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Footlights in 'Pretty Little Panic'

Footlights in 'Pretty Little Panic'

One moment of surrealist brilliance can't compensate for lack of comedic guile

23 Aug 2011

Asides from one moment of surrealist brilliance, the current Footlights batch patently don’t have a Key or Fry among them, as they cut a swathe through far too many sketches. Their ‘borrowing’ of the Marx Brothers mirror sequence only serves to prove…

Fringe for (around) a fiver: Comedy

Fringe for (around) a fiver: Comedy

The best cheap shows in Edinburgh this August

22 Jul 2011

AAA Stand-Up/Late A trio of dandy comics for much less than the normal price of three in this annual not-late/late line-up. The earlier bill includes Joe Rowntree while the later roster has Matt Price. Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 3–5 Aug…

Footlights

Footlights

A lukewarm and predictable set of sketches

18 Aug 2009

With such an illustrious history to shoulder, it’s perhaps become too much to bear for this latest Cambridge bunch. A lukewarm and predictable set of sketches do little for the troupe’s reputation, with little sign of a new Stephen Fry or Mark Watson…

Footlights

23 Aug 2007

Judging by the comedy graduation success of the Cambridge sect, the next Mark Watson or Stephen Fry may well be among the folk on stage, but they’re as difficult to spot as a funny sketch. Still, the cast’s occasional efforts to swallow their own…

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