In the wake of her wonderful show Ladybones at the Edinburgh Fringe, I sat down with writer and actor Sorcha McCaffrey. In the comfortably busy downstairs of Black Medicine cafe, we talked representation in theatre, OCD, and how to get your audience to join in.
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Sarah Kendall may be as close to a perfect comic as you could find. For those of you who have been following this site for a while, you will know my love for her 2016, and 2017 Fringe shows, both of which I gave five stars. You would think with that, no show could live up to my expectations, yet here she has managed to do it again.
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There are some acts that I watch where I spend as much time worrying about their vocal chords as I do enjoying their material. Michael Legge is one such act, who rarely seems to lower the decimal level below that of a furious shout, leaving you imagining his throat shredded like the angriest of metal band frontmen. Luckily, however, his material tends to be strong enough to overcome the worry.
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Some stand-up shows are determined to have a point and say something important about the world. Some stand-up shows just want to be funny, employing polished-club-ready gold. Eleanor Morton’s 2019 offering doesn’t really seem to know which of the two it wants to be.
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I went into this show with the idea that it could help me learn more for work – part of my day job involves educating young people about the Space Race – but then the first man in space was brutally assaulted by a bottle of vodka (no, not wielded as a weapon, an actual bottle with sentience and everything specifically targets him) and I realised that some aspects of astronaut life are better glossed over for the kiddos.
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‘Shreds: The Jack the Ripper Musical’ exposes the underbelly of London in the 19th century, and the bloody danger that swept through its back alleys, targeting sex workers.
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