Review by Steve Bennett

The story of Dick Biscuit focuses on the PI’s attempt to hunt down a missing person while having an internal dialogue with his unruly brain. The concept is reasonable but the writing is clumsy, the narrative poorly constructed leaving the audience with very little interest in Dick and his schizophrenic tale.

The acting is merely competent with Richard Hardisty, who plays the title role, pausing rather too often and too long between lines, I’m assuming he is doing this to create some kind of dramatic tension but it only serves to interupt the momentum.

The story becomes what is supposedly intended as surreal but ends up being just plain stupid, when ‘Brain’ sets up a date with another brain that it met online. The object of its affections turns out to be nothing more than a brain in a box. There is no reasoning, no explanation and no comedy value in this sizable section of the show, it is just ridiculous.

The dialogues between Hardisty and Andrew Needle (the voice of Brain) are accompanied by slides of pictures knocked up on the most basic Paint package on a PC, which adds nothing but further illustration of the immaturity of the project.

There are a few sections and lines in the show that will get some giggles and I imagine that Hardisty and Needle will be able to carve themselves a career in comedy acting eventually – just not with offerings like this one.

Reviewed by: Corry Shaw

Review date: 1 Jan 2008
Reviewed by: Steve Bennett