» Review of the week: Tim Key – Edinburgh preview

Comic poet Tim Key is a great deliverer. His surreal and, in many cases, sinister verses are amusing, but, his comic timing, explanations and justifications of the minutiae of his poems give them a uniquely humorous, improvised feel.
The eccentric highlights of this Edinburgh warm-up show included a poem about the culinary uses of dew, a film of office workers cutting up an eel and lists of animals that Key could fit inside, or not fit inside, with some assistance and equipment.
After recent appearances on Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe and a series of Radio 4 sketch shows, the two-times Perrier Award Winner is beginning to get some of the prominence his bizarre musings and quick wit deserve.
Upstairs At Three and Ten, 17 July
5/5
Ralph Miller






