Phillip Andrew Bennett Low

In my pre-Fringe promotion for this show, I wrote the following:

"Mahmoud Hakima stormed onto the storytelling scene with Two Bowls of Cereal and Some Bacon, an impressive initial effort that was both heartfelt and well-structured. With that show, he established himself as someone with at least one great story to tell - the question of whether or not he's go staying power as a storyteller may be answered by this one."

That question has been answered -- the man is definitely a storyteller, at least insofar as he has more than one story to tell.

This was a show that put me in mind, oddly enough, of two previous ones that I'd seen. (Another one of the things that I love about Fringe -- when seeing so many shows, in such a compressed space, patterns become increasingly more evident.) Thematically, this could be the sister show to Entwined -- it, too, is about the hilarious horror of unrequited love -- here, pushed to a ludicrous extreme.

I tour occasionally, and whenever I come to a new city I make an effort to look up the local storytelling scene.

I saw another reviewer compare Jimmy Hogg to Bill Maher, and I have to say that it's a comparison that sprung to my mind, as well -- he springs to the stage, decked out in a suit, and presents himself as a fast-talking stand-up skeptic.