Comedy review: Aindrias de Staic, Black Medicine, Edinburgh


Aindrias de Staic, Black Medicine (355) * * * *
This is an experience you will never forget. Aindrias is a state of mind. Aindrias is a trip to comedy before it had a microphone, an agent and desperate hopes of getting on Live at the Apollo. Aindrias is a reminder that comedy can be part of a culture and not just a way to your own TV series. Although Aindrais, he tells us, has been on TV. He is huge in the Gaelic speaking parts of Ireland.
And Aindrias himself, wild in eye and hair is the whiskey that gives it a kick. He “went legit'” in theatre in Dublin, he tells us, has spent a lot of time in Australia, has a great recipe for ecstasy in pill form and got a part in the West End.
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Hide AdBut he is back in a basement in Edinburgh with tales of Scratchbox Paddy, the Bun who died twice and the Horse Dance, all reeling along a bed of music. Grand craic.
Until 25 August.