Dave Hearn press clippings - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)

Press clippings

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The Time Machine: A Comedy review

This riff on HG Wells's sci-fi novella has a sharp cast but relies on a wearisome play-within-a-play concept and lacks momentum.

Chris Wiegand, The Guardian, 3rd March 2023

Fire alarm forces show onto street

In space, nobody can hear you scream... but they can hear the fire alarm that drove performer and punter alike onto the street.

British Comedy Guide, 18th August 2022

Review: Magic Goes Wrong (Vaudeville Theatre)

All in all, Mischief Theatre have done it again with another fun night at the theatre where more goes right than wrong . . . or should that be more goes wrong than right?

Tony Peters, West End Wilma, 13th January 2020

Theatre review: Magic Goes Wrong

What's missing is the unexpected -- this is a series of uneven sketches on the same running gag, although there is also some proper, brilliant magic too.

Claire Allfree, Metro, 13th January 2020

Magic Goes Wrong, Vaudeville Theatre review

Mischief Theatre's "Goes Wrong" oeuvre is now well established: broad humour combined with physical comedy and slapstick mishaps. Magic Goes Wrong, though, is the company's first outside collaboration - with American magicians Penn & Teller, themselves purveyors of fine spoof comedy of the ta-da! kind.

Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 10th January 2020

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