Steve Larkin opens Fat Sex by asking the audience to say hi, (once he has said hello) and asks everyone to say their names all at the same time. In this particular performance, the audience was called Samantha. Larkin then proceeds to explain that he’s from Leeds in England and that explains his accent.
Amongst the slew of solo performances at the Calgary Fringe Festival, it’s really easy to get lost amongst the shuffle. Kyall Rakoz and his entry Ludwig and Lohengrin should not be one of them. Rakoz pulls together a fairytale about King Ludwig II of Bavaria as its told by his acquaintances, close friends and supporters.
To be frank, the opening to Andrew Bailey’s Limbo didn’t really grab me. He opens by welcoming you to his monologue and then proceeds to do a bit of improv. Except he doesn’t incorporate anything given within his improvisation, mostly to prove that everyone has freedom of choice and then he spends approximately the next […]