Review by Steve Bennett

There's bad news and there's good news about Keara's travels.

Roughly the first third has nothing to do with the billed subject, concentrating instead on Scotland. Presumably this is Keara's normal stand-up act tacked on to make up time. But it's a good stand-up act.

And when she does finally use her passport, the cultures she reveals in her passably funny anecdotes ­ Spain, Hong Kong - are not really that exotic to the average British audience in 2006. The Balkans and Bosnia are more intriguing, but the comic material doesn't have the strength of her Scottish openers.

That was the bad news.

The good news is that Keara is an effective and talented stand-up whose motormouth delivery makes Ben Elton seem like Stephen Hawking.

The act needs more work on the writing to give it more impact and more shock, but Keara is one to watch. She got a critical mauling at the Fringe in 2002, by 2004 was hosting the interestingly titled Hungary For Laughs Comedy Society in Budapest and has now turned in a workmanlike Fringe show.

Definitely one to watch in the next two or three years.

John Fleming

Review date: 1 Jan 2006
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett