home All News open_in_new Full Article

Toussaint Douglass: Accessible Pigeon Material review – an eccentric hour from a fringe fledgling

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghThe south Londoner’s avian theme frames a fine debut about family, neurodivergence, pigeons, pigeons and more pigeonsTwenty years ago, Original Pirate Material emerged from Brixton and made a star of Mike Skinner AKA the Streets. Now from another corner of south London comes its near-namesake Accessible Pigeon Material, by Lewisham export Toussaint Douglass. Dry your eyes, mate? OK, Douglass’s compendium of autobiography and bird gags may not reduce you to tears. But it’s an eye-catching hour from an act with a distinctive line in do-things-his-own-way comedy.Eccentricity is relative, of course. Douglass promises (or should that be threatens?) that pigeons, pigeons and more pigeons will be all we’re getting, and, to stress the point, there’s one circulating the stage strapped to a remote-controlled car. Pigeon facts are then scattered like seed by a man with an outsized zeal for our feathered not-always-friends. But the show soon deviates from the avian...


today 5 d. ago attach_file Politics

attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Politics
attach_file Culture
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Events
attach_file Economics
attach_file Politics
attach_file Politics


ID: 759404017
Add Watch Country

arrow_drop_down