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69 Moments of Life
Actor, You're Killing Me
Air Tight Security
Almost True Adventures ...
Amazing Improvised Musical
Animal Farm
Ballerina on a Horse
Beautiful Man
Berserker
Caffe di Amore or ...
Check the Box
Clearing Hedges
Corned Beef
Countless
Crime & Variations
Death Blow II: ...
Demon Pope
Diagnosis: Jew Pain ...
Disco Prophecies
Ethan's Gift
Far From Springer
Fixed Boundry
Forty Love
Got Water
I Can't Believe They're Not Oriental!
Idiot Machine: ...
In Cahoots
John Muir: Watch, Pray, Fight
Late Night Talk Show
Ludlow and Canal
Magic at the Fringe
Man 1, Bank 0
Marx in Soho
Mixed Signal
Mother: A Modern Buddhist ...
Naked Inqisition
nEO - surrealists present: ...
Neon's Crazy Blue
Nharcolepsy
Original Action Pack
Park - N - Ride
Passages
Sandwich
Scabaret!
Searching for God in Kerala
Seventh Game of the World Series
Shadow Kissers
Strobe Vision
This World is Not My Home
Total Improvisation - ...
Train Stories
Tripping on the Equator ...
Twinspeak
Play: Death Blow II
Reviewer: Susan
Reviewer Email: sallen@vsite.com
Rating: 5 Stars
This is a most talented and Fringe award deserving group. I loved them
last year, and I am happy to say the romance continues. Mr. Dunn, Mr. Shockley
and Mr. Rackham have managed to combine silliness with a compassionate wit
that creates jewel like moments of theater - some diamonds, a ruby, a couple
of emeralds, some turquoise, and a man-made opal; and all very good. The
imbedded journalist, the audition for Napalm in the Morning, the intrepid
arctic explorers, the return of the Mummy's nose again, and the cultural
dance - all these and more have brought a smile to my face or caused me
to chuckle in the days following the Friday opening.
Thank you all for being so good and for inspiring me to want to see more sketch art. You make being an audience member seem very important indeed. I didn't want to miss a thing, because you make everything seem immediate and newly re-imagined. I shudder to think how my life would be never to have experienced a Death Blow once and now twice.
Play: Death Blow II
Reviewer: Emily
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Rating: 4 Stars
You must see the Brits - they are truly talented and marvelously silly,
and it had the best sound effects, ever! Ben Shockley was my favorite. The
Elvis bit was too long but overall the show was very entertaining (if you
like British comedy - and if you don't, you should be shot). A rollicking
55 minutes of laughter.
Play: Death Blow II: The British Are Coming
Reviewer: Vince Vitale
Reviewer Email: WorldGazer@aol.com
Rating: 5 Stars
These three Brits are sketch artists for sketch artists. They continuously
interact with their script directions as being dialogue. They unabashedly
use plots and characters from their last year’s production. (You may
recall The Return of the Mummy’s Nose? Well, it’s returned again!)
When one convinces the others that they are not leaning on a bar, they fall
to the ground. And when three explorers in a snow blizzard on a mountain
top turn and discover us, we are there. If you feel very, very cold in that
moment, you may want to consider discovering your own inner-sketch-artist.
These blokes are pros.
Play: Death Blow II: The British Are Coming
Reviewer: Lucy
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Rating: 4 Stars
John Rackham will be my butt-puppy! Well, no. Actually, I have no need for
a butt-puppy, but I wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating pudding, either.
He's one of the most versatile performers I've ever seen, and he's cute,
too.
Last year's "Death Blow" was a nice surprise, coming on the heels of "Heart of Darkness," from the same company. It's an even nicer surprise to see Henry Dunn rejoin the party for "Death Blow II."
Silly, irreverent, and even occasionally relevant (embedded journalists, anyone? I hear they're quite tasty); I only wish Fu Manchu had made an appearance.
Play: Death Blow II: The British Are Coming
Reviewer: Dick Karp
Reviewer Email: dick@catapult.com
Rating: 3 Stars
I liked the original "Death Blow" last year, but this one was
just a bit too derivative. Some new material, but a lot that was overly
reminiscent of what had gone before. Probably, had I not seen last year's
show, I would have given a higher rating.
The genre is Monty Python and all of the cast members are hardworking. It's a high energy show and the cast is up to the challenge. Occasionally I couldn't make out what they were saying; guess I must have fallen asleep once too often during my British Language class. Timing is good and direction is tight.
I look forward to seeing more new material from these folks in the future!
Play: death blow 2, the british are coming
Reviewer: peggy ellen
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Rating: None
never thought I could pee my pants and not regret the wet spot squishing
around on my seat while I jiggled about laughing like a kid at these boys,
henry dunn and ben shockley were amazing, and the other guy, oh well. catch
this one for guilty fun.