George Egg DIY Chef

Review by: Paul Towers, 16/02/18

George Egg DIY Chef

Upstairs @ The Western, 15 – 17^th February 2018

“an evening of non stop laughs

George Egg brought us his 2016 show, George Egg Anarchist Cook when he let us into the secrets of cooking in hotel rooms with the bare essentials.

Now he makes a welcome return with his 2018 show in which he has, through necessity, taken his alternative methods of cooking to new extremes.

After a minor health scare his long suffering wife has put him on a strict, bland diet, banished him from the kitchen and told him to go and ‘fiddle with stuff’ in his shed at the bottom of the garden. There our hero has used his fertile imagination to find ways of satisfying his taste buds.

So, live on stage, George prepares a 3 course meal every night and serves it up to the audience at the end of the show. Tonight we had kippers and eggs (broiled under a steam paint stripper!), pasta with a lovely cheese sauce (tagliatelle created from sheets of fresh pasta put through an office paper shredder) and steak cooked on a shovel with a blow torch.

Now, that would all be impressive enough but all the while George amuses us with food facts, hilarious patter and rubbish poetry.

With a  look that owes much to Bill Bailey and a surreal sense of humour that matches his look this is an evening of non stop laughs and a free meal at the end of it. What more can you ask? Tonight’s show is supported by Nisbets, catering equipment to the licensed premises industry.

George Egg is back at Upstairs at The Western tomorrow (Saturday) but is sold out. Watch the theatre twitter feed for any returns. Otherwise catch this hilarious show on tour. Full details on www.anarchistcook.info

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First published on Western Gazette