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Soup
Verdict: Refreshing comedy change
Edinburgh 06 - Café Royal Fringe Theatre - 4-27 August 06 - 13:20 (1:00)
Jason Cook enters to the theme from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and explains that Soup is a character-driven sketch show in development. He says it’s not impro, but nor is it fixed from day to day – it’s a mixture of ingredients that will not be to everybody's taste. He introduces fellow-actors Toby Hadoke, Keith Carter, Lee Fenwick.
A young man with three hands is told he will stick out like a sore thumb in a school full of girls. Alan X sings a socio-political song about gun crime among 7 year olds: Pulling that trigger won't make you any bigger. Jason Cook agrees with the audience that it's sick. But it is very funny. In a science sketch, Mr Digital takes an audience member to the future. Here Disney has changed direction, kilts are renamed - and gays reveal: it was all a joke.
Artists in Focus features Daisy Snatch - a lesbian, vegan, socialist poet whose character is too over-the-top to suspend disbelief. White Chris Rock - heavily influenced by black culture - is creepily cool and believable. A camp personality is persuaded by his agent to keep acting gay - that's what the public want. It's the most developed of the sketches.
Daisy Snatch is very raw, but all the sketches have great potential. There are believable characters in very unlikely circumstances. Today's performance gets about 60% laughter and 25% groans, with 15% undecided. Soup's a refreshing comedy change.
Company Credits: Technical Operator - Lee Martin. Company - Soup.
END
(c) Peter Andrews 2006
reviewed 8 Aug 06 / Café Royal
Fringe Report (c) Fringe Report 2002-2011
