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This debut full-length from the Yorkshire comic with the posh voice (“people assume I can afford to pay for things, and I really can’t”) is currently being turned into a series for Radio 4, and quite right too. It is the story of the three overlooked fathers of rocket science (including a Transylvanian Nazi-turned-Disney TV presenter called Hermann Oberth – “puts evil John Lesley in perspective doesn’t it”) and Keen’s own childhood fascination with space. And it’s told via face masks, shadow puppetry (“I’m sure this is how Professor Hawkins would do his lectures… if things weren’t as they are”) and a good deal of surreal but solid fact. Keen shares Stewart Lee’s speech rhythms and Josie Long’s DIY sweetness. But her girlish excitement about typical boy topics (her latest show is about Arctic exploration) is a real USP. As, of course, is her climactic appearance as ‘the personification of thrust’.
Temple Bar, 3 May
4/5
Bella Todd

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