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drinks Monday 4 August 08
Cambridge Footlights - Beyond a Joke
Verdict: Sketch comedy
Edinburgh 04 - Pleasance Dome - 19:10 (1hr)
Beyond a Joke is an hour of sketches strung together with an interconnecting theme – the weather in a place called Flishinghurst.
All roads lead to Flishinghurst in the snow. Nick Mohammed plays the incomprehensible weatherman who doesn’t predict the avalanche that’s about to hit town. Donald and Cherry (Jonny Sweet and Sarah Solemani) are Christians hiding their repressed sexual urges by reading the Bible together - imitating jungle animals and feeding ducks on a frozen pond. Ed Coleman is a traffic-jam junkie obsessed with the possibility of missing a jam - with poor unsuspecting motorists Raph Shirley and Jonny Sweet unable to escape.
It’s not as funny as it could be, but there are moments that are amusing, especially those involving Ed Coleman - who has a wonderfully malleable face, reminiscent of Rowan Atkinson. Sarah Solemani as the homeless Sloane-on-the-phone, searching for real life and calling her friend to tell her about it, is supremely straight-faced.
Cast Credits (alpha order): Ed Coleman, Nick Mohammed, Raph Shirley, Sarah Solemani, Jonny Sweet.
Company Credits: Writers (alpha order) – Sam Baldock, Simon Bird, Ed Coleman, Matt Harvey, Susanna Hislop, Nick Mohammed, Ed Riches, Raph Shirley, Sarah Solemani, Jonny Sweet, Joe Thomas. Directors – Sam Baldock, Ed Riches. Designer – Jane Metcalfe. Tour Manager – Martin Ball. Technical Directors – Aaron Lockey, Jonnie Clough. Publicist/Company Manager – Jennie Lees. Set Construction – Eddy Langley.
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(c) Lea Harris 2004
reviewed 29 August 04 / Pleasance Dome
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2008
