Tag Archives: Comedy Review. The Gilded Balloon

Wendy Wason, Comedy Review. The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh Festival 2016.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 7.5/10

We are all Matryoshka Dolls, the space in which we inhabit on the Earth only made possible because of all the people we are inside, the separate pieces that make up us, whether it be father, son, nephew, art lover, or mother, daughter, wife and comedian, we are all made up of small pieces of us that decrease in size till you hit that final Babushka, the tiny and brimming with potential human that is frail, afraid and hopeful, sometimes even just excited to get out of the house.

Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, Comedy Review. The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh. Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

It’s more than likely anyone coming across the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre whilst at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival will have never had so much fun in their entire lives with something that covers up the least attractive aspect of a person’s appearance, their feet. For socks, whether dirty, clean, innocuous, outlandish or all together mystifying, socks are great things, especially when they come in pairs and deliver unbelievably great satire and beautifully delivered cringe worthy puns.

Patrick Monahan, Comedy Review. The Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh. Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

There are comedians who make you laugh, those wise masters who can make you think and those coveted people who you can find empathy and warmth within. To find someone who can control all three mystifying forces of human nature is to behold someone you can believe in and share life and a shred of existence with.