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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Lyn Gardner

The Slacker's Opera

Julian Fox is the Royal Shakespeare Company's stage-door keeper but here he gets his 15 minutes of fame by musing on the exorbitant price of tuna sandwiches and showing us his holiday snaps - taken on the Jubilee Line extension. Fox would like to be Madonna, but he has hardly got the energy to get up in the morning, let alone sing. This quarter of an hour is wafer thin and not everyone will fall for its surreal, quirky charm. Not everyone will even find it funny. But I did. Fox delivers his lines with a deadpan charm and there is something engagingly honest about a show that is about a man who does not know what to do with his life and is prepared to admit it in a world where everyone is busy, busy, busy.

Till Sunday. Box office: 0131-226 2428.

***** Unmissable **** Recommended *** Enjoyable
** Mediocre * Terrible

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