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AT SWIM-TWO-BIRDS BUT IT’S TWO COMICS CALLED NATE KITCH AND CAITRIONA DOWDEN (PBH’s Free Fringe)

By | Published on Wednesday 24 August 2022

An odd couple: Dowden is your classic Chortle Student Comedy Award-winner, monotonally exploring her precocious middle class aspirations, anxieties, mediaeval history interests and sexuality: “a girl once told me she was turned on by the cogency of my arguments”. Her self-effacing, smart and well-structured routines prove that “organised fun is inherently superior to spontaneous fun… So I’ve got a graph.” Hemingway’s ‘For sale: baby shoes, never worn’ provides more obvious inspiration for both than Flann O’Brien, though Kitch’s style is self-aware, freewheeling anti-comedy with a wink. Introducing a random passer-by to a dead pink baby spoon is a noble failure but a Gaulier clown school ‘tribute’ works better, if that’s your bag. Go support their dedication to planning, and experimenting, respectively.

PBH’s Free Fringe at BrewDog Lothian Road, until 28 Aug.
tw rating 3/5 | [Richard Tyrone Jones]

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