www.FringeReport.com, 27/07/2002

By John Park

Verdict: Superb

Excellent sketch show loosely centred round a quirky barman (Ed Weeks) and his timid cellarman Guy (Guy Morgan), femme fatale Ruby Duvet (Ruth Pickett), deputy head teacher Harry Man (Tom Bell), and moody acting student Marcus (Dan Stevens).

Ed Weeks is quite superb as the moody publican with dancing ambitions, Ruth Pickett smoulders sexily with excellent one-liners, Guy Morgan emerges strategically with funny interjections to deflate poetic moments from Dan Stevens's RADA postulant, and Tom Bell delivers lines of classic tactlessness to Harry's bored English students questioning the relevance of Hamlet ('What, have you never thought of committing suicide?')

This well-scripted show comes across with easy intelligence but no pomposity and bristles with laughs. Catch it in Edinburgh, and book it while it tours in September.