Richard Bath on Kyle Dolan’s solo-show debut at the Fringe.
★
The Fringe jungle drums are obviously working because just three of us turned up to watch this painful hour of confessional stand-up, and I’d brought one of them with me.
Dolan, a twentysomething born in Scotland and raised in Australia, comes across as a thoroughly decent and thoughtful young man, but if this is what he brings to the Fringe then a career change is in order.
His performance is based around his dual identity and his return from Down Under to the mean streets of Bishopbriggs, where his half of a dysfunctional family meets the other half in a collision which is presumably meant to be amusing but which instead elicits sympathy and, horribly quickly, boredom.
Gilded Balloon Patter House – Snug
Aug 13-18, 20-25.
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