Didn't see this in Edinburgh but on the tour they have just started. I would have to say to anyone thinking of going - don't. They have some good ideas but absolutely no idea where to go with them. They managed to muurder every attempt either by going on too long or by not developing enough. It had all the feeling of a sixth form end-of-term stage show. A couple of the lads (Sam Kitchener and Joe Thomas)had decent presentation skills and I'm sure will have a future as actors. I would also have given them more respect if Tiani Ghosh was not amongst them. She was so, so bad and so very irritating I felt the urge to shout out loud. Tiani, if you read this, do not ever go on stage again. Ever! Take that grating voice and scrunched-up facial expression and be the annoying 'office clown' somewhere. To the others. Keep working on it.There is something there but it really needs some help and better comic direction
Jim, September 2006
The most disappointing show we have ever seen at the Edinburgh Festival. Have attended performances by Cambridge Footlights since 1976 but will avoid them at all costs in future. Due to the poor script and complete lack of punchlines, only the dimming of the lights between sketches gave any indication that they were finished. A truly cringeworthy performance
Yvonne Steven, August 2006
This was without doubt one of the worst shows I ve ever seen. Alternative comedy, which is a bit too 'alternative'. The comedy was original but playing far too much on its middle class Cambridge theme, which become overly tiresome after the first two or three sketches. Some of the ideas were brilliant and executed technically well but lacked any punch. No one in the audience was especially moved by the performance and the increasingly forced applause after each failed sketch seems to come out of politeness rather than actual acceptance or approval. For the group to improve they must have versatility. Tiani Ghosh thought she could overcome this by having the same bewildered and bemused facial expression, which after 55mins was simply tiresome and feeble. Avoid this at all costs unless you actually know the cast and if so bring a book or Sudoku or something
Thomas Onyeador, August 2006
Poorest show I saw in the festival. Never seen such forced applause out of politeness as each sketch worsened with time. I saw much better acts who will have to struggle their way to the top, but it seems as this is a Cambridge Footlights production, that it's their birth right to be successful. Mediocre ideas, no punchlines, no laughter, nothing.... just twitching across the room full of disappointed souls staring into the the darkess to find the solice of a young boy opening one of the increasingly few exits.
