Paul T Davies reviews Accidental Avoidance Training Workshop: Intermediate at the Headgate Theatre as part of the Colchester Fringe Festival.
Accidental Avoidance Training Workshop: Intermediate.Headgate Theatre: Colchester Fringe Festival.4 Stars Colchester fringe Website An established Fringe Favourite, Ian Crawford’s Heath and Safety lectures are becoming something of a legend here at the Colchester Fringe Festival. We are trained, at an intermediate level, on how to deal with any unexpected hazards that we may encounter… unexpectedly. This is the exact opposite of death by PowerPoint, this lecture is fun, interactive, and wonderfully silly. However, you will know how to deal with a rampaging rhino, good to know as Colchester has a zoo, how to avoid an unidentified flying cutlery item, (UFCI), and, most informative of all, wheelie bin entrapment. The painful video shown does demonstrate how real this threat is! It’s wonderfully silly and a perfect tonic for our troubled times, with fun audience interaction and sing-along, and Ian, despite the potentially boring nature of health and safety, sends the subject up perfectly, and is a convivial host. A wonderful hour of fun, catch him if you can!
Paul is a playwright, director, actor, academic, (he has a PhD from the University of East Anglia), teacher and theatre reviewer! His plays include Living with Luke, (UK tour 2016), Play Something, (Edinburgh Festival Fringe/Drayton Arms Theatre, London 2018), , (2019), and now The Miner’s Crow, which won the inaugural Artist’s Pick of the Fringe Award at the first ever Colchester Fringe Festival 2021. In lockdown 2020 he created the audio series Isolation Alan, available on Youtube, and performed online in the Voice Box Festival. He is the founder member of Stage Write, a Colchester based theatre company, and his acting roles include Rupert in How We Love by Annette Brook, first performed at the Vaults Festival 2020 and revived at the Arcola and at Theatre Peckham in 2021. Follow: @stagewrite_
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