2010年8月23日月曜日

my favourite show @ Edinburgh Fringe 2010 part III

Greg Davis :D


I'm sorry for being so easy, but I  I went to see  Greg Davis :Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog,  because of his 'The Inbetweeners' fame. Very curious. (That sitcom is kind of popular among bilinguals, and people who work in TV drama industry here in Japan. We are still waiting for its general release, though. )  There was another reason, too. His show was sooooooooo popular, all the dates during my stay were sold out.

Don't you want to see the show desperately once you find out you cannot?  I am that sort of person, so  I was lurking around the Pleasance box office, checking if there's an extra show. Luckily enough, there was one during my stay.

The show was about this strange fusion of the happiest moment and the hopeless moment.  Mr. Davis  told us a series of his experience to illustrate that.  A very powerful set. He was definitely in command of the whole audience, including the fairly drunk ones. (the show started just before mid-night,  which (I believe tells what sort of audience were like.)

 I enjoyed  its whole tone there... the audience all looked as if they knew they would love the show.  The venue was full of excitement even before Mr. Davis came onto stage. There are not so many shows that I can experience this kind of unity between the audience and the comic. And this is one of the reasons why I love live comedy so much.

2010年8月21日土曜日

My favourite show @ Edinburgh Fringe 2010 part II

Tom Wrigglesworth :D


I really really wanted to see his show because I heard so many people said they loved his show @ the Fringe Festival 2009, which was AFTER I came back to Japan. So this year, I planned very well. I booked a ticket in the beginning of July. A way too early for my friends in Scotland (they are kind of fed up with me being too organised.)

Anyway, I went to see Tom Wrigglesworth's Nightmare Dream Wedding. My expectation was really high. No homework done via You Tube, wiki, the comic's HP etc before seeing the show. I just believed it MUST BE REALLY GOOD.

Tom Wrigglesworth did not betray me. I loved the show. I loved that he was telling us a story just like it really happened, but it was not so. You could tell some parts were definitely in the fantasy league, but not every single detail. He was so good at hiding the boundary between the reality and the fantasy. And all the jokes we laughed at throughout the show became intertwined, leading to another huge laughter in the end.  I would like to call it a work of art.

Another point; Tom was really tall. That was one thing different from what I expected. :p