Trevor Tinsley is a small-town grocer with a devoted wife and new baby – but his desire to taste the forbidden fruit of free love leads him astray and into the welcoming arms of his neighbour’s wife. A host of comic characters are revealed as Trevor’s hilarious misadventures lead him into conflict with his strait-laced community and provoke his narrow-minded wife into a surprising reaction of her own! Read more …
TV favourites including Craig Gazey, winner of National Television Best Newcomer award and British Soap Best Comedy Performer award for his portrayal of Coronation Street’s popular innocent Graeme Proctor; Emmerdale’s Suzanne Shaw, Champion of ITV’s Dancing on Ice, West End star of Chicago and Joseph and Pop sensation; Gemma Bissix, two-time British Soap award-winner for her role in Hollyoaks; Vicky Entwistle, best known as the feisty Janice Battersby in Coronation Street, and Heartbeat’s Steven Blakeley come together in this award-winning comedy classic.
Unfortunately Funny Peculiar feels reanimated rather than brought back to life.
This Funny Peculiar emerges as a show well worth seeing; particularly for connoisseurs of British popular culture, and the series of strange revolutions and backlashes which have shaken and stirred it, in the last half century.
Craig Gazey strips off for Funny Peculiar
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh from Monday February 27, 2012, until Saturday March 3, 2012. More info: http://www.edtheatres.com/festival