TeakShow's Twisted Sketches
01/01/2009 … Marvellous manic performances and a melodramatically brooding atmosphere lend TeakShow a touch of sinister class, but although the menagerie of warped characters…
2009 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 01 January 2009
Kent Valentine: A Fistful Of Rainbows
01/01/2009 … Kent Valentine is a hugely endearing presence, a natural raconteur with winning stories full of mischief, optimism and warmth.
Pinter's People
01/01/2009 … Harold Pinter might not be everyone’s first choice as a comedy scriptwriter.
Squared
01/01/2009 … There are three types of sketch troupes: those just starting to have go, those who have some experience but aren't quite there yet, and those good…
So You Think You're Funny
01/01/2009 … Review of the final Britain's longest-running new act competition boasted a stronger final line up in 2006 than most recent years a fact reflected …
Dutch Elm Conservatoire in Prison
01/01/2009 … Review No ifs, no buts this is a wonderful piece of work and sets the example for other sketch groups to follow.
Epitaph
01/01/2009 … This wonderful, if easily overlooked, gem of a show comes to Edinburgh from the Aspen Comedy Festival, where it was garlanded with the hotly-contested sketch award.
Stickmen: Year One
01/01/2009 … There are some great ideas in this ambitious, well-performed sketch show, but it is so wildly inconsistent in tone and quality that it's almost destined to fail.