Italian company TIDA have made one of the shows of the year with Quintetto. It’s not billed as comedy: has that made it more humorous?I went to see the Best of BE festival showcase at the Barbican in London final weekend. It’s not a comedy event; its a triple-bill of the best shows from final year’s Birmingham European theatre festival. And yet,and yet – the third present on the bill may be the funniest I’ve seen all year. I’m writing about it partly to encourage you to see it for yourselves – Best of BE is touring over the next three weeks. But it also made me deem (not for the first time) about laughter and context, and about the arbitrariness of the divisions between comedy – the art form and industry – and the myriad (a very large number) other types of performances that can be equally hilarious.
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Source: theguardian.com