Dear Sir,

I would like to say the profound sadness that your review has left me with. I am the author of the offending sketch. There is no mention of bestiality in it what so ever. Sir Saffron’s term “make love” and “gentle lover,” are meant in only the purest platonic terms. Sir Saffron is infact based on a very dear, dear friend of mine who spent 2 years in a psychiatric institution in the 1950s. Partly due to his homosexuality and in part due to his radical views on nudity. This was a cry for tolerance a plea for never returning to those dark days. You’re damning critique has reduced us both to tears and Sir Saffron to the bottle.

The theatre has long been the frontier of the radical performing arts. Unlike TV or podcast one must actual buy one’s ticket and face the performers. And as such from the glory days of Shakespeare’s globe via The Roman’s in Britain, the theatre has stood for all that is brave and icconaclastic in the performing arts.

But this critic has found a new low tactic. She has brought her progeny with her to the theatre. And now every play must be judged by whether it offends and innocent? Will there be no more bisexuality in the Rocky Horror Show? No more pies in Titus Andronicus? Will Shylock settle for a nice apology. Lest some spotty neonate be inspired to commit a criminal act on the way to playing Grand Theft Auto?

Yours sincerely Mr Edd.

PS You may want to check out “Daddy’s Horse is not a Pet.” By George Willard and his wfe Pixel. In some 12 US states loving relationships between animals and humans are recognised.

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Review: Sam and Dave Comedy Sketch Show, Brewhouse Theatre
8:50am Thursday 1st July 2010

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Review, Sam and Dave Comedy Sketch Show, Brewhouse Theatre TWO words sum up the Sam and Dave Comedy Sketch Show at the Brewhouse: bad taste.
I arrived with my 11-year old step-daughter, to be informed five minutes previously the staff had learned that the show was unsuitable for children.
She duly watched the main show while I reviewed the studio performance.
I wanted to like them. Local comedians, personable, versatile actors with excellent characterisation, Sam and Dave look the part. However their claim to take the everyday and find the funny side, influenced by Morecambe and Wise, falls flat.
Only Bernard Manning and the couple of people who were still chuckling and applauding by the end would have been proud of the material.
I can laugh at innuendo, risqué sketches, some non-pc jokes. But this overstepped the mark with an obsession with sex and in particular bestiality.
Suitable for a private club at midnight after several drinks, maybe, but not a local theatre at 8pm. And there was a child in the audience, whose parent, presumably, had as I had done, checked the website to see the following: “the show’s innocence and charm….”
I appreciate that the Brewhouse does not see the material beforehand but more must be done proactively to check its appropriateness for age. And Sam and Dave have talent, but poor judgement.
By Julie O’Donnell.