A piano, a music stand, a garden hose plus two finely dressed English fellows - and you have the main ingredients of this stiff-upper-lipped-tribute band. This is the England of the 50's and the England of Flanders and Swann.
Flanders and Swann came to prominence through a couple of successful West End revues which ran for months and became best-selling records. I'm a Gnu and The Hippoptomus - being among their hits. The show brings together the best of them.
Tim Fitzhigham (whose links were seemless) bounds across the stage with the manic zeal of a man eager to share his passions, coaxing the audience and bullying his pianist, Duncan Walsh Atkins. It's a delight to see an admittedly aging audience bristle with life (and wipe away a tear) as songs of their youth are resurrected, dusted down and given fruity new life. If you fancy a joustling chorus of Mud, Mud Glorious Mud (which surely should be in the British Citizenship Test) or Maderia, M'dear then hop aboard the ninety-seven horse-power omnibus to the Pleasance Courtyard.
