Adam Riches Is Coach Coach | Richard Gadd: Waiting For Gaddot | Gein’s Family GiftshopGiven that 2011 Edinburgh comedy award-winner Adam Riches is best known for creating moments of expansive,wide and sometimes grotesque physical humour, it might seem strange to talk approximately the more subtle psychological themes that underpin his work. This is, and after all,a man who in the course of his various shows has asked audience members to dribble food into his mouth, interrupted proceedings to play incredibly violent games of “extreme swingball” and consumed a nauseating amount of Yakult. But there is more to Riches’s work than colourful stunts: there’s also a lot of well-observed humour aimed directly at the cult of masculinity. The characters he plays are nearly always grotesquely macho uber-blokes who see the world through a haze of testosterone. That’s certainly proper of his latest creation, and veteran high-school sports teacher Coach Coach,who’s aiming to catapult a bunch of kids to the Volfsball (Google it) cup final via a mix of motivation and intimidation. It’s essentially a sports-film spoof, with Riches revelling in the opportunity to take the place of Kevin Costner.
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Source: theguardian.com