A Regular Little Houdini (Flying Bridge Theatre) [Pleasance 10 Dome]
Spoken word piece of a Welsh lad growing up wanting to ape his hero, Harry Houdini. But circumstances arise that are difficult to escape. A tour-de-force performance from Daniel Llewellyn-Williams, who also wrote the script based on a true story.
Improvised Adventures in Time and Space (The Young Actors Company) [Forest Theatre in Greenside @ Infirmary Street]
Improvised WHO by a young cast. Possibly not enough Doctor and companion (whose name never seemed to mentioned. Superb title sequence recreation though.
Adventures of the Improvised Sherlock Holmes (Ghostwriters) [Just the Tonic at The Community Project
Improvised Sherlock #2. Narrowly beaten into second place, despite having the better Holmes (Tom Wilkinson), ably assisted by Watson (Tom Skelton). I saw the same pair playing the opposite roles the previous year.
Kevin Quantum: Illuminations (Kevin Quantum) [Debating Hall in Gilded Balloon Teviot]
Someday we'll find it, the Rainbow Connection. Magician Quantum plays with light and water, before creating rainbows using sand. The finale aside, had seen all tricks before, some the previous evening
The Game's Afoot (David Stuart Davies) [The Arthur Conan Doyle Centre]
A return trip to DSD's one-man history of Holmes & Doyle. Just as good a year later (and he signed 2 more books for me!)
Holmes & Watson: The Farewell Tour (David Adkin Productions) [Space 2 in theSpace on the Mile]
Prior to Holmes' retirement, Holmes (Adrian Banks) and Watson (Liam Nooney, channelling David Walliams) act out one of their most perplexing cases without their usual supporting artists. Very funny with canonical touches.
Straight Outta Cruttenden (Hal Cruttenden) [Forth in Pleasance Courtyard]
Very funny midlife anger from the second most camp straight man that I know. His increasing frustration at people walking across the performance area was a delight to behold.
Awards to follow.
Glad I'm still top of the CSMIK stakes. I do like Hall Cruttenden though.
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