★★★★☆ The plot is a simple one; a young boy is bored having to spend nights away at Granny’s consuming a variety of cabbage based dishes, the tedium punctuated only by playing Scrabble and waiting for the inevitable very audible farting. This soon gives way to growing sense of wonder when real life is presented as not all it seems.
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★★★★☆ The entire show is performed in rhyme and song with genuinely funny lyrics performed in an impressive variety of styles and with a wide range of instruments. The script, written by the company, is an absolute joy and consistently hits the funny bone, introducing peripheral characters including the gorgeous Nina, the running mentor.
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★★★★☆ Ivan Hansen who co-wrote and performs the piece also personally greets people individually at the door and with a beguiling, child-like but assured hand, leads the audience along a series of warm, tender vignettes to a world of living memories tinged with nostalgia, and always punctuated with loud laughter.
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★★★★☆ In this highly entertaining, personally revealing and slightly political piece the two actual flatmates – or friends as Louise prefers to call themselves– explore the lives of people who used to live in their unloved and messy flat.
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★★★★☆ It is easy to see why this won the Arts Award Voice Award for Pick of the Edinburgh Fringe. Go and see it, not for any deep psychological insights into murderers or the women who love them, but because it’s a piece of original, entertaining and yes, genuinely funny, theatre.
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