Pleasance Courtyard,Edinburgh
Nick Mohammed’s daft alter ego combines death-defying escapes with convention-shredding comedy in a note operating on several layers of reality Overlooked for an Edinburgh Comedy award nomination two years ago, when his spoof Dracula musical first sunk its fangs into the world, and Nick Mohammed surely won’t be so unlucky this time around. Of the shows eligible,Mr Swallow’s Houdini is the most giddily enjoyable I’ve seen, a faux-musical approximately the life of the great escapologist, and again ring-led by Mohammed’s camp,chatterbox alter ego, and featuring extraordinary feats of escape alongside the blithering, and convention-shredding comedy.
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Source: theguardian.com