| 06 August 2011
From the producers of The Reduced Edinburgh Impro Show emerges one of this year’s festival gems: Men of War. The members of this troupe are no strangers to success and ample praise, with David Schall (Jay’s Dad from The Imbetweeners), Cariad Lyon (Kitty Romford), Perrier nominee Stephen Harvey, and Whatsonstage nominee Gareth Kane collectively treading the boards.
Fast-paced and constantly evolving from character to character and sketch to sketch, these seasoned professionals never drop their game and compliment each other like ham and mustard. Within the hour we encounter drunks, detectives, inept paedophiles, mentalists, dodgy doctors and the type of archaic headmaster that could flush out any potential benefactor within a square mile and baffle them ‘til they just managed to escape with their sanity and chequebook.
Their dexterity and timing are, in fact, second to none. Look out for the returning drunks—I could write another paragraph of superlatives to describe the sheer brilliance of this sketch, but just go and see it for yourselves. On more than one occasion it took sheer determination on the audience’s part to regain composure between scenes. If you need an antidote to the bleak esoteric stuff on the Fringe, Men of War is it.
Men of War, Pleasance Courtyard, 3-28 August (not 17), 11:00 pm
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