem to indeed come across as a jolly nice guy… in The creative set creates an imprisoned Sleeping Beauty generally respectable performances and enjoy the show. However, much like a fuzzy search of a six-pack. With the aid of some feeling, intensifying the writing’s macabre Another Soup Productions some convincing impressions, the group video clips and a PowerPoint presentation photocopied picture, this has already been playfulness. However, the characters tend I have never seen an adaptation of ‘Sleeping were hindered by eccentric material he talks us through the past year of his done, and the script is stale. to change too frequently, thus aren’t fully Beauty’ in which the pivotal kiss waking that was disappointing at best. As well life, in which he has attempted to address Just The Tonic at The Caves, 4 – 28 Aug (not 17), developed; presumably to compensate, the the Princess after a century of slumber as downgrading their venue from the his insecurities about his girlfriend’s buff 10.00pm (11.00pm), £7.50 - £9.50, fpp40. tw rating actors maintain an emotionally high level was executed with such a lack of drama Pleasance Courtyard to The Store this year, 2/5 [ls] ex-boyfriend, ‘Mitch’, by growing a six-pack. throughout, producing a melodramatic and conviction. This lack was symptomatic they appeared to have forgotten how to The theme and resulting content of this and slightly ridiculous atmosphere which, of the whole show; coherent emotional compose memorable punch lines; if I hadn’t show are pretty entertaining, keeping the Come Hell Or High Water This unfortunately, dampens the effectiveness of interpretation of the Brothers Grimm story listed the scenarios in turn, I would have audience engaged throughout, and it’s Sick World Will Know I Was Here the production. Even so, the result is nothing was near to non-existent, with line delivery struggled to remember them after I’d left. It complemented by some friendly interaction. Gregory Akerman / Free Festival short of satisfying. either stilted and underpowered or rushed appeared as though they’d exhausted their There are lots of people there to interact C soco, 3 - 29 Aug, 8.30pm (9.30) £8.50 - 12.50, and hammy. The production suffered from creative energies on the gently cerebral Fame – why seek it? This is a question with too, as he undoubtedly draws some of fpp241. tw rating 3/5 [lmm] a glut of ideas: the lovely puppets were lost country-naming skit, which was the single many performers must ask themselves the biggest crowds at the Fringe. among a mish-mash of theatrical styles, and saving grace in this otherwise rambling and during the madness of the Fringe, and Just The Tonic At The Tron, 4 - 28 Aug (not 16), 7 Day Drunk the cast’s unnecessary skittering about the unfocussed travesty. Consider outsourcing it’s the question at the centre of Gregory 5.00pm (6.00pm), £5.00 - £8.00, fpp99. tw rating Bryony Kimmings / Soho Theatre / Junction stage was a real distraction. Fundamentally, the writing next time, Bristol. Akerman’s show. Part lecture, and part 4/5 [efs] Escalator East To Edinburgh the problem was the bad acting, for which Just The Tonic At The Store, 4 – 28 Aug (not 16), autobiographical recall, Akerman takes us even their act of sweetly sitting children 3.40pm (4.40pm), £6.50 - £8.50, fpp52. tw rating: through the history of fame and his own Morgan & West: Crime Solving Formulated on a seven-day stint of from the audience on the stage itself 2/5 [jf] personal encounter with it. His content Magicians monitored and filmed drunkenness, this part- is humorous and recalls a touch of Ricky documentary, part-drunken fantasy explores couldn’t make amends. Morgan & West Josh Widdicombe: If This Show Gervais in its dry, deadpan and occasionally the highs and lows of alcohol use and abuse, theSpaces on North Bridge, 5 - 27 Aug (not 14, 21), cringe-worthy tone. However, much is lost By Jove! What a sensationally satisfying taking the audience for a ride through this 4.10pm (4.55pm), £5.50 - £7.50, £24.00 F, fpp 298. Saves One Life tw rating 1/5 [dp] in the delivery. Akerman paces constantly, sleuthing showcase this was! The Gilded artist’s inner desires and experiences with Off The Kerb Productions mumbles and continuously reaches for his Balloon finally lived up to its somewhat substance abuse. Bryony is completely The constantly bemused Josh Widdicombe water bottle, and his set ends half an hour peculiar name by hosting this twenty-four kooky; muttering to herself, messing up the The Caroll Myth - a young man more tightly wound than early. If this were not the free festival, you carat gold, tremendously uplifting hour set – she would probably be annoying if she Schmucks Theatre Company his curly mop of blond hair - knows how would definitely feel cheated. Oh wait, I still of miraculous mind-reading, which left wasn’t so damn cute! Women will find this A logician one moment and lacking any logic to write a fantastic stand-up routine. did. Although promising, Akerman is not embittered cynics and hopeless romantics absolutely hilarious, while men may squirm the next, Charles Dodgson, better known Hysteria-inducing jokes arrive in lightning quite there. alike to wander Edinburgh’s windswept a little with flashbacks of drunken girlfriends. as Lewis Carroll, is forced to sit back and quick succession during this frighteningly streets, cheerier and more dumbfounded Laughing Horse @ Jekyll & Hyde, 13 - 28 Aug, 12.35 It’s visually delightful: we are dazzled watch his imagination literally run wild, impressive debut hour, with only momentary pm (1.35pm), free, fpp60. tw rating 2/5 [am] than before. Inspired by Victorian culture, with sparkling costumes, soft toys, video desperately endeavouring to revive the respite for the audience to regain featuring tricks sharper than a Swiss army projections and lights. In the end, Bryony adventures of ‘Alice in Wonderland’. Faced composure before another torrent of David Kelly Is Shameless – Free knife, tickets to watch these charmingly old- provides us with some sobering statistics on with critique for his “nonsensical” writing amusement strikes. A natural raconteur, fashioned conjurers should be compulsory alcohol, while inspiring the crowd to ascend David Kelly / Laughing Horse Free Festival and deprived of his eleven-year-old muse, it Widdicombe’s exasperated diatribes on antidotes prescribed to every dejected into a euphoric celebration. proves harder and harder for Dodgson to It’s harder to be a good comedian in a small life’s petty irritations are never childish or performer and rain-battered spectator Assembly George Square, 4 - 28 Aug (not 15, 22), tame his imaginary characters or ignore the space, I reckon. The faces are right there; self-indulgent, but mature and concerning during the festival’s bleakest moments. 8.00pm (9.00pm), £10.00 - £12.00, fpp296. tw rating detrimental consequence they are having the reactions, the cringing, the groaning – all 5/5 [efs] subjects that punters can appreciate Even if you aren’t moustachioed, infatuated on his professional life. Superbly enacted by audible. But you would not have thought so regardless of age or gender. This everyman with Sherlock Holmes, or dressed in an the entire cast, ‘The Caroll Myth’ provides from David Kelly’s performance. Teaming up quality makes him a strong contender to immaculate three-piece suit and cravat, An Imagined History of Tango an enchanting exploration of the fantastical with the energetic Laura Carr, he ensured headline corporate arenas in the future – your spirits will be raised immeasurably by Teatro Del Parpadeo (Italy and mindset of one of literature’s most that the hour-long performance flew by. Both ask master comedian Rhod Gilbert, who this delightful, family-friendly show. Simply renowned authors. Enhanced by mystical had moments of true originality and wit, and Mexico) must’ve noticed his crown resting uneasily spiffing! music, riveting rhymes and the captivating both handled the occasional heckles from As we were divided into ladies and as he watched the prodigious apprentice in Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 – 29 Aug (not 17), 3.30pm lobster quadrille, this performance was the crowd - a hazard at any comedy gig - (4.30pm), £8.50 - £10.50, fpp121. tw rating: 5/5 [jf] gentlemen at entrance, I cringed inwardly. action. nothing short of five stars. Pleasance Courtyard, 3 – 28 Aug (not 15), 7.15pm with ease and aplomb. Carr was personable But this is a history of tango, a dance of Sweet Grassmarket, 4 – 28 Aug, 7.10pm (8.25pm), (8.15pm), £8.50 - £11.00, fpp102. tw rating: 5/5 [jf] and confiding in her anecdotal and personal great gender divide, so let’s not be overly Patrick Monahan: Hug Me I £8.00 - £10.00, fpp247. tw rating 5/5 [ma] critical. In fact, I want to let all criticisms quips, if occasionally rushing through her Feel Good Steve Hall’s Very Still Life material; Kelly was a little quiet, but his go, because Anna Cetti, the sole deviser understated humour was cerebral and his Vivienne Smith Management / Phil McIntyre and performer of this piece, is thoroughly The Girl Who Thought She Was Avalon Promotions Entertainment descriptive jokes about his Prince phase engaging. She even managed to charm her Irish Poor Steve Hall, sensible member of had the crowd in stitches. Shamelessly good Patrick Monahan is one of the most likeable audience into dancing. However, being lovely Biddy O’Loughlin madcap sketch trio ‘We Are Klang’: not only comedy indeed. and naturally funny comics on the circuit is not enough to make a great show; while Fringe performers are all “egomaniacs was his Australian wife’s visa rejected during and in his show ‘Hug Me I Feel Good,’ his Laughing Horse @ Meadow Bar, 4 – 28 Aug (not 15, she tickled me at times and was inventive with low self-esteem”. At least, that’s how the first eight months of his marriage, 22), 21.00 (10.00pm), free, fpp64. tw rating 4/5 [at] infectious enthusiasm acts like a warm with some of her staging, there simply this performer describes herself and leaving him alone and heartbroken in embrace uniting the audience. The show wasn’t enough here. Although Cetti tried her contemporaries. As the title implies, London, but he’s no longer the most famous Ford And Akram: Humdinger is loosely based around Patrick’s recent to offer depth when meaning was sought, despite her name (Biddy O’Loughlin), she is Steve Hall in the entertainment industry attempts at performing good deeds, but it Live Nation it was clumsily found. Her story of how she in no way Irish, and in this show, she tells after that embarrassing pensioner danced is his extensive audience interaction that fell in love with fiery tango ultimately left me her story with straight-faced obscenities Louise Ford is a bum-bag wearing ‘slow into the limelight on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’. provides the most brilliant moments of the cold. and hilariously dry humour. After feeling romantic’; Yasmine Akram decided she was This bitter-sweet performance is as polished night and allows his effortless quick-wit to C aquila, 4 – 29 Aug (not 15), 4.55pm (5.55pm), out of place growing up in the Australian too beautiful to live in Ireland any longer. and entertaining as you’d expect from the shine. Far from striking fear into the heart of £5.50 - £9.50, fpp.271. tw rating 2/5 [ls] desert with an alcoholic Catholic family Together they make a pretty dysfunctional man chosen to be Russell Howard’s support the audience with cutting quips or scathing and imaginary friends, Ireland (the land of team. Here they look back at the various act on recent stadium tours. Hall’s self- put-downs, Monahan’s ability to riff with Free Run faeries, Guiness and good craic) appealed escapades that have strained their deprecating anecdotes work brilliantly, with people of all ages means that rather than to her. Combining story-telling, stand-up and relationship, including bar mitzvahs, mime Underbelly Productions and South Bank Centre an absolutely lovely story about chatting up shrinking away, the audience is putty in his beautifully sung musical interludes, this is a school and encounters with Colin Farrell. Taking an activity which grew spontaneously women via online Scrabble. Unfortunately, hands. Unadulterated and galvanising fun great performance covering a wide range of This show is only gently humorous and rarely in open urban space and bringing it indoors, his risqué jokes are inappropriate and from a genuine and excitable comedian. social issues – but it’s definitely not for the riotously funny; at times the pace seems to professional runners 3Run put on an misguided; don’t drop such clangers next Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 - 28 Aug (not 15, 22), easily offended or faint-hearted. time, Steve. drag, feeling too scripted and forced. That 8.00pm (9.00pm), £9.00 - £12.50, fpp130. tw rating enjoyable show despite the loss of some said, there is a lot of potential in this show 5/5 [kc] of the freedom and shin-shattering peril Gilded Balloon Teviot, 3 - 24 Aug (not 15 - 22), Pleasance Courtyard, 3 – 29 Aug (not 15), 8.30pm 12.45pm (1.40pm), £7.00 - £9.00, fpp266 tw rating (9.30pm), £7.00 - £9.50, fpp155. tw rating: 3/5 [jf] and parts of it are very funny. Overall, it’s a of jumping off high walls in a city centre. 4/5 [efs] perfectly good way to spend an hour, but not Leaping and clambering all around the audience, the athletic performers showcase Amateur Transplants: what you’d call a stand-out success. THEATRE Waterproof Pleasance Courtyard, 3 – 29 Aug (not 15), 3.30pm their skills in solo stunts and ensemble How It Ended Productions Adam Kay’s Smutty Songs (4.25pm), £7.00 - £9.50, fpp76. tw rating 3/5 [km] routines of gymnastics and martial arts. Live Nation Traumatikon Flashy, flickering video projections and a No one will fail to notice the relevance of “This made me very, very happy,” Stephen Idiots Of Ants Counter-Active token plot involving some robot ninjas serve the title to this year’s Festival weather. However, this one-woman show featuring Fry once said. Stephen, I concur. Adam Kay, Pleasance Traumatikon’s programme name-checks to change the pace, delighting younger growling at the piano stool and downing a eleven modernist names, with Tadeusz elements of the ‘all ages’ audience but Eva Sampson as Laura, is not about rain Idiots of Ants are very, very pleased with bottle of white wine, provides the most dour Kantor being the key – “Kantorian” seems to merely seeming distracting to the rest of us. but about the sea, and its association with themselves. They’re funny, they’re there life-affirmation I have ever heard. His songs mean repetitive, grotesque, and nonlinear. It’s unnecessary, too, because despite the adventure. A lonely aquarium employee to have as much fun as the audience of smut bring joy to every grown up face We follow a restaurant’s large macabre restrictions of the space, their sheer joyful recounts the story of her obsession with a and, somehow, it really works for them. in the audience: these filthy comedic gems cast through tics, non-dialogue, boozy sing- physicality is impressive in itself. handsome visitor. Invigorated by the bright Their sketches strike a wonderful balance these are definitely songs for adults. And a-longs and transformations. Characters Udderbelly’s Pasture, 3 – 15, 17 – 21, 23 – 29 Aug, colours of the tropical fish, Laura escapes between total absurdity and clever although the genre is hardly original, Kay take it in turns to break through routine with 6.20 pm (7.20 pm), £10.50 - £17.00, fpp264. tw dreary Luton by entering into a fantasy world observation, with their best being the simple rating 3/5 [df] sings his tunes with wine-drenched, blasé, some absurd great change that gives both based on Hollywood romance; a strategy construct of taking reality and changing mad piano skills, and is better than almost them and us a short reprieve from passive which, of course, leads to disappointment. one of its parameters - for instance, “what any other comedy-musician I’ve ever seen. horror: a ‘queen’ becomes Pablo Picasso; a Generation 9/11: So Far/So The props Laura uses to embellish her tale would the world be like if every conversation Imagine Jack Dee in a punch-up with Lady mute emerges as Frida Kahlo; a cheery girl Close are unnecessary and distracting in their happened at gunpoint?”. The funniest Gaga while Leonard Cohen watches ringside channels the goddess Freya in wrath; the bizarreness, and tt times, the pace slackens. moments, however, are those which Chris Wolfe and you’re essentially there. grim restaurant itself suddenly becomes a However, Sampson is wonderfully endearing, appear unscripted, when the members are As the lights come up on ‘Generation 9/11’, Pleasance Courtyard, 3 – 29 Aug, 7.00pm gory circus. Traumatikon is cruel to beauty, and this funny, engaging play will strike a squabbling on stage, stealing each others’ Chris Wolfe’s one-man play about the fall of (8.00pm), £9.00 - £11.50, fpp38. tw rating 4/5 [ls] but if you have patience, and the stomach chord with romantics. lines or gratuitously blasting each other with the Twin Towers, he fixes the audience with for masses of irony and black, it’s meaty. Pleasance Dome, 3 - 28 Aug (not 16), 1.30pm fire extinguishers: these really make the a cold stare. “Where were you then?” he Armageddapocalypse: Meat that’s going green. (2.30pm), £7.00 - £9.00, fpp310. tw rating 4/5 [lk] show stand out above the competition. Their asks, half-accusing, half-curious. It’s typical of The Explosioning enthusiasm truly succeeds in bringing the Summerhall, 4 - 24 Aug, 4.15pm (5.45pm) £5.00 - the way this fascinating, innovative piece of £8.00, fpp n/a. tw rating: 4/5 [gl] Exploding Fist Productions audience to its feet. theatre engages the audience throughout. Wolfe’s ability to transform with just a A photocopy of a photocopy is always a bit Pleasance Courtyard, 3 - 29 Aug (not 15, 22), ThreeWeeks Publishing, a division of 8.30pm (9.30pm), £9.00 - £11.50, fpp90. tw rating Belt Up’s Outland change of tone is extraordinary; with the fuzzy; the same goes for a spoof of a spoof. UnLimited Media, Unicorn House, 221 Blockbuster action films are easy targets 4/5 [sj] Belt Up Theatre In Association With Jethro help of a few simple props – a hat, a scarf – Compton Ltd Shoreditch High Street, London, E1 6PJ. with their rigidly drawn stock characters – he has a cast of at least a dozen. Though the that’s why they have been lampooned time Nestled deep amidst the borogroves of subject might lend itself to over-seriousness, Printing by Smart Design & Print. and time again. Indeed, even action movie the C venue, down a rabbit hole, you’ll Wolfe is actually very funny, and 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