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ED2014 3/5 Reviews ED2014 Comedy Reviews
Robert Newman’s New Theory Of Evolution (Robert Newman)
By Charlotte Taylor | Published on Sunday 31 August 2014
Surely only at the Fringe could you find a stand-up show about theories of evolution? I was given flashbacks to university lectures by Rob Newman’s discussion of the concept of survival of the fittest, and his description of how a series of mishaps and missteps led him to propose the ‘misfit theory’, his own new theory of evolution. The show is replete with descriptions of bizarre animal behaviours and intellectual insults to Richard Dawkins, alongside a well planned series of jokes; yet often the balance is not quite right, the stand-up feeling lost in sea of scientific jargon, while musical numbers add little. Ultimately the show is too much like a documentary for its own good.
The Stand In The Square, until 25 Aug.
tw rating 3/5 | [Charlotte Taylor]
