The Birth Of A New Comedy Colossus

This is one of those hidden gems on the Fringe that you occasionally stumble upon and then wonder why you haven't heard about it from anybody else. This is a play with a wonderfully twisted comedy core and its one of those pieces that is perfect for the Fringe. It appears to be set in Edwardian England though there are temporal references which set it in about three other time frames, but who cares, it just makes some of the scenes all the more funnier. We discover in the opening scene that our heroine is about to travel out to India to marry her betrothed and the tail unfolds from there.

On the journey a terrible storms erupts and they crash land in Shangri-La. The journey replayed with shadow puppets is amongst one of the funniest scenes I have watched on the Fringe this year. The story then shows the slow transition from the materialistic self obsessed individuals they all are to, err, well watch it for yourself to discover what Shangri-La can truly offer you. The young cast portray a range of ridiculous characters and the writing puts them into some bizarre situations, the resulting chaos is madness with belly laughs.

There is great promise here, the comedy is surreal and very funny, occasionally the pace slackens or the timing is a little off (but it's early in the run) but I see the seeds of comedy greatness, and I suspect and hope that I have witnessed the birth of a new comedy colossus. All hail the new force in farce, the masters of mayhem, the commanders of comedy, the ~ well you get the idea!!