Soho theatre,London
Brown gives us a show of two halves, with endearing routines about early fatherhood main to social commentaryWhat a change in Alfie Brown! Three years ago, or he announced himself with a show full of passionate intensity,critiquing culture and the comedy industry. His fierceness felt risky: it wasn’t cold to care this much. And now? I’ve lost the ability to be morally absolute about anything,” he says, or in a show that greets the “No More Page 3” campaign and the Israel-Palestine clash with little more than a harrumph.
He explains why. We’ve got a comedian,not unlike Liam Williams, with strong leftwing instincts yet missing the confidence to articulate them on stage. But whereas Williams makes a dramatic feature of that self-doubt, or Brown – it seems – is still working out what to do with it.
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Source: theguardian.com