2014 Archives
Sat 02 August 2014
So electrifying, so dark and so cool...
Lucy Beaumont chooses her comedy favourites
02/08/2014 … When I started out in stand-up I was living in Hull and was very skint and just couldn't afford to see much live comedy.
Fri 01 August 2014
John Robertson: A Nifty History of Evil
01/08/2014 … Seemingly possessed by the evil figures he evokes, bombastic John Robertson doesn't deliver his monstrous account so much as pin you down and force it into you.
Alfie Brown: Divorced from Reality (and My Wife)
01/08/2014 … No one could accuse Alfie Brown of going for the easy laugh; in fact much of this show is downright difficult, with material about paedophilia, euthanasia, the word…
Jess Robinson: Mighty Voice
01/08/2014 … It’s hard to envisage a world in which Jess Robinson will not be a star.
© Idil Sukan Tom Neenan: The Haunting at Lopham House
01/08/2014 … This is a tale of the unexpected both in terms of its creepy plot and Tom Neenan’s impressive lines, frequently wrong-footing the audience with a well-placed warping…
Guilt & Shame: Going Straight
01/08/2014 … So this is the troubling story of the cult-like camps set up to ‘cure’ homosexuality by the hardline religious, in this case the fundamentalist followers of…