| 11 August 2011
Fresh from touring the UK with Milton Jones and Josie Lang, James Acaster's Edinburgh debut celebrates those little things in life that cannot help but raise an irrepressible smile. Seeing the sea, hiding, the fifth stroke in a tally and getting his pound back from the trolly all make him click his heals with joy. This is a wide-eyed offering that is self-effacing and quite delightful to witness.
It seems that James exudes excitement. That is, of course, when he is not nervously contemplating the havoc that the alleged show-crashing 10-year-old girls could wreak upon his show: “We could just turn the audience around to face the door to outsmart them and create a buffer!” he whimpers hopefully. With such ramblings up his sleeve, the audience immediately warms to his Easter-Bunny-caught-in-the-headlights persona.
Acaster truly is gangly and gawky beyond measure, happily devoting five minutes to describing his reaction to various kinds of donuts (his favorite being an onion ring that looks deceptively like an actual donut). This is where he divides his audience. With such immaterial material as this, unless you are willing to indulge him and keep listening for the long awaited punchline that does eventually come, you are likely to lose interest. Decide wisely over which side of the fence you will fall before committing to this one.
James Acaster: Amongst Other Things, Pleasance Courtyard, 3-29 Aug (not 16), 9.45 pm
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