Category: Reviews
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4 stars – plush feminist comedy Under a plush blanket, on plush pillows and next to a plush book, Riah Knight is sleeping. From the start, she engages the audience with great energy – even a very small and shy audience as was the case when I saw the show. Starting on a playful, amusing…
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4 stars – impeccable acting Matteo and Reggie are stuck into a loop, or straightaway in an absence of time, with the only endless task of carpentering their own coffins. Their opposite personalities lead them to small fights and to hilarious disputes. Matteo catches a grasp of their situation and looks for ways to escape,…
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3 stars – an entertaining improvised comedy hour with varying levels of performance. A 60-minute longform improv show is a tough task to master even for a very well-versed ensemble of some of the funniest quick-thinkers who can read just about any room. With three heroes, a dungeon but no dragons, Mistakes Were Made provided…
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5 stars – I text therefore I am (therefore I love) After meeting in unpredictable circumstances, two students start texting. One is reading Humanities and living his sexuality in a free way; the other is a physicist who acts like he is in control of everything in his life. The differences between them are abysmal…
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4 stars – but very close to 5! In this comedy, Lairs and May could be each other’s nemesis, but they develop a (not-so-balanced) friendship. Lairs is a Chinese student who stems from a rich family and has just moved to London. May is a sound, practical person, she looks Asian but was born in…
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4 stars – Aussie silliness in a jam-packed experimental sketch show Aussie silliness in a jam-packed experimental sketch show The Sydney duo Hot Department certainly deliver what they promise: heat from straight to finish. It doesn’t take them long to start undressing and by the end nothing is off the table and not much on…
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5 stars – brilliantly written and performed tale of a 1930s wannabe starlet Bebe Cave’s solo show pays homage to her favourite topic in the world: neurotic actresses (her own words). While Bebe has been performing at the Fringe and elsewhere in the UK with her sister Jessie Cave since 2014, this is her first…
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5 stars – storming with energy and irony Tegan Verheul has an incredible charge of energy to drag the audience into her story so that they can’t let go of her. From the very start, she plays the card of irony, about herself as well as about wrestling. She introduces herself as a wrestling fan,…
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3 stars – the jokes might have been written but they weren’t delivered The Canadian comedian Zoe Brownstone presents us with a hour-long collection of jokes and anecdotes covering her desire for a 90’s rom-com style meet-cutes, her Jewishness, her drug-selling past, getting deported from the Netherlands after her Dutch (meet-cute!) boyfriend quickly dumps her,…
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5 stars – irresistible If Arturo Luíz Soria wants to talk about himself, about his past and his traumas, he does it in a very subtle way, by interpreting a version of his mother. Elisabete is a woman in her 70s, as the performer declares in the very beginning of the show, and from that…
