Voodoo Rooms This show's bracing lack of sentiment finds a new and compelling angle on the 'dead dad' comedy tropeThe "dead dad" comedy show is now much mocked: it's seen as a cliche, and a cheap way to give your Edinburgh show emotional ballast. At first, John-Luke Roberts seems to be sending up the genre, by abstracting it into very strange behaviour, and doggedly withholding any sentiment other than derisive filia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AM on August 25, 2015