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Johnny Vegas - And Another Thing...

General, Manchester
From: Monday, 11th July 2011
To: Sunday, 17 July 2011

Our Review: starstarstar

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Synopsis

Johnny Vegas is without doubt the hottest, most exciting and most talked about comedian on the live comedy circuit today. Johnny's unique abilities as a live performer are the stuff of legend. With his trade mark potter's wheel and Butlin's style singalongs, Johnny has created a sensation wherever he has played, winning the acclaimed Festival Critics' Award at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival, and being nominated for the Perrier Award.

Our Review: starstarstar

15 July 2011

Described in the programme as a “creative experiment” by co-writer and performer Johnny Vegas, Manchester International Festival’s And Another Thing... combines live television and theatre in the name of “trying to tell a story in a slightly different way”.

Well, the story is this: Bryan (Vegas) and his protégé Lindsay (Emma Fryer) are shopping channel TV presenters. Working together on screen, they smash sales records, but when Lindsay is offered the opportunity to present her own line of ladies’ support underwear which would mean breaking up the team, the two inevitably come to realise just how much they need each other and, of course, what’s really important in life.

The innovation here obviously does not come from the traditional narrative. It is the introduction of a live television aspect - in which Fryer and Vegas sell hanging baskets on the Ideal World shoppi...

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