Show Details
Dick Biscuit Private Eye And Special Guests
Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2008

Dick Biscuit Private Eye And Special Guests


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Description

Dick Biscuit's a schizophrenic and Kurt Russell enthusiast. He and his brain club together to solve a bizzare crime.But will they fall out in the process? Richard Crawford introduces.

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Reviews

Original Review:

Show Rating:Dick Biscuit Private Eye And Special Guests rated 2/5

Dick Biscuit tries to mimic the private investigator flicks of the Forties and Fifties but rather than encapsulate the feel of that era, the acts behind this show have only captured the essence of student theatre.

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

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Comments

I think this writer missed the whole point.The comedy is original, charming and likeable and anyone who cant see that needs a reality check.

Zoe, August 2009


I am shocked to hear this review. I think anybody that think the writing is clumsy and the ideas are plain immature and stupid clearly need to go away - grow an imagination.. The entire concept of one fighting with ones inner concience is something many people are familiar with - and the stories and crimes built up around in Dicks life are exciting a funny. Very creative and very enjoyable.. Looking forward to what Dick has for us in the remainder of 2009.

Gillian Humpledink, July 2009


This show was excellent, the highlight of the fringe for me. Excellent from start to finish.

Rik Ford, December 2008



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