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Mince or quince? - August 2002 The List - By Richard Rees - August 15th, 2002
An owl wakes adrift at sea in a curiously coloured boat accompanied by a cat, its natural predator. There’s some cash lying around in the hull as well as a small guitar and, rather disturbingly, some honey. And you may ask yourself: ‘Well… how did I get here?’ At least, that’s what Stewart Lee would…
Pea Green Boat – Traverse, Edinburgh ★★★ - August 2002 Divento.com - By Ian Shuttleworth - August 11th, 2002
Lee announces this as his “first mid-thirties pretentious one-man show”, but it retains his trademark comic perspective. The idea is that Lee, having been commissioned to write a treatment of an Edward Lear biopic to star Ray Winstone(!), becomes simultaneously obsessed with Lear’s nonsense poem and with his own problems living in a flat without…
Four bags of excrement, one tea towel and a licence to fail… - December 2001 The Independent - December 16th, 2001
Where do creative ideas come from? A friend of mine thinks his beard receives them from the ether, and that when it grows too long the drooping hairs become less effective aerials. He is a wrong and lazy man. Most successful shows and stories evolve in the secrecy of writers’ garrets or rehearsal rooms before…