The Philanthropist
West End theatre review by Steve Bennett
27/04/2017 … Philip, the central character in The Philanthropist, is a bland university don so eager not to cause offence he cannot bring himself to have a critical opinion…
2017 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 27 April 2017
Wed 26 April 2017
The Comedy Happening
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the Albany, London
26/04/2017 … Phil Nichol was the headliner, and Bobby Davro was the most famous name on the bill.
Tue 25 April 2017
Marcel Lucont's Whine List
Gig review by Steve Bennett at Soho Theatre, London
25/04/2017 … Marcel Lucont is probably not what you would call a ‘people person’: aloof, supercilious, disdainful.
Mon 24 April 2017
Upstream Comedy
Gig review by Steve Bennett at the 100 Club, London
24/04/2017 … This was the first show of what’s planned to be regular new alternative comedy night… though few in the audience seemed aware that weird is what they’d…
Sun 23 April 2017
Richard Gadd: Monkey See, Monkey Do
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
23/04/2017 … The show that won Richard Gadd the Edinburgh Comedy Award last August was performed in a tiny, sweaty pub cellar, giving an already intense show an even more extreme…
Fri 21 April 2017
Nikki Britton is Romanticide
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
21/04/2017 … ‘It’s going to be a lot of energy in a small space for an hour,’ Nikki Britton promises.
David Quirk: Cowboy Mouth
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
21/04/2017 … What could be worse than people telling you their dreams? How about someone telling you of dreams other people have had about them? That’s the apparent…
Becky Lucas: Little Bitch
Review by Steve Bennett at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival
21/04/2017 … ‘Bitch’ is a strong word, and the slightly awkward Becky Lucas doesn't quite have the savage attitude to pull it off.