Milo Edwards is heaving with comic talent, though he does his best to look unassuming, with his baggy white T-shirt, and non-hairstyle hairstyle.
He ambles on and starts straight into this ‘work-in-progress’ new show, with occasional glances at his notes. Suffice it to say that the show has made plenty of progress already, in this good 90 minutes of non-stop foolery, always on topics that are not generally recognised as comedy material: such as being an orphan; advantages of parental death; Josef Fritzl’s attitude to family life; cancer; and more.
None of it is in any way creepy or setting out to shock. He is unfailingly hilarious in his very left-field (not necessarily left-wing) approach to everything.
This can include politics, the British character, student housing problems and how to solve them; the influence of refugees on bin collections, and more. Unimagined connections between all sorts of disparate aspects of life get the treatment.
This is highly original, extremely clever stuff in the guise of a sort of random chat with the audience.
It is, as to be expected, slightly ragged at the moment, but will undoubtedly tighten up into an award-winning show. Not to be missed.
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Reviewer: John Christopher Wood
