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Scrambled Egg ★★★★★ - August 2008 Pretentious Writer.com - August 19th, 2008
In the sweltering heat of the Edinburgh Stand, Stewart Lee plays mainly to a packed room full of people who are already predisposed to liking him. Nevertheless he insists, stand up comedy is the hardest job in the world. Sarcasm is this man’s backbone and in this years show, basically a rehearsal of old and…
ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE - August 2008 Time Out - By Dan Geary - August 13th, 2008
It’d be hard, and perhaps unfair, to talk about Stewart Lee’s follow-up to 2007’s historical comedy Johnson & Boswell without mentioning ‘the other’ alternative Elizabethan comedy. But for all its defects, one thing is certain – though Simon Munnery’s portrayal of Elizabeth I is quite different from Miranda Richardson’s in Blackadder II, it’s still as…
ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★★ - August 2008 Whatsonstage - By Stuart Denison - August 12th, 2008
After last year’s fringe success Johnson and Boswell: Late but Live, Stewart Lee returns to the Scottish capital having penned another historical reanimation, this time turning his comedic eye towards the infamous relationship between England’s supposed ‘Virgin Queen’, and her favoured courtier and probable lover, Sir Walter Raleigh. However, where the former offering was well…
Scrambled Egg - August 2008 The Void - By David Hepburn - August 11th, 2008
Stewart Lee returns for what seems like his 145th Edinburgh show with a ‘work in progress’. Likely to be a different show every night, Lee is showcasing old and new material which he intends to use for an upcoming television project. Because of the format it’s impossible to say what will come up on any…
ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★ - August 2008 The Metro - By ANDRZEJ LUKOWSKI - August 10th, 2008
If last year’s Stewart Lee-penned historic character comedy Johnson And Boswell was a ramshackle, late-night treat, its successor is sadly rather closer to that inadvisable end of the evening kebab. Miles Jupp and a dragged-up, white-faced Simon Munnery return to play Sir Walter Raleigh and Elizabeth I, but they’re not really afforded the chance to…