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Show type: Edinburgh Fringe 2002
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The Cosnsultants: Finger In The Wind Perrier best
Rum corporate info-tainers play hardball with team building sexercises, dancing bears, bilious ventriloquist Jeremy Lion and the haunting songs of a Bolivian folk bandit singer and his poor brothers.
Original Review:
The besuited Consultants parody the high-flying world of cutthroat decision-making with a variable array of absurd sketches on modern life. Some are thought-provoking, subtle and spookily accurate - the children's entertainer and the Filthy Goose glove puppet being The show is peppered with one-liners and snappy observations, ranging for the silliness of the Carry On era to explorations of a potato-based capitalist market - and performed by a confident and adept team of actors. Yet some sketches are a bit laboured, with the quality falling well short of the finer moments. Low points include the seemingly inane murder scene and the drawn-out exam sketch that seemed to leave the audience bewildered. And at times it slumped into the distinctly unimpressive Chuckle Brothers school of comedy, with 'hilarious' quack noises and a peurile song entitled Fiddle With Me Diddle De Dee. The multitalented threesome have clearly given a lot of thought to this frequently intelligent and well-written show, which they perform with flair, gusto and a keen sense of comic timing. Yet the inclusion of several irrelevant and ill-conceived skits - culminating in a visually funny but stereotypical and weak song by a Bolivian folk band - suggests a fair degree of padding around the core of brilliant sketches. |
They were great! Very fresh and unique, but relying on good old British sense of fun and timing. I look forad to seeing much more of them on stage, TV and radio. Mark Kempner, November 2002 |