YOUR GUIDE TO EDINBURGH'S FESTIVALS
This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.
ED2011 2/5 Reviews ED2011 Comedy Reviews
The Inflatables – Free (The Inflatables)
By Jessica Lambert | Published on Friday 19 August 2011
It is very difficult to pull off improvised comedy. You have to be exceptionally funny to be able to produce a compelling show on the spot, purely based on words the audience are shouting out at you. If you are not exceptionally funny, the resulting performance does not feel like a show at all. It feels like watching a Saturday morning drama group going through their warm-up games. ‘The Inflatables’ were very enthusiastic and clearly having great fun up there, talking in funny accents and saying silly things. Unfortunately the pleasure that they got from making up nonsense did not translate into an equally entertaining experience for the audience. This was a delightful show – but only for those in it.
Ryan’s Cellar Bar, 6 – 27 Aug (not 7, 14, 21), 5.00pm (6.00pm), free, fpp92.
tw rating 2/5
[jl]
