Theatre

We Don't Care If You Like It

Alan Hindle | Saturday 20 August, 2011 18:38

It’s just as well. Three women, crazed fireball Wanda, quiet Canadian Jill and Essex Jo, took a comedy writing workshop and decided to make a Fringe show. Now, I respect anyone with the nerve to risk the burning stare of an audience. Having said that, I don’t know where to begin. Wanda’s face spins through comedic grimaces, gurnings, gogglings, until watching made me dizzy. It’s like strapping on a jetpack and zooming through the National Museum of Gargoyle Heads. But that’s not enough to be funny. She looked so pleased with herself, though, it probably wouldn’t have mattered if there had been any audience at all. Wanda needs to calm down, Jill needs to come out of her shell and Jo, well, Jo is possibly nearly there. Of the three she is the one who seems most to realise what is needed to make comedy, and got the only laugh from me that night, with her stalky peon to John Prescott. Otherwise, all I can say is, this isn’t therapy. You are supposed to care whether your audience likes it.

Camden Fringe Festival page

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