By Ollie Wilson
What a crazy, imaginative, hilarious show!
Joe Smith, Harris Morris and Sam Dodgshon have created a remarkably surprising, absurd and fun comedy about American 'helicops' - half-men, half-helicopters - seeking the killer of one of their own. The convoluted plot doesn't matter much; it's all in the extraordinary performance, beefy accents and zany antics. At one point, the audience is repeatedly encouraged to bombard the actors with little plastic birds and then retrieve them from the stage to start again! It is chaos!
Moreover, the interrogation scene, involving a game punter, is brilliantly funny, and the gifted cast make the most of technical glitches and line slippages to win additional laughs. I loved the helicop hats and the walking Helicop HQ. And the relentlessly daft gags had the audience in stitches.
This wonderful alternative comedy will only get even stronger and slicker as the Fringe goes on.
Star Rating: *****
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