Theatre

Evin Donohoe: International Homewrecker

John Underwood | Monday 8 August, 2011 13:52

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“Do we have anyone in from Sydney?” asks Antipodean comic Evin Donohoe a few minutes into his interminable hour-long set. The enthusiastic response (including perhaps eighty per cent of the front two rows) suggests that Donohoe has been doing the rounds of his expat friends, and no wonder. With perhaps fifteen minutes of actual comedy painstakingly dragged out over its running time, his show International Homewrecker clunks awkwardly from anecdote to one-liner and back, taking time out for a ten or twelve minute routine about Harry Potter (including a mercifully short reading from Donohoe’s own slashfic ‘The Duelling Wands’) and an epistolary exchange with Sainsbury’s of the sort which Jimmy Carr did to death about five years ago. There are certainly watchable moments, but they turned up so infrequently it hardly seemed worth looking out for them. Someone give this man a ten minute support slot, it’ll be kinder on all involved.

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