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Carol Ann Duffy. Studio 2, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The World’s Wife, the attention of the wrapped and poetic cool could not perhaps compete with the Edinburgh Festival’s more edgy and dark comedians, the abundance of plays or even the thought of a trek upon the extinct remains of Arthur’s Seat. However, for the poetic savvy, the ones who see instinctively the value in the power of words delivered by the exulted Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy as she looked her audience in the eye and read from a selection of her works, this was as close to a heavenly experience as could possibly be imagined.

The Last Laugh, Theatre Review. Studio 2, The Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 9/10

Cast: Kier McAllister, Larah Bross.

Comedy can be personal, it has to be to be turned from the anecdotal moan down to the pub in front of a few well wishers and friends to the point of no return where you are stood a few feet away from people that you are about to open up about a significant portion of your life to. Comedy must be personal when it means you are going to exorcise a demon on a roasting furnace and get The Last Laugh.

Rory McGrath And Philip Pope: Bridge Over Troubled Lager. Edinburgh Fringe, The Assembly Rooms.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

The Edinburgh Festival is a potential match made in Heaven for the enjoyable combination of dexterous word play and musical accompaniment that is in the hands of Philip Pope and Rory McGrath in this year’s cool and witty Bridge Over Troubled Lager.   

The two comedians work together goes back so far that their comfortable approach to each other feels as though it pre-dates the time when Cornwall was annexed into the English culture. Such is the command of language at their disposal that the audience inside the Assembly Rooms were treated to a show in which the expected may have been seen coming just before the punch line but were nevertheless enthralled at the spectacle in front of them.