Former Blue Peter presenter Stuart Miles gives us this three-woman show in which he plays all of the parts, in their full cross-dressed finery.
His first character is a young, over-dressed fashion correspondent (think Janet Street-Porter) offering advice on how to look good during the credit crunch by shopping at Primark, and then critically dissecting the audience's outfits. The first part of this was rather weak, but was enlivened by the audience interaction which showed Stuart's quick-witted and cheeky patter to it's best.
We had a video of Stuart in the dressing room during the character change-overs when the stage was empty, pretending to be a real-time look at what was going on backstage as he jumped between frocks, and explaining a bit 'as himself' (rather than as one of his characters) about his time in Blue Peter.
His next characters were a charity worker with a prosthetic finger (Annette Curtain), and then a retired-due-to-incompetence-scandal cosmetic surgeon (Noreen McCarty). Neither of these really had the content to sustain their ten minutes each on stage, and again the best part was when the characters took the piss out of the audience.
He's a nice enough guy and you could feel the audience wanting to like him, which carried him a lot of the way through this production but the material was just not up to an £8.50 Fringe show (you can see better drag routines for free in most gay pubs of a Sunday lunchtime). He's a talented boy though, and with the right show could do a lot better. Sadly, though this is not that show.
