Doggett & Ephgrave: Big In Small Places
Live Review

Many performers would have been daunted if faced with an audience of four. Not Doggett and Ephgrave, they performed with such confidence and enthusiasm that I wished they'd been playing to a packed room.

With loads of material trawled from obscure websites projected behind them, this was an entertaining hour. A top 10 of hilarious true life magazine headlines provided plenty of laughs, along with an letter one of them discovered when they moved into a new house… which turned ut to be a piece of gay porn. A Dutch phrase book also provided plenty of comic material – although making two of the audience read the translation in Dutch is probably only funny for anyone who actually came from the Netherlands.

Some of the content had a too much coverage. While the Japanese Wings tribute band were amusingly awful, dwelling on it wasn't going to make it any funnier. Conversely, the skilful interpretation of how to make shadow animals could've gone on longer, such was its comic value.

Beautiful singing and ukulele playing added more variety to an already entertaining show, and these charming performers deserve a better venue than one wedged between the stairs, the pub kitchen and the toilets.