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ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★ - August 2008 Youtube - By Dominic Maxwell - August 4th, 2008
ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★★ - August 2008 Chortle - By Steve Bennett - August 4th, 2008
Following last year’s triumphant Johnson and Boswell, full of virulent anti-Scottish jibes and knockabout stand-up, comes this rather disappointing sequel. This time around, Miles Jupp, who plays the elegantly arrogant Sir Walter Raleigh, and Simon Munnery, the aging queen, seem afraid to let slip they are having fun. The direction is stiffly formal, the language…
ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★ - August 2008 The British Theatre Guide - By Philip Fisher - August 4th, 2008
Stewart Lee’s latest venture feels like a work in progress, the impression hardly dispelled by a faulty sound system. Elizabeth (Simon Munnery) and Raleigh (Miles Jupp) looks at the two historical characters using the same techniques as last year’s more fluid and satisfying portrait of Johnson and Boswell. In this case, each of Mia Flodquist’s…
ELIZABETH AND RALEIGH: LATE BUT LIVE ★★★★ - August 2008 Three Weeks - August 4th, 2008
With their britches bursting with gags, Sir Walter Raleigh (Miles Jupp) and Queen Elizabeth (Simon Munnery) pull off this glorious display of costumed silliness, following the story of the Queen’s relationship with her favourite courtier. Jupp’s dashing Raleigh and Munnery’s pernickety queen do credit to that quintessentially British obsession with dressing up as our ancestors…
Scrambled Egg ★★★★ - July 2008 DooYoo.co.uk - July 31st, 2008
Advantages: Master of the craft performs finely honed routines about significant stuff. Disadvantages: Repeats much material from previous years. Stewart Lee’s new Edinburgh show is a literal egg box of laughs. Having spent much of the year in his hard-pressed job as a stand-up comedian (the hardest job in the world apparently) writing new routines…