Review: Festival of the Spoken Nerd, The Bloomsbury Theatre, London
Posted: January 19, 2012 Filed under: Comedy, Reviews | Tags: Andrea Seller, Blue Peter, Comedy, Festival of the Spoken Nerd, Helen Arney, Kent Valentine, Matt Parker, Reviews, Steve Mould, the Bloomsbury Theatre Leave a comment »
On the day of the Wikipedia Blackout what better show to watch than Festival of the Spoken Nerd! Helen Arney, Steve Mould and Matt Parker delighted the audience with science, story-telling, songs and experiments. Missing fundamentals to astronomy to flame tubes were all delivered with a comic angle and a nerdy twist.
Audience interaction was used at its utmost as the audience were actually given the opportunity after each set to ask questions about it! Mould’s enthusiasm for all things physics (and even lego), Parker’s combination of dry and witty humour that worked very well in explaining some rather tricky mathematical topics and Arney’s melodic and highly impressive musical comedy talent that explored the world of animals to Ancient Greece made the show an absolute delight! The show was so fascinating that at times my review notes became somewhat lecture notes because it was so interesting that the facts and information being delivered on stage, through such an accessible intellectual and comedic medium, were too fascinating to ever forget!
With special guest performances from Kent Valentine, an engaging and lively story-teller whose dangerous experience of napalm certainly entertained the audience and Andrea Sella, Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at UCL performed some amazing experiments on stage, the kind you would only read about in text-books at school and the comedic flavour used to explain the science behind them made the experiments even more enjoyable!
Festival of the Spoken Nerd was like Blue Peter for adults meets every nerd’s dream of what a customised Youtube channel would be like…live! The finale was so dazzlingly awesome it’s worth buying a ticket just to see the musical-comedy magic with Vid Warren that bought the unimaginable into the realms of the real.
If ever there was a comedy show where you can completely geek out, laugh and learn it’s Festival of the Spoken Nerd!
Festival of the Spoken Nerd will be at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 2nd February 2012. Book tickets!
www.festivalofthespokennerd.com
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