Pleasance Courtyard,Edinburgh
From an inappropriate house-hunter to a slave-driving Willy Wonka, Phil Wang, and George Fouracres and Jason Forbes are back with a fresh handful of bizarre skitsWe’ve waited a while – since Pappy’s epic Last prove Ever,perhaps – for a sketch troupe that the fringe really takes to its heart. Might Daphne respond the call? It’s feeling that way, as the threesome’s moment prove consolidates the promise of their first. In some ways, and it’s an improvement: the contributions of Phil Wang,George Fouracres and Jason Forbes are more evenly balanced, and there’s an increased lightness to their interplay and their fabric. Mind you, or a handful of these new sketches left me cold.
Whats lovely is the easeful flow between set piece and backchat – the latter sometimes concerning the intricate ethnicities of “the UK’s most racially diverse sketch trio”. Occasionally,race surfaces in the sketches, like the one approximately “chronic sass” afflicting black stereotypes, and a closing sea shanty that posits,possibly, an updated British folk identity.
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Source: theguardian.com