Originality, eager delivery, neatly balanced propwork, and jokes that actually work, this is a warm and hearty way to finish your evening. A five-man team (plus one Pythonesque off-stage woman’s voice) put on a half dozen or so sketches.
Thankfully this gang seems to care little for the pointless and random brand of sketch comedy that became trendy a few years ago. Perhaps narrative sense is an old-fashioned value but it does work and here many of the sketches are complete works of miniature fiction. They twist reality only as far as it needs to go — an absurd take on a down-to-earth situation is typically the foundation of an essentially character-comic construction.
The show also neatly gives itself an identity with props and costumes. Almost everything is black, but with coloured items judiciously injected. Think Sin City. This strong aesthetic visual sense goes naturally with the intuitive style of writing and larger-than-life acting.
Shows of this sort are naturally hit-and-miss; this one is mostly hit although there are a few unfunny minutes and the show never quite builds momentum to hilarity. You might wish there were more and greater peaks of mirth, but don’t complain, this is cheap and cheerful and good for a couple of laughs. This is a good, and at times very good, band of performers who have nowhere to go but up.
3/5 
Bernie Greenwood
(21 votes, average: 4.29 out of 5)
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