Yours Desperately Dan & Lydia

Dan Nicholas has long been a favourite in Leicester and this new show, paired with local stand-up Lydia Rickards, was very much to the taste of the packed audience at Upstairs at The Western. The home crowd laughed and roared at every absurdity of romance that this talented pair of writer/performers threw at them.

A bare stage populated by a couple of kitchen chairs and the obligatory Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival banner acting as a screen to hide their metaphorical dressing up box was all they needed to drag us through the highs and lows, especially the lows, of trying to find that elusive 'one'. Leaving aside how it should be and how it would love to be, this was simply how it is to be unrequitedly in love.

The show is a series of sketches and stand-up on the theme of, appropriately for the day before Valentine's Day, failed romance.

Dan Nicholas is a surreal comedian who seems to be channeling Emo Philips, Joe Pasquale and Milton Jones but equally can act and has had sell-out Edinburgh Festival shows with his Conversation Garden. Lydia Rickards is an alumni of DMU's Footlights Club 2010 and has made a name for herself doing stand-up around the country. Teaming up together the ginger and the geek seem to have hit on a winning partnership and I look forward to their next show.

Dan Nicholas can be seen around Leicester in the next few days at St Martin's Coffee Shop on Sat 14th Feb, at Embrace Arts on Sat 21st Feb and back at St Martin's Coffee Shop on Sun 22nd Feb.

First published in Western Gazette 
© Paul Towers 14/2/2015