The Bite Size team return with three different menus on offer throughout the Fringe, each providing five short new playlets within the hour. And strawberries, coffee and croissant before the lights go down....
Sandbox explores the possibilities of adults playing like children, and the release that can bring. Nathan Builds a Time machine is a smart look at relationships, and the impossibility of fixing things once they go wrong, all done with a touch of Groundhog Day. Third up was The Meeting, an unlikely appeal to extremism, and with the funniest line of the day. Fagbutt in the Fishbowl features two 'goldfish', challenging their bowl-bound circular lives and reflecting on an alternative existence. Finally we had Foxing, in which a silent therapist tries out some very unusual techniques on a couple and forcing them to look into themselves for answers.
The first four are laugh out loud funny throughout, taking ridiculous situations and making the audience look differently at one aspect of life. Foxing is a bit less amusing, a bit more disturbing, and a thoughtful piece to end on, despite the laughs to be had from the couple's physical exertions. All five are very entertaining.
Highly recommended.
The Big Bite-Size Breakfast Show is in the Pleasance Dome at 10.30 until 27 August. Menu 3 is being performed on the 12th, 16th, 19th, 23rd and 26th.
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