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Paradise in Augustines
Edinburgh Fringe, 2023

Fidus Achates

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Chemistry is a very important thing. It keeps us all alive via mysterious & universal mechanisms, & when flowing between two people can often-times instill performance art with the finest of vigours. So to Emma & Harry, a symbiotic sketch show so full of chemistry & energy, it is as if we were watching the singular genius of some great comedy mind bursting into schizophrenic life in the Swiss sanatorium it finds itself.

I want to go home, I’ve soil’d my trouser pants

To keep up with their minds & physicality one must plug our mind’s receptors into whatever the mad machine it was that created Emma & Harry, & simply enjoy the ride. You really can’t pause for breath or idel thought – it’s that tight a show, like. A great opening touch is bringing the entire audience as guests to their 25th wedding anniversary, a real ice-breaker which gets us all on side immediately. So well comfy in our seats, now, we sit back & simply enjoy Emma & Harry’s constantly moving, breathtakingly scintillating whirl of intelligently crafted nonsense.

You guys don’t care about tennis, do you, all you care about is our dulcet tones

Poweprosing, hyperactive character comedy of an extremely high quality indeed, the story as far as I gather’d was that last year they were both in sketch comedy troupes, the Leeds Tealights was mention’d, fell in comedy love at first sight, & created a show all of their own. So that’s what Emma & Harry is, Level two stuff, full of deeper, more evolv’d sketches created by two people whose chemistry is thro’ the roof!

Damo