The Apocalypse Roadshow

Yorkshire's helpful heroes take their inept phone-in advice service to the road. The show brings all it's pointers on how best to avoid strange men and give birth during a nuclear disaster.The show manages to transfer some of its high energy to the audience despite the muggy performance space. This series of comedy sketches pokes fun at those old favourite punch bags of comedy, Yorkshire characters and St Johns Ambulance. While its silliness and over the top energy was impressive and entertaining, it did not have me rolling round laughing. Often the script was unremarkable, which would grate when combined with the overexcitement of the show to leave me feeling distanced and uninterested. The show is a mixture laugh out loud entertainment and dispassionate intrigue.

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The Blurb

Renegade entertainment. The Dog-Eared Collective poke the coals of panic in an explosive sketch show about the end of the world. 'Offbeat to the extreme ... it's 'The Mighty Boosh' meets 'The League of Gentlemen''(Fest). www.dogearedcollective.co.uk

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