Trevor Lock’s innovative and intimate improv show will help you restore your faith in just how funny everyone can be. Because, although he’s conducting proceedings, he wants you to be the focal point; it’s your jokes and intrusive thoughts he’s after. He asks his audience to look around the room and be nosy, pry into your fellow crowd members’ lives, give your uninformed guesses. Maybe someone looks suspicious, another looks bored, you might like the look of someone – let Trevor know through his WhatsApp channel and he will bring all to light.
The results are surprisingly hilarious and absolutely unique to the specific show you are watching. Perhaps you fancy yourself a bit of a jester; tell Trevor your one-liners and epiphanies – it turns out that comedians do not own a monopoly on comedy. In a faux alcoholics anonymous setting, you’ll learn something about yourself, you’ll bounce off the quips of total strangers, and reveal more than you feel comfortable with. It’s a charmingly fun and open environment.
To say that all the laughs come from the audience would be entirely disingenuous. Lock is an excellent improviser; he can do a lot with so little and manages to maintain the room’s momentum even in the barren moments. And barren moments there are – they come with the territory in such a set up – and you will occasionally hear some absolutely feckless comments, but there’s no denying this show’s ingenuity and sheer fun factor.
Trevor Lock: Audience Anonymous, 14.45 PBH’s Free Fringe, Bannerman’s, until August 25
https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/trevor-lock-audience-anonymous
