Jason Henderson recommends 'a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining ride'.
Following their acclaimed debut Graham Rex at last year’s Fringe, Graham are back with another slick and frantic Gatling gun of sketch comedy in their show AntiGraham (****): - the brilliantly absurd story of a futuristic world where only a handful of human beings remain, following a coup d’état by earth’s population of badgers. This tale is told interlaced with fantastically funny sketches in a resulting package that sees side-splitting nuggets of comedy propelled towards the fourth wall at a joyously alarming rate.
As a group, the infectious enthusiasm and energy of Graham’s four performers (Patrick Delaney, Thomas Moore, Arthur Sturridge and Beth Rylance) never lets up, the onstage chemistry is clear for all to see, and the comedy acting is sublime. The show itself is exciting, varied and incredibly amusing, with everything from song, dance and an array of accents, to hilarity concerning cocktail menus, Irish nuns, Ancient Greeks and melted down second-hand dildos.
The sketch show format certainly isn’t up everyone’s street but it’s hard to imagine anyone not appreciating the joy of AntiGraham, aside perhaps from the odd badger. If you’re after a thoroughly enjoyable and entertaining ride at the Fringe, then checking out this whirlwind of comedy is definitely recommended.
AntiGraham at the Pleasance Courtyard, 1635.
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