Stickmen: Year One
01/01/2009 … There are some great ideas in this ambitious, well-performed sketch show, but it is so wildly inconsistent in tone and quality that it's almost destined to fail.
2009 Reviews
Here are our reviews of comedy Gigs
Thu 01 January 2009
Dutch Elm Conservatoire in Prison
01/01/2009 … Review No ifs, no buts this is a wonderful piece of work and sets the example for other sketch groups to follow.
So You Think You're Funny
01/01/2009 … Review of the final Britain's longest-running new act competition boasted a stronger final line up in 2006 than most recent years a fact reflected …
Squared
01/01/2009 … There are three types of sketch troupes: those just starting to have go, those who have some experience but aren't quite there yet, and those good…
Epitaph
01/01/2009 … This wonderful, if easily overlooked, gem of a show comes to Edinburgh from the Aspen Comedy Festival, where it was garlanded with the hotly-contested sketch award.
Pinter's People
01/01/2009 … Harold Pinter might not be everyone’s first choice as a comedy scriptwriter.
Kent Valentine: A Fistful Of Rainbows
01/01/2009 … Kent Valentine is a hugely endearing presence, a natural raconteur with winning stories full of mischief, optimism and warmth.
TeakShow's Twisted Sketches
01/01/2009 … Marvellous manic performances and a melodramatically brooding atmosphere lend TeakShow a touch of sinister class, but although the menagerie of warped characters…