{"id":117529,"date":"2019-11-04T14:21:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/11\/04\/count-arthur-strong-review-fuzzy-logic-and-cosmic-nonsense\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T14:21:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:21:01","slug":"count-arthur-strong-review-fuzzy-logic-and-cosmic-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=117529","title":{"rendered":"Count Arthur Strong review \u2013 fuzzy logic and cosmic nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester Square theatre, LondonAt every turn, the confused \u2018astronomer-in-chief\u2019 gives us something to marvel at \u2013 from crap ventriloquism to the films of \u2018Dustbin Hoffman\u2019At least in the colloquial sense, Count Arthur Strong has always been a space cadet \u2013 floating as far from reality as ever Illya Kuryakin did from Earth\u2019s sugar-free gum. If that doesn\u2019t make the slightest sense, the Count\u2019s fuzzy logic \u2013 abundantly on display in this new show about the cosmos \u2013 must be catching. Is There Anybody Out There? is another wonderful set from Steve Delaney as the malaproping \u201cnutty old bloke\u201d, now bidding to supplant Brian Cox (or should that be George Formby?) as the nation\u2019s astronomer-in-chief. One doubts the BBC\u2019s \u201cdirector-colonel\u201d will take the bait, but there\u2019s no question that this is another stellar performance by the confused Count.If there is a criticism you could level at Delaney\u2019s shows \u2013 beyond the backhanded compliment that they can be as excruciating as they are entertaining \u2013 it\u2019s that they work to a familiar formula. The Count will struggle to perform unlikely songs: tonight, he opens with Starman by \u201cDavid Essex from Mutiny on the \u2026 Buses!\u201d There\u2019ll be vaudevillian physical comedy, like the business with the spectacles in his pockets. His crap ventriloquism will feature, as per a chat with Captain Sulky, the first monkey in space, which descends into a sub-Planet of the Apes interspecies bun fight. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2019\/nov\/04\/count-arthur-strong-review-leicester-square-theatre-london\" target=\"_blank\">Count Arthur Strong review \u2013 fuzzy logic and cosmic nonsense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leicester Square theatre, LondonAt every turn, the confused \u2018astronomer-in-chief\u2019 gives us something to marvel at \u2013 from crap ventriloquism to the films of \u2018Dustbin Hoffman\u2019At least in the colloquial sense, Count Arthur Strong has always been a space cadet \u2013 floating as far from reality as ever Illya Kuryakin did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}