Stephen Greer | stevie.greer@gmail.com | 16 posts
A glowing four-star review from The List for The Never Man: A quality spoof from hammy trio This positively undreadful show spoofs Bond and Hitchcock movies, Dirty Harry and The Prisoner in a delightfully strange hour of stupidness. Set in the theme park of Beef Island, Paul (an 83/4-year-old small boy, played by the giraffe-like [...]
August 17, 2009
The Never Man is The Penny Dreadfuls’ brand new show for 2009. A terrifying new comedy thriller set on a mysterious themepark island. The competition-winners are thrilled to wake up on Beef Island, the joyous themepark resort, full of your favourite beefy friends. But there’s no way out for one man, waking up with a [...]
August 16, 2009
Fresh reviews from the Edinburgh Fringe for The Never Man from The Stage: “… goofiness, eccentricity and chemistry that has the flashes of the young Pythons and the sound of Rowan Atkinson from his Blackadder days,” and The Sunday Herald: And then there’s The Penny Dreadfuls, a trio whose dramatic references between two great traditional [...]
August 22, 2008
Today’s Metro: The jokes in Aeneas Faversham Forever come thick and fast, and there’s no time to catch a breath between guffaws as the trio bound from one example of perfect comic character acting to another. With Hambledon remarking that his new secretary ‘looks much younger than her lithograph’ and his wife popping out to [...]
August 17, 2009