Oh dear. I think I may be suffering from multiple personality disorder… How can I love, hate, pity, loathe, admire and despise the same person in just one hour? Quite easily, it seems, if that person happens to be Ben Willbond (who I fear may be suffering from a similar condition). His wonderful array of carefully observed comedic caricatures had my disbelief well and truly suspended from the start.

The characters brought to life by Willbond and his co-stars, Jim Field Smith and Katy Brand, are fantastically funny. Each one is fully formed with their own verbal peculiarities, questionable motives and occasional forays into insanity. In front of a bare stage, the entire focus is on the characters – the only props to be seen are a lab coat, a chair, a Russian pistol, 2 grey wigs and a pair of dodgy Miami Vice style shades. All this is tied together with a clever narrative which draws the audience even further into the wacky, though strangely familiar, world which the characters inhabit.

This show was a hilarious and highly efficient way of using 3 comedians and 1 hour of time at the Fringe. Which only leaves me with one nagging question…. does Patrick Stewart really cost the same as a spaceship???

Who: Ben Willbond
Where: Pleasance Courtyard
When: 21:20-22:20; until 29th August

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