Kate Copstick from the Scotsman was at my show earlier this week, and she wrote a really nice review. For some reason, and despite several email requests, the Scotsman haven't put the review online. I almost missed it. Kate was however cool enough to mail it to me, and here it is (personally I think it reads more like a four star review, but I might be biased):
COMEDY
Dag Sørås
3 stars
The Stand(12)
From the land that gave us trolls, Ibsen and A-ha comes Dag Sørås, recommended by no less than Doug Stanhope himself. And that is good enough for me.
This is not so much a show as an hour-long club set, but it is peppered with enough good stuff to hold an audience, even at midnight. Sørås is the master of the comedic similie, and deliciously appalling imagery. Religious zealots, people talking bullshit, and Tony Blair as peace envoy all give Sørås fuel for his bonfire of idiocies. His explanation of the true effect of the end of slavery is quite brilliant, and his argument about Obama ending the occupation but leaving 50,000 troops there should be on every anti-war activist's lips. It is also laugh-out loud funny and utterly, appallingly accurate.
His closing riff on how feeling uncomfortable is the essence of feeling alive uses another of his fabulously wrong similies. And then there was a bit about fingering a dead deer... Sørås's dark, but Doug's dead right.
Kate Copstick
Until 29 August
P51
Way to go Dag! You're right though: it sounds more like a 4 star review.
ReplyDeleteThis is excellent. Only thing that's negative is that it just as well could have been a long set on a clubnight. Which it is...nice.
ReplyDeleteKeep your chin up Dag. Though I can't enjoy your shows in Edinburgh, I have just blogged about you and Magnus Betner. http://www.shaunrussellnordic.com/2010/08/comedy-in-foreign-tongues.html
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