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Jeremy Lion - Jeremy Lion - For Your Entertainment

Menier Theatre, Outer London
From: Tuesday, 10th October 2006
To: Saturday, 11 November 2006

Our Review: starstarstar

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Synopsis

aka Justin Edwards - Perrier Award nominee (2005).

Our Review: starstarstar

16 October 2006

At the start, it's unpromising. The set looks as if it's fallen off the wrong end of an early Pinter - grubby elegance gone to seed. Elsewhere, the place is a rubbish tip. Downstage, a large body stirs from a sofa. The phone rings. The body wanders over, presses the button. “58 unread messages,” intones a voice.

This is the start of For Your Entertainment, the latest incarnation from Jeremy Lion, self-styled children's entertainer and the coming comedy thing. Perrier Award nominee, an Edinburgh sell-out for the past three years and hailed for his “freshness” (we're clearly not talking matters of personal hygiene here), Jeremy Lion, aka comic Justin Edwards, is a fully paid-up member of the belching, bucolic unkempt brigade.

For a moment, you think, Al Murray, Pub Landlord. Then again you think Tommy Cooper on a bender. Then again, a distant Monty Python cousin. Lost in a surreal world of his own and a voice that sounds as if he's swallowed a frog (th...

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