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Festival or Fringe

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City

Dublin

Country

Ireland

Year

2010

CACTUS: THE SEDUCTION

@ 2010 ABSOLUT Fringe

13th -18th September @ 8.00 pm

Duration 60 minutes

Side-splitting comedy that is both irresistible love story and carnival of boundless imaginings.

Phil wanders through the desert in search of true love, persistently hallucinating that he has an audience, in this surreal, ridiculously funny one-man show. From the director of the music video for 2009 festival hit ‘Die Roten Puntke: Ich bin nicht ein roboter (I am a lion)’.

Directed by Mark Chavez of the Pajama Men.

‘Outstanding Solo Performance’, Ottawa Fringe. ‘Best of Fest’ Winnipeg Fringe.

‘Best Male Performer’ Victoria Fringe. ‘Best of Fest’ Toronto & Vancouver Fringes.

“ Deserves more exclamation marks than the paper will allow. If you can’t get tickets, it is imperative that you either steal them or sneak in.” ***** Terminal City, Vancouver .

“Jonno Katz emailed me last year to say he’d love to come to Dublin. Seeing his show made me sure that Dublin would love to see him too”. Róise Goan, Director, ABSOLUT Fringe.

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Cactus: The Seduction 2010-09-06 10:13:45 Kate Copstick

Overall rating		4.0
Audience Experience		4.0
Value for Money		4.0
Venue Comfort		4.0
Trailer Quality		4.0

Reviewed by Kate Copstick September 06, 2010
Last updated: September 06, 2010

Cactus - The Seduction by Kate Copstick

This is an intricately woven show, and although it is incredibly funny, its glorious web of clowning, mime, stand-up and storytelling is so fantastical it is inevitably fragile. Having ten punters leave early because the show was running 15 minutes late would have floored a lesser performer with a lesser show. But I cannot imagine anything ruining a performance by this man. He is quasi-magical on stage.

The show is lovely, studded with tiny delights and dancing lightly along a line between fantasy and reality (don't worry, Jonno explains everything at the end, as long as you can stay).

But Jonno himself is like no-one I have ever seen - part clown, part wordsmith, wholly irresistible. If you are not immediately entranced by this man-boy comedy genius then I hope you have made a will because you must have died while waiting in the queue.

For half of the show, Jonno is talking to us and, apart from one etiolated gag I first heard more than ten years ago, Jonno's stand up is in not just a class but a world of its own. When was the last time you accidentally laughed a tiny bit of snot out at a joke about a staircase?

The "fantasy" part of the show concerns three men - Uri, Phil and Eric - on a journey towards an ideal lover. It doesn't end well. But no-one does pathos like Jonno.

The end of the show is "touching" in a way you shouldn't bother to imagine before you see it. And you must see this show.

Cate Copstick
Published @ Edinburgh Festivals
http://www.edinburgh-festivals.com/viewreview.aspx?id=1506