Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Wine Bar, Gilded Balloon, Teviot – until 28 August
1*
Billed as a jolly good romp through childhood this just didn’t appeal to our inner child The adventures of the well known (not famous) four set down on the South coast but not Dorset was supposed to be a parody.
So many parts didn’t work, be it the stripping uncle – why??? Or the crab jokes from the narrators or any of the other bits that just didn’t work.
Why did they need to steal dogs when they were smuggling fish pies? What was the point of the Fanny the maid? The liver casserole? And why didn’t we take the chance to escape like all the other people who were leaving around us? Many questions and I doubt many answers.
But in the spirit of the fringe, this is only an hour (it did seems much longer) and if nothing else, it’s a sit down and a shelter from the rain – you however may enjoy it