Edinburgh Fringe: The Boy With Tape on His Face/ Barbershopera/ Tom Allen

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by Veronica LeeFriday, 20 August 2010

The Boy With Tape on His Face: Sam Wills's original and inventive sight gags

This is a show of such originality and inventiveness that I will struggle to convey just how much fun it is to watch a man perform sight gags and physical comedy for an hour - and who does indeed appear throughout with a strip of black gaffer tape over his mouth.

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