Pythonesque Comedy by a Dry Surreal Geordie Bloke who has ADHD 4**** - One4Review
one4review | On 12, Aug 2024
I love when performers nail the title and the blurb, and the show you see is exactly the one you were expecting to see. Even better when the quality of the show is high and it delivers as promised, excellently. We weren’t a massive audience, but the volume and regularity of the laughter would have made you think otherwise.
The Pythonesque is found in Sean’s animations, and they are, if you squint a bit, reminiscent of the Monty Python animations. They’re fun and good vehicles for the rest of the show. The Comedy is another tick. There’re different flavours, but it’s all good and well written, often silly and occasionally a bit dark. The dry is in Sean Turner’s delivery: dry as dust, but not without levity and without being monotonous. It’s the delivery that really makes the show, and without it, the rest would collapse. Slowly, but it still wouldn’t have the same charm.
The surreal is in the narratives. Surrealism isn’t just random stuff slung together; the good stuff is carefully curated and casually delivered to make it look effortless. This is the good stuff. Mr Turner also seems to be a Geordie bloke, though is capable of making his voice not-Geordie for delightful comic effect, and if he says he has ADHD it’s none of my business to argue.
If any of the words in the title makes you think this show would be your jam, then it likely will be – and it’s good, too.
Reviewed by Laura
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