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Shirley & Shirley Live!
Joanna Carolan and Pascale return to London after a successful trip to the Edinburgh Festival.
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‘Characters that make you think “I wish I’d thought of that”’ Mackenzie Crook
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This show is a real treat! Two talented sketch actresses take us on a bizarre journey from a south-east London Job centre to The national ballet in a series of wonderful sketches. Some sketches are just set to music, and it works as they are both fantastic physical comedians. The Audience were in stitches throughout and at their curtain call one lady even shouted out "I think you're brilliant!" And it left me chuckling all the way to my next show. Beautifully silly.
Pascale Wilson and Joanna Carolan's style is loud, brash and full of energy ... The scenarios are well written and original and better than similar ones I have seen on television, partly maybe because they would better on stage and would have to tone down some of their material on TV in the evening time bracket.
My personal favourite is a little vaudeville act on its own as two ballet dancers squabble over food.
I was laughing all the way through. But even if you don't find it all funny, it makes for very entertaining viewing and deserves to be sold out.
What you need to know about Shirley is that she is skyscraper tall, and that the other Shirley does a more than passable impression of Jennifer Anniston and Smack the Pony's Sarah Alexander.
That TV show is surely the direction to which this talented pair must aspire, with a style that is slick and acutely aware of how to exploit the absurd.
There are characters that hit the mark with precision - the French aesthetic advisor is wickedly cynical and scantily clad - and scenarios cleverly conceived.
Creating an Asian version of the hit Abba musical and film called Mama Mumbai is hotter than an extreme curry - vindaloo aahahh to the tune of Knowing Me Knowing You.
The X Factor parody could have been sharper, but the contestant was so splendidly hapless the Cowell cut-ups and Louis "120%" Walsh samples were an unfortunate reminder that the nightmare will be upon us all too soon.
Lahndahn cliché characters are a speciality, with their silver puffa jacketed snappy and rappy Ali(son) G types, and dodgy Cockney Carol with her entertainment services for "all Caucasian occasions" hinting at a darker side of their humour yet to be fully explored. These girls are going all the way.
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