[Review] Comic Abuse
Go see this show if for no other reason than the pleasure seeing three promising youngsters. It’s like seeing a clip of Emma Thompson, Hugh Laurie and the likes from their turn at the Fringe: skills and charms oozing from every poor and careers in the making from the word go.
Robert Peel, JackWhitehall and Charlotte Perking have written and perform their own show and they do it well. The mixture of sketches and stand-up is refreshing, well paced and range from portrayal of a prep-boy gone rap to a well-meaning, but rather dim aid worker on her guitar to Joseph and Mary meeting an inn-keeper sure the “sentimental value of your child is through the roof.”
I could, and feel like, mentioning every scene, but you will find out when you go and see for yourself, as you rightly should. These kids are cool and professional enough to take any fear of looking silly and just going with it. As if to prove the “cool” point they add Johnny Cash to any breaks for good measure. Class.
Comic Abuse
Pleasance Dome
Kirsten Nielsen
