Two more Five-Star Reviews

Another pair of fine reviews!

★★★★★ ThreeWeeks:

How do you follow up a five-star, award winning show that took the Festival by storm last year? If you’re the Penny Dreadfuls you put on an even better show, a tour-de-force of Victorian-themed comedy that somehow manages to be even funnier than last year’s. A pastiche of Victorian adventure fiction, Aeneas Favisham Forever is packed to the bally rafters with top quality gags and whimsical buffoonery.

It would have been easy for the Penny Dreadfuls to rest on their laurels, or recycle old material, but instead they have developed the genre – the genre they created themselves – to new heights, packing in an insane number of indescribably funny and clever jokes. This is one of the Festival’s must-see events, as the sold-out room tonight demonstrated. Good show!

★★★★★ FringeReview.co.uk:

 The audience file into a simple auditorium – no frills, except for a silent oblong of blue light against a centre black flat. An empty canvas to complement the frenetic energy and character minutae that is about to burst forth onto an eagerly awaiting audience. [...] The show is liberally peppered with moments of true brilliance, not least the use of shadow puppets (from Jeremy Bidgood) to depict chase scenes and legends. These too, are hilarious and silly in equal portions. [...]

If you like Spymonkey, if you remember Newman and Baddiel’s ‘History Today’ and if you just want to have a damnable good laugh, then be (very) entertained by Aeneas Faversham Forever.