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Article: Theatre Review: Hot Show: 66A Church Road; Simon Callow - A Festival Dickens
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- The Scotsman
- Article date:
- August 13, 2008
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66A CHURCH ROAD, TRAVERSE THEATRE (VENUE 15) **** SIMON CALLOW -
A FESTIVAL DICKENS, ASSEMBLY @ GEORGE ST (VENUE 3) ****
ONE of the joys of Daniel Kitson is that he is - in his life and
work - a living, breathing refutation of the big lie that serious
theatre and comedy on the Edinburgh Fringe are enemies, rather than
complementary branches of the same art-form. From a dazzling start
just six years ago as a 25-year-old winner of the Perrier Award,
Kitson has matured into a writer of superb dramatic monologues about
the state of our nation and our hearts in the early 21st century;
and a quite brilliant and commanding performer of them, too.
66a Church Road is described, by Kitson, as a ...