Tue 01 January 2008
Madame With An E
01/01/2008 … It is difficult to explain how something so polished can be so mediocre.
Literally
01/01/2008 … Paul Parry has a bugbear with which pendants everywhere will identify: that the word ‘literally’ is used wrongly literally 28 per cent of the time.
John Smith Free In Sick And Twisted
01/01/2008 … With John Smith, you pretty much get two shows for the price of one – but unfortunately, neither really works; and they certainly don’t sit together will.
Sixty-Six A Church Road: A Lament, Made Of Memories And Kept In Suitcases, By Daniel Kitson
01/01/2008 … This Daniel Kitson’s poetic lament to a lost love; the love he had for a building, the one place he was ever happy to call home.
Evening Without Dignity
01/01/2008 … This youthful sketch show is a slapdash affair: inconsistently written and performed, and featuring some truly disappointing moments.
Crazy Japanese SIt-Down Comedy
01/01/2008 … The word ‘Crazy’ in a show title always fills me with dread about the zaniness that may be about to meet me but Japanese Sit-Down Comedy is more bizarre than…
Jay Johnson: The Two And Only
01/01/2008 … For all the attempts to reinvent it, ventriloquism is a fundamentally old-fashioned form of entertainment; and Jay Johnson is a fundamentally old-fashioned form…