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Review: The Dog-Eared Collective
Keep a beady eye on The Dog-Eared Collective. This comedy sketch troupe are most definitely going places. The small stage at the Wardrobe Theatre to the small screen perhaps? Whatever the journey ahead, the four friends will be taking their Paddington Bear costume and their games of Connect Four and Scrabble with them.
These are just a few of the props in You’re Amazing (Now Look at Me), their wonderfully inventive and gloriously surreal show which stopped off for one night only in Bristol, but will hopefully be back soon before a trip to the Edinburgh Festival.
From an Irish dance troupe who have choreographed a routine to symbolise the Good Friday Agreement to a fortune teller exposing the twaddle delivered by psychics such as Sally Morgan with thanks to a game of Guess Who, sketches came thick and fast and almost all garnered plenty of laughs.
The only slight dip in the energy came when a parade of 80s icons were conjured from the imagination of a bespectacled office worker to be her new colleagues.
But the lack of recognition said more about the audience at the Wardrobe Theatre, children of the 90s not of the 80s, than the standard of comedy, which was top-dog.
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