DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time), Monkey Barrel Comedy Evaluation — Theatre & Tonic

This present is precisely what the title guarantees — a deliriously high-energy, absurdist thrill experience that leaves you breathless, delighted, and possibly just a bit bit dazed. This is a present that calls for your full consideration from the primary manic beat to the final.

I went in with towering expectations, having seen Joe Kent-Walters’ “Frankie Monroe LIVE” finally yr’s pageant. As the BBC’s New Comedy Award winner, he’s acquired loads of hype swirling round him — and in some way, he nonetheless manages to surpass it.

Even earlier than the present started, the environment was memorable. I discovered myself subsequent to a person loudly complaining concerning the chilly, the lighting, the noise — the type of mood-killer you silently pray received’t break the night. Yet, mere seconds after Frankie Monroe swaggered onto the stage, this grumbler was doubled over with laughter, tears streaming down his cheeks. And so had been the remainder of us.

This efficiency is relentless in one of the simplest ways potential — a kaleidoscope of surreal humour, exaggerated character work, and moments so ridiculous they loop proper again into brilliance. It’s overstimulating, chaotic, and masterfully managed . Kent-Walters has a knack for turning the weird into the irresistible, mixing theatre, clowning, and pure comedic intuition into one thing that feels alive and unpredictable.

Watching “Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!!” seems like being strapped right into a white-water raft — exhilarating, often alarming, and unattainable to step away from. You’re tossed from stomach laughs to jaw-drops in seconds, using waves of absurdity with no probability to catch your breath.

If you need comedy that’s extra than simply punchlines — that’s an expertise, a spectacle, and a fever dream rolled into one — get your ticket. And buckle up.

Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: DEAD!!! (Good Fun Time) is a comedy rollercoaster of absurd genius.

Playing on the Edinburgh Fringe Festival till August twenty fourth at Monkey Barrel Comedy CabVol 1 (Cabaret Voltaire)

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