Comic chameleon Millerick zips through a host of quick-fire costume changes, flitting from Brummie hip-hop artist to plummy Tory and back again in this series of character sketches. Each persona is brilliantly enacted and equally entertaining; Nigel the traffic warden, for instance, who has a passion for “the petty application of arbitrary rules” and “watching people cry,” does a fantastic spiel about NHS Direct, while the mannerisms of PC Wetherby are in themselves hilarious. Millerick’s delivery was mostly spot-on; the rap at the end, however, I would happily have traded for a bit longer with shuffling Liberal Democrat Lesley Bakewell and a few more of his glorious prototype posters for Clegg’s next election campaign.

Just The Tonic at The Caves, 4 – 28 Aug (not 17), 12.55pm (1.55pm), £6.50 – £7.50, fpp164.
tw rating 4/5
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