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Heart Of Daftness: Daft By Dawn Stag Hotel Thurs 2 March If you want fancy beer to accompany you with your entertainment, then head to The Stag. The skit comedy craze that has been taking over our televisions has not left the theatre behind. 'Heart Of Daftness: Daft By Dawn' is performed in the vein of comedy hour at your local; written by one of the performers, Hamish Macintyre, and performed along with Luke Dale and Cate Rogers. The three of them have created 16 short skits involving much randomness. The skits have characters from space aliens to jockeys to praying mantis doctors. The Stag as a venue is not ideal if you want your audience to hear you. I found it very difficult to decipher the performers on stage from the crowd ambience coming from the bar downstairs, so I missed some jokes and puns, but the image based humour such as the papier mache praying mantis doctor and the cardboard pinball machine were entertaining. It was particularly hard to understand Macintyre because he used many different voices for his characters, which meant some where too quiet, some where to husky, some where too fast and others just too strange to comprehend. The performers where using some good comic timing, although as often happens the changeovers between skits took some time and momentum lost on occasion. All in all, if you enjoy some cheesy surface level skit comedy then 'Heart Of Daftness: Daft By Dawn' might be your thing. It may not be everyone's cup of tea.  |
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