✭✭✭✭✭ This is both clever and funny. Dom – The Play demonstrates the effect that Dominic Cummings had on the Brexit campaign and the government, treating both as an intellectual and scientific challenge. I suspect that most of the audience entered the Assembly Rooms preparing to grind their teeth / shake their fist / shout […]
Review: Ivo Graham, Organised Fun
✭✭✭✭ Here is a guy who knows why people have come to see him. Having endeared himself to millions on the last series of Taskmaster, Ivo Graham is smart enough to build on the expectations of his audience. Ivo Graham: Organised Fun is a trawl through (some of?) his concerns and idiosyncrasies. Clearly he revels […]
Review: Mitch Benn, The Point
✭✭✭✭ Mitch Benn’s strength has always been his ability to skewer the pompous with witty, punchy lyrics. This year he is doing that and aiming to understand what comedy is for and where he fits into it. That is ‘The Point’ during which he tackles everything from the history of comedy — in a three […]
Majestic show is escapism by the bucketful
We Will Rock You This new touring production with a new cast and set knows exactly what its audience wants and delivers it by the bucketful. This is escapist nonsense and all the better for it. The end product is the same – 24 Queen songs wrapped up in a lightweight story with its tongue […]
Shouting at the system with bite and humour
Review: Beach Body Ready (rating 4/5) This production from The Roaring Girls does not pull its punches. Rachael and Sarah are fat (their words, not mine). Josey is not. Together they open up to their audience and expose us to the expectations imposed on us all – and women in particular – by a media […]