This is the second of the Fringe shows that is based on Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi, though this one has less 80s pop in it.
Mike McShane is excellent in the role of Fatboy, the devious, vile character who will stop at nothing to get what he wants (world domination naturally), along with Nancy Walsh who [...]

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Chlamydia and Calamine Lloyd-Haemorrhage, the formerly conjoined twins who once made a living in a Victorian sideshow, have been let out of the institution for one night only (and apparently defying the boundaries of time) to provide the Victorian Society with an insight into the entertainment values of the era in which they take so [...]

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This modern day reworking of Alfred Jarry’s absurdist take on Macbeth integrates the tale of the foul-mouthed Pa Ubu and his sinister plans to take over Poland…with pop music. As he slices and dices his way to the top, Pa Ubu’s favoured form of combat is to defeat his opponents with his killer moves on [...]

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Unusually for a stand up, Demitri Martin makes no effort to acknowledge the audience as he steps on stage. Instead he launches straight into a very scripted speech about how he was a bit of a freak in school.
At first, he seems very ‘American’ and full of the blandness that you associate with clean cut [...]

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The performance seems to have already begun as people file into the room and find their seats. They are greeted, almost individually by Dudley Sutton, who appears very grateful for the company. He is a very charming man, so comfortable on stage that it’s difficult to imagine him anywhere else. When everyone is sitting comfortably, [...]

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The venue seems much too small to house a play such as this. There is no escape for anyone once they are in there, especially the actor who, having no backstage to shelter in, find themselves cowering in the shadows, desperately trying not to get in the way of each other. Much of the action [...]

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After sitting for what seemed like eternity, listening to the most terrible ‘comedy music’, a very hairy and slightly nervous looking Munnery entered the room. This is the second show in a trilogy that runs alternately every night.
‘It might be better if you close your eyes,’ he informs us ‘Well, I might not be so [...]

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Narrated by Kathy Burke, this play/mime/comedy show takes us to a place that’s not quite of this world. The Illusion Brothers (otherwise known as Dominic Burdess and Tom Goodwin) are trapped in some kind of Orwellian nightmare, where they are forced by a faceless tormentor into the tedium of factory work. Their only escape from [...]

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The poster and flyers gave away very little about the show, other than t it was to be presented by a Doctor Hank Shankman, presumably some wacky public school rich kid, who would spend the next hour laughing at knobs and fannies and encouraging the audience to divulge wildly intimate details of their private lives. [...]

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