Checkley Bush
29/08/2010 … I have to admit my heart sank at the start of Checkley Bush, as the first scene involved two over-the-top ‘Lanarkshire lezzas’ doing little more than belting…
2010 Archives
Sun 29 August 2010
Jim Bowes: Obsession
29/08/2010 … Though an affable and engaging presenter, Jim Bowes lacks a strong direction in a show too short on strong punchlines to stand apart.
Paul Harry Allen: The Lost Letters Of Cathy G
29/08/2010 … Rummaging around in a second hand shop in London, Paul Harry Allen, discovers a bundle of letters from the Sixties belonging to someone we only know as Cathy G.
Beach Hut Mutts
29/08/2010 … Tony Haase and Roy Hutchins won't be familiar names to most people now attending the Fringe, but back in the Eighties they accumulated three Perrier nominations,…
Keara Murphy's Travelling Circus
29/08/2010 … Keara Murphy notices fairly early on in her show that there's a number of people in her audience for whom English is a second or third language and she acknowledges…
Adam Hills: Mess Around
29/08/2010 … At times acts can get bogged down in a heavily themed narrative arc, sacrificing mirth for the message they are trying to get across.
Life Of Si: Si Harder
29/08/2010 … Like some kind of meta-sketch comedy, in which almost nothing original can be identified – including the familiar interaction between the two grinning buffoons…
Maeve Higgins: Personal Best
29/08/2010 … From the half-hearted Dizzee Rascal impression she employs as her introduction, to her indiscreet comments on fellow comics and critics, this truly felt like a tired,…