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A Room With A Stew ★★★★ - August 2015 TvBomb.co.uk - By Michael Shand - August 27th, 2015
Mixing unorthodox jazz music with a deliberately screwed up pre-show announcement, and entering the vicinity wearing incongruous trainers, the audience are at once given a clue as to just how complex, multi-layered, and stand alone Stewart Lee’s A Room With A Stew is going to be. Constantly breaking all the unwritten rules about how a…
A Room With a Stew ★★★★★ - August 2015 FreshAir.org - By Will Robinson - August 26th, 2015
The Assembly Rooms audience don’t know quite what to make of Stewart Lee. The Edinburgh Fringe veteran has spent the best part of the last two decades inspiring both a dedicated following and an equally ardent opposition with his divisive and heavily ironic brand of tongue-in-cheek intellectual comedy. Luckily, the dramatic difference of opinion towards…
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh - August 2015 Postcards From The Gods - By Andrew Haydon - August 23rd, 2015
The other morning I had a read through pretty much the whole of Fringe Pig. I didn’t mean to, it’s just very easy to read; it’s amusingly written and insightful about its subject. In case you don’t know, Fringe Pig is another Edinburgh Fringe reviews site, except that instead of reviewing comedy it reviews comedy…
A tongue-in-cheek comic on top of his game - August 2015 The Guardian - By Stephanie Merritt - August 23rd, 2015
“No one is equipped to review me,” Stewart Lee declares near the beginning of this work-in-progress show, referring to the multiple layers of irony and self-awareness that exist between him and his audience. Feigning contempt for the audience and the recognition his television work has brought him is, he explains, something he does “for a…
A Room With A Stew ★★★★ - August 2015 The Scotsman - By Claire Smith - August 21st, 2015
Some comedians choose reggae or punk as their intro music, some declare their grandiosity with a blast of opera, but Stewart Lee brings us into the room with some cerebral, complicated jazz. He deliberately screws up his announcement from behind the curtain – which is another clue as to how complex and multi-layered this show…