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Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2002
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McCloud and Black
Character comediennes McCloud and Black have a distinct collection of sketches which highlights their skills as versatile performers.
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Original Review:
It's difficult to work out exactly what this rookie duo is aiming at with this slightest of comedies. McCloud and Black play two posh office girls with plummy accents trading thinly-veiled insults and inconsequential banter in their undefined jobs. But the characters are too one-dimensional to be realistic, with their stagey, unnatural dialogue, and not funny enough to be caricatures. The jokes, such as they are, are a mixture of leaden puns and abysmally unrealistic misunderstandings all blatantly telegraphed. ("Leonardo Dicaprio? Didn't he paint the Mona Lisa?" or "I took a sabbatical. Who's Sabbatical?") There are a few decent moments, such as the exchange of stingingly bitchy insults; and the attempt to integrate hidden-camera footage and filmed sketches into the live stuff is a good idea, if let down by the quality of humour. But essentially this feels more like 'stuff that's happening on a stage' than a properly conceived show, and it certainly doesn't carry any comedic weight. |
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