Alice Tovey’s latest show,
Doggo, is an ode to, well, I’m sure you can guess.
Alice Tovey and Doggo.
With a soaring voice that sees her holding notes long enough to leave the audience short of breath, Tovey’s cabaret prowess takes centre stage alongside bouts of stand-up, sketch and a pinch of burlesque.
While Tovey weaves in some social and political commentary, the core subject matter of man’s best friend is insufficient for her talents – with
Doggo never quite reaching the heights of her previous
Garbage Monster or
Mansplaining.
Tovey is at her best making piercing remarks on sexualisation and misogyny, mental health and in one instance, an absolutely scathing one-line takedown of Leonardo DiCaprio.
The Filthy, the Funny, the Fucking Fabulous
Reuben
An evening with The obscenely intelligent, beautifully filthy, and rib-crackingly funny cabaret superstar Reuben Kaye is the only way to bring in 2021. He spoke with
the Echo ahead of his NYE show at the Bruns Picture House.
Reuben, how was 2020 for you?
2020? No, 2020 was fine for me (reaches for cask wine and thorazine). Honestly? 2020 was rougher than driving a tractor through a toddler’s birthday party. But what else is gonna bind us together than one massive shared trauma… that’s what my therapist says, but also she lives on a houseboat so I don’t know if I can really trust my mental health to someone with a chemical toilet.