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Barry And Stuart: Part-Time Warlocks

Underbelly Productions By Arrangement With Objective Talent Management

Radioactivity! Doowap! Lactation! Transmogrification! It's hard not to like Barry and Stuart, two Scottish comic illusionists, and their highly entertaining routine of quickfire magic and oddball comedy. Especially when one is wearing a deer's head while having a microphone thrust down his throat. Their routine contained both the more obvious and expected setups along with ingenious and genuinely impressive/shocking displays of "magence" - a particular highlight being one of the tricks demonstrated in their show, "Tricks From The Bible". That or the humping pirates. With quirky, often very funny and well-written deliveries, the two are a particularly good pairing, bouncing well off each other in their set and consistently getting deserved laughs.

Underbelly, 2 - 24 Aug (not 12), 10.20pm (11.15pm), prices vary, fpp 31

tw rating: 4/5

published: Aug-2008

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