An act I've always put off seeing - and now I wonder why. The show started late but despite the fact that we'd queued in the rain for an extra ten minutes it didn't matter. The show begins as an exploration of darwinism with monkey Nina's alarmingly profane puppet as the missing link. Then moves on to some psychoanalysis of the monkey as Nina's id and then climaxes in a costume change the boggles the eyes. Throughout the show Nina seems to be having a good time and that comes across , quickly warming a sodden audience. The best vents will always force you to remember that they are doing all the voices and this show has that in spades. Its not quite as slick as some Americans David Strassman comes to mind it has an originality and sense of fun there more mannered shows lackrnThere is a constant review of the gig by monkey that sums up the few dips in quality far better than I could - I suppose a ventriloquist has to be more self aware than most. This doesn't get to the five star mark but it isn't that far off. If the whole show had reached the same heights as Nina using her father as a dummy to work monkey it would be into 6 star territory. Well worth a visit

Andy, August 2008