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In Conflict

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

A verbatim theatre piece featuring astute performances from a young cast, this series of interviews with US military personnel who have served in Iraq reflects everything from bitterness to a defiant kind of idealism. Director Douglas Wager adds some…

Inside Yerma

Singing, dancing and despair

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

Lorca’s play, widely regarded as a metaphor for the Spanish civil war, deals with grand themes of honour, passion, desperation and love. In the Spanish campo, Yerma is unable to conceive with a husband she does not love and feels entombed in her house…

Ivan Brackenbury

Ivan Brackenbury

Ill-advised gags in the Disease Hour

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

Fresh from a triumphant Fringe 07 which included an if.comeddie nomination and a string of rave reviews, Chesterfield and North Derbyshire’s foot-in-mouth specialist hospital DJ is back. And in a seasonal twist, he’s turning August into Christmas-time…

James Dowdeswell

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

A perfectly likeable chap with a decent story to tell about his experience of being at a school which had a near-Columbine incident and its strange aftermath, this is an hour about how it's tough being nice. Perhaps it is simply easier to find and write…

James Sherwood

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

Sherwood could be the love child of Victoria Wood and Richard Whiteley, a not so wild fusion of bland complacent chuckles set to music accompanied by smug smatterings. It's clever in places, but it's really all over before you've noticed. It'll have you…

Jamie Kilstein

(2 stars)21 Aug 2008

Hey, you know what would be a novel idea for a comedy show? Taking pot-shots at the God-fearing American right from a left-wing perspective! Kilstein evidently thinks his scattergun approach to Republicans and organised religion is edgy, and maybe it is…

Janey Godley

Janey Godley wins Funny Women Fringe Award

21 Aug 2008

Scottish comedy talent has been recognised by the Nivea Funny Women Fringe Award which went to Glasgow stand-up Janey Godley. The comic won the £1000 award with her show Domestic Godley, in which she shares home truths about family, friends and her…

Jarlath Regan

Jarlath Regan

A charming but semi-comatose hour

(3 stars)21 Aug 2008

When you Google ‘relax the cax’, you will be asked, ‘Did you mean “relax the car”?’ Well, of course not, that’s just silly. But perhaps more daft is that gentle Irish comic Jarlath Regan failed to find it within himself to explain the title of his show…

Jason Byrne

Jason Byrne

Totally insane, bloody funny

(4 stars)21 Aug 2008

Several things will probably happen at a Jason Byrne gig. A teenage boy in the crowd will squirm while Byrne guesses what he gets up to behind closed bedroom doors. Audience members get assigned surreal characters, based around something Byrne’s caught…

Jason Cook

Jason Cook

Finding comfort and joy in the darkest of places

(5 stars)21 Aug 2008

It’s his birthday today, so you’d expect Jason Cook to be in party mode. His sister has even showed up for Joy in this tiny and packed Stand back-room. But while we pile out onto the street having hugged strangers and armed with paraphernalia that would…

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