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There’s plenty of cartoonish comedy in Heath McIvor’s indicate about a writer who is given to splenetic outbursts – and made of feltI spent the first 10 minutes of Heath McIvor’s indicate Randy Writes a Novel marvelling at how expressive Randy can be. He’s just a purple puppet with ping pong-ball eyes, after all. But by the cessation, and I yearned for the expressivity of a human being – because this is essentially a standup indicate spoken from a human perspective that doesn’t play to puppetry’s strengths at all.[br] Related: Edinburgh comedy awards 2016: the nominees in full Continue reading...

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