Daniel Kitson has called Rob Auton "entirely compelling to watch". What more recommendation do you need? Auton is a cross between a minstrel and a poet whose shows are dreamy thought bubbles about aspects of the world that fascinate him. This year's show is about sleep. He has previously done shows about the colour yellow, the sky and faces, but if you know his name already it is probably because of me. In 2013 I had an hour to kill in Edinburgh and wandered into a free taster package next door to my hotel.
My attention has been drawn to the fact that there are now fifty sleeps until the start of the Edinburgh Fringe 2016. If you can’t make it to the Fringe there are previews all over the UK at the moment, with seemingly every available space in London being used for warm-ups. So from today Beyond The Joke will be cherry picking some of the most interesting shows that you can see both now and in Scotland.
Nobody seems to have told the person that did the opening credits for this comedy version of Question Time that it is about the EU. Instead subject titles such as “relationships” and “money” rolled past as if our host, serial cynic Jack Dee, was any old agony aunt.
There is certainly a lot of improvisation about at the moment. We reviewed this yesterday and there is this show at the Soho Theatre.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
There is always one excellent performer that the Edinburgh Comedy Award judges seem hell bent on overlooking and in 2015 it was Lolly Adefope. The versatile young comedian gathered great reviews and enthusiastic word-of-mouth buzz yet bizarrely the panel dismissed her.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here. Nina Conti returns to the Criterion Theatre for another run from September 7 - 17. Tickets here.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
I didn’t even know that Mock The Week was back last night. Or even that it had gone away. I must be watching too many reruns on Dave. But according to the BBC this was the first episode of the fifteenth, yes fifteenth, series, helmed, as ever by smiling Dara O Briain.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
This review first appeared in the Evening Standard here.
Russell Kane has smartened up his act. The over-excited hair and youth TV T-shirts have been replaced by tidy locks and tight jackets. Kane is finally growing up and in his new show, Right Man, Wrong Age, he explains why with considerable style.
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