Tag Archives: Festival
Review: Improvisation Workshop
Comedy Improvisation Workshop (Adults)
Spontaneity Shop
Improvisation is an art, not just a bit of fun. This workshop explores the necessary skills for well crafted narrative in performance, and inevitably an event of this variety may not be for the experienced performer, but for someone with casual interest it offers excellent experience which would entirely alter their [...]
Threeweeks Review – Ruskin (Live!)
Ruskin Live!
Paul O’Keefe
You are invited to travel back in time to the 19th century to experience, in its original form, a public lecture from the great John Ruskin. As a lecture experience it is interesting, and informative, and cannot be faulted, and neither can the performance by Paul O’Keefe which is perfection. However, the fault [...]
Threeweeks Review – Audition Workshop
Sweet Film-making Workshops: Audition Technique
Stuffed Animals Media & Sweet Entertainments
This is a feet on the ground, no nonsense workshop designed to help give a step up for young or aspiring performers considering a career in ‘the business’. Run by professional casting director Adam Morley, the event is geared to preparing individuals for an audition, offering [...]
Threeweeks Review – Rape Of Lucrece
The Rape Of Lucrece
Thievish Dog
Solo theatre is a commitment, but this was something else – stripped of any spectacle, this monologue is instead an irrelevant tale that is adequately explained by its title. A plethora of sentences is thrown and spat into a smattering of onlookers, the sheer quantity of words is admirable, and the [...]
Threeweeks Review – Alexis Dubus
Alexis Dubus – A R*ddy Brief History Of Swearing
Alexis Dubus/ PBH’s Free Fringe
Shit me – or should I say Zounds – what a show. Anticipating the worst, I was amazed to find this was as unexpectedly funny as the Queen breaking wind. Dedicated to that most splendid of words, ‘fuck’, Dubus dispels the myths and [...]
Threeweeks Review – E.H.F.
Edinburgh Harvest Festival
HF Productions
If this is the future of comedy then let us forgo the formalities of the apocalypse and, naked, haul ourselves upon hellfire letting damnation rain upon us. Not just bad, this show was abysmal; there hasn’t been a car crash this bad since Paris 1997. A simple joke would have been nice, [...]
Threeweeks Review: Jim Bowen
Jim Bowen – Look At What You Could Have Won
Ovation
If you loved ‘Bullseye’ then you will probably enjoy this nostalgic ride. However, if the idea of a 71 year old man telling age-old gags, chatting to mediocre guests and playing darts for some dismal prizes sounds like uncomfortable viewing, then look elsewhere. His act mostly [...]
Threeweeks Review – Richard Herring
Richard Herring – The Headmaster’s Son
Avalon Productions
Richard Herring – he’s juvenile, puerile, immature – but he loves it. Harking back to his teenage years, positioned as he was as both son and pupil of his father, Herring reads through the lost diaries of his youth – which his 14 year old self had created for [...]
Three Weeks Review – Two