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The Fringe was getting into full swing, and I was learning about the stresses of reading the morning pre-sales figures. We were still giving away tickets to our show and the audience numbers were encouraging. Conversely, the numbers for "When Hedges Attack" were looking fairly low. On Wednesday 11th, we had our first day off, which was absolutely needed. The stresses of performing in a couple of shows were keeping me away from watching much.
Show |
Review |
8th August |
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| 19.20 - Milton Jones **** Underbelly |
Milton Jones is the king of the one-liner. His deliberate
delivery only seems to brew the joke even stronger as he slowly reveals
where his thought has taken us. This was the sort of show to take your
friends and family to, being totally clean and very very funny. Based around a pseudo-rough-guide of the world, interspersed with a few sketches, this was basically a compendium of very funny jokes.
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11th August |
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| 15.40 - Mourning - The Durham Revue ** Underbelly |
Unable to watch this on any other day because of my own
show, and wanting to support Durham University out of some misguided sense
of shared identity (given that I live near to Durham), I sat through their
hour-long review, which intentionally explored some darker jokes. In fact, the jokes were not especially dark, they were just happy to use things like death in the set up of a sketch. Overall, this was a fairly dull effort, squandering the capabilities of the cast. Student revues need not be so... well... studenty. They had some interesting set pieces, some of which revolved around music. In addition, they had a few straight comedy songs. I have never seen a comedy song plod on for so long with so few jokes in it as one of their main numbers (which thankfully I've now forgotten), but I was impressed at their tenacity for seeing it through.
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| 21.30 - Nice Mum **** Underbelly |
Nice Mum is a two man sketch group. We decided to go and see
their show after we heard that they were good and that they were woefully
undersubscribed to. Given that the show was free entry for us, it seemed a
fairly easy thing to go along and lend moral support. While we could have simulated our amusement at the antics of this pair in order to support them, there was no need. With sketches which came across as instant classics, and on-stage personas that were indisputably funny the hour just flew by.
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14th August |
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| 22.30 - Tina Dico *** Underbelly |
It's not like me to go to a music gig at the Fringe. I enjoyed bits of this. It wasn't really my scene. It was, however, free to me as I used my Underbelly pass.
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Shows/events seen this week: 4
Total so far: 9
Written: 29 May 2006
Ashley Frieze