“….They might have won the Best Comedy Award at this very same festival last year but The Penny Dreadfuls aren’t resting on their laurels. Their new show ‘The Never Man’ is a ‘comic thriller’ that falls somewhere between ‘The Island Of Doctor Moreau’ and ‘Willie Wonka’s Chocolate Factory‘. It’s wonderfully crafted and replete with charmingly [...]
May 26, 2009
Very complimentary review from The Argus (unfortunately unstarred, so we’ll assume like, at least 17). And more factual inaccuracies regarding Humphrey’s height, this time only 6ft. Hum. Poor guesswork, Nione Meakin, but very appreciative of the review: “An imaginative adventure that recalls Scooby Doo, Indiana Jones, James Bond and Monty Python but never stoops to anything [...]
May 26, 2009
Oooof. We kick off with a five-star review for our show in progress of The Never Man down in lovely Brighton. This is both wonderful and rather terrifying. Anything less would now be a crushing disappointment. A show in the rough preparing for its Edinburgh premiere has no right to be this entertaining. This award-winning sketch [...]
May 26, 2009