http://hairline.org.uk Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:24:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Topping and Butch are a delicious comedy double, one an older, chubby male the other a bald, muscled younger man. When looking at them you wouldn’t think it but these two have made a brilliant comedy team over the years, embracing their camp sense of humour upon the eager crowd. ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/28/topping-butch-twisted/ The lights go out and the band is ghoulishly lit onstage with carnival light-bulb strings and dry ice against a circus striped background. Mikelangelo and his band of extremely talented musicians are all well defined and disturbing characters in their own right. Their blend of Balkan medleys presented in vignette ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/mikelangelo-the-black-sea-gentlemen-dead-men-tell-a-thousand-tales/ Rich Hall is modern giant in comedy and this is reflected in his ability to fill up the cavernous Music Hall in the Assembly Rooms on George Street. He delivers his material with his trademark dry wit and confident laconic style to the now merrily inebriated audience. Iggy Pop in ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/rich-hall-2/ Triona Adams was a threatical agent. She enjoyed her life, she had her friends, but at 26, she decided she wanted to become a nun. Did she hear the call? Maybe. Did she enjoy it? Some of it. Did she get out of it? Most certainly. And she is at ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/nun-the-wiser/ Making Strange are a production company that despite still being relatively in its infancy, in just 4 years have made some big creative splashes, including the award winning 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' and 'Revisions'. Not to be outdone, they return with 'Luck', a fascinating and at times exhausting exploration ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/luck/ RAW is set in 1990’s club land to a pounding techno soundtrack. We are welcomed ironically into the space in small groups by bouncers, forcing us to wait at intervals behind a rope as one might expect outside a club. Our four characters enthusiastically queue up outside the club and once ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/raw/ Taking a break from his popular stints on 'Friday Night Project' and '8 out of 10 cats', Rob Rouse makes a charming return to the Fringe. If you can get over the fact that Rouse seems to forget he has a microphone in his hand and shouts to near ear ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/rob-rouse-my-family-and-the-dog-that-scared-jesus/ Jorge Luis Borges was a Latin-American writer, head of the Argentina's National Library, who had to give up his passion, reading, due to his worsening eyesight. He had a very playful and magical way of writing, and he influenced the literature of the twentieth century. Idle Motion company have brought to ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/borges-and-i/ Twine is a little boy. He can't speak (which doesn't bow well for his storyteller's aspirations), he can't help around the house. In fact, Twine can't do much, but he longs for adventures, such as the ones his friends tell. Because he feels alone, he leaves the house he has ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/27/twine/ There has been a recent resurgence in the popularity of ventriloquists, what with Terry Fator winning America’s Got Talent. Paul Zerdin certainly is a talented individual when it comes to this particular art form, and he has three characters- Sam a young boy, an older man; Albert and Baby. Like most ... http://hairline.org.uk/2009/08/26/paul-zerdin-sponge-fest/