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While it was not quite a scream, there were plenty of laughs to be had. (Kirsty Knaggs)
I Screamers Comedy Club (Fringe) Screamers, Komedia @ Southside (Venue 82) 667 2272, 20-27, 27-28 Aug, midnight, £7 (£5).
DANCE/PHYSICAL THEATRE REVIEW Swahili Godot
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Cornered by demands of home-life and the nappy-changing rota, Tuck flips and hits his wife. While Anna recites her shopping list in a frenzy of despair - along with household groceries, she puts in a bid for companionship and respect - domestic bliss is shattered.
With a strong physical theatre element, Robin Fulford's new play kicks off strongly. The language is poetic, the situation engaging. But half way through it takes a wrong turn. Clothes are removed and the brushing of teeth and the spewing of toothpaste becomes a metaphor for domestic decay and inner confusion. The poetry is lost. (Susanna Beaumont)
- Swahili Godot (Fringe) 1757 Performance Group & Platform 9 Theatre, C cubed (Venue 726) 225 5705, until 30 Aug, 11. 75pm, £7 (£5).
MUSICAL REVIEW
Macbeth 2000 A Multi- Media Rock Musical **
While Macbeth 2000 is not intended as a parody, songs like ’Out Damn Spot’ can’t fail to raise a smirk. Original lyrics are supplied courtesy of a certain W. Shakespeare, but dramatic tension and fatal flaws have been bulldozed to make way for a sexier, more physical approach. The witches are fishnet- stockinged Rocky Horror escapees, and Lady Macbeth's ‘Unsex Me' skit borrows the conical bra and raunchy moves from Madonna's Blonde Ambition tour.
Members of the company have graduated with honours from the Shouting School of Stage Acting, with post-graduate qualifications in emotional singing from the Celine
10pm-Late
Dion Academy. (Allan Radcliffe)
I Macbeth 2000 A Multi-Media Rock Musical (Fringe) Aurora/Western Connecticut State University, Komedia @ Southside (Venue 82) 667 2212, until 22 Aug, 70.75pm, £7. 50 (£5. 50).
COMEDY REVIEW The Nicki Narcissus Show ***
V, Raisith spoof: Nicki Narcissus
Having been nudged into a state of nonchalance by Jerry Springer's diet of porn-secreting, nun-raping, convent transexuality, the premise behind this spoof chat-show (rating baiting and three pregnant virgins) could have been rather more immaculately conceived. Still, generously seasoned with a lot of energetic relish, the show has obviously been weaned on enthusiasm and thorough attention to detail.
The Nicki Narcissus Show doesn’t quite blossom in the hotbed of hilarity that its subject matter suggests, but is nonetheless festooned with enough backstage bitchery and bribery to help itself to healthy audience ratings. (Judith Ho) | The Nicki Narcissus Show, Rocket Venue, Southside Courtyard (Venue 76) 667 6666, until 25 Aug (not 22) 70.20pm, £5 (£4).
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