Month August 2023

REVIEW: A Greasy Spoon

Reading Time: 2 minutesAlice Bunker-Whitney (writer) and Francesca Goodridge (director) combine tropes from well-known police dramas with suspense, a touch of insanity, and witty humor to create a killer show (pun intended). Mandy (Lindzi Germain) and Shanon (Hayley Sheen) have just murdered their boss at work. Without spoiling the plot of the show, the duo must navigate how to cover up their actions. However, they face obstacles such as a badge guy, a builder, a customer in desperate need of a skinny latte, and an aubergine seller who impede their efforts to cover up the bloodshed.

REVIEW: Joe and Rory: Television 1

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTelevision 1 is the brand new debut show for Joe Pearson & Rory Cargill, a character comedy sketch show which takes the audience through TV programming of the 20th Century. Starting with a Alfreds Astonishing Adventures and taking us through to an embarrassing body sketch the pair hit on all the pop culture shows that made TV what it is.

REVIEW: Meat Cute

Reading Time: 2 minutesLena is an activist but the way she’s going about is by trying to convert her tinder dates? The premise is solid, with the show opening with relatable dating stories until the reveal is ushered in. Lena (Bibi Lucille) targets meat eating dates and then converts them to veganism with unsolicited physical touch and facts and figures - her most recent let down being a date who was already vegan. What a waste.

REVIEW: Grubby Little Mitts

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe opener is a spectacular bit of sketch work - starting in the hyper natural and taking you to the edge of absurdity and tension. Similar to the closer which genuinely left me weeping... no spoilers. The show is Woven together with sketches both absurd and challenging - with a horny hen repeating sketch which I could watch for days. It is however here where some of the pull back and reveal punchlines sometimes seem redundant - the sketches themselves being funny enough to not require the add on.

REVIEW: INVASION! An Alien Musical

Reading Time: 3 minutesINVASION! is being put on as part of Camden Fringe and is created by the Cambridge University Musical Theatre Society (CUMTS), with the show being written and directed by Jonathan Powell and Jasper Robin, and composed by Lily Blundell. CUMTS can lay claim to being the original home of the worldwide smash hit that is SIX the Musical, however this show fails to live up to those lofty heights.