She’s Not Just Quiet..She’s Dead
Tracy Crisp
In this soul-destroying venue, Tracy Crisp purposely sets out to talk about a soul-destroying subject in a soul-destroying manner. Fortunately, she fails with her aim and pulls off a decent account of her adventure with the “dead Head Librarian”. The piece is cleverly written, playing around with words, repetition, rhyme and metre, making it eloquent and entertaining for those word geeks such as myself. Unfortunately, the piece did seem to drag and I found that Crisp’s deadpan monotonous voice was encouraging me slowly to close my eyelids. The comedy itself was very sporadic, starting off strongly but waning quickly. If the events of this piece were condensed to allow time for more comedic situations it could be much better.
The Space on the Mile @ Jury’s Inn, 6 - 22 Aug (not 9 or 16), 7.35pm, £7.00, fpp 96
tw rating: 2/5
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