Veronica Lee
- Journalist
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Review: Two Doors Down, BBC Two
This being sitcomland, nobody is allowed to be entirely normal.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 2nd April 2016Review: Jena Friedman, Soho Theatre
Jena Friedman has been doing some of this material in her club sets for a while, and the show itself debuted at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, so it was surprising that she referred to a crib sheet on the night I saw it.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 24th March 2016Isy Suttie review
Laidback comedy about finding The One.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 23rd February 2016Review: Reeves & Mortimer, Leicester De Montfort Hall
The duo make great efforts to give the material real freshness.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 5th February 2016Dave Gorman, Touring, review
The show starts brightly with Gorman unpicking the words of a children's song.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 27th January 2016Eddie Izzard, Palace Theatre, review
The mood changes as Izzard, unusually, delves into his personal history.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 22nd January 2016Review: Crashing, Channel 4
New flatshare comedy drama is a slow burn.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 19th January 2016Tracey Ullman's Show, BBC One review
Ullman has gathered a terrific pool of writing talent.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 12th January 2016Review: Anne Edmond, Soho Theatre
Happiness is a wonderful thing, but sadness has its own secret world.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 8th January 2016Sometimes the simplest things work best. Car Share is essentially a two-hander about fortysomethings John and Kayleigh; Peter Kay is grumpy singleton John, the manager of a Lancashire superstore, Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) one of his staff whose life, despite her ambition and hard work, seems to be going nowhere. Forced to share their daily commute by their employers, the two at first seemed ill matched, but through the six episodes a touching love story emerges - and the audience see long before them that John and Kayleigh are made for each other.
It was fantastic comedy too, with many of the harder laughs coming from the radio station Kayleigh insisted John's radio should be tuned to - Forever FM - with its atrocious local ads and a slew of Eighties hits they sang along to. There were also wry laughs from the contrast of John's world-weariness with Kayleigh lack of worldliness, not least when she was terribly confused that a man whose handle on a dating site was "Pussy Lover" was not fond of cats.... I initially had my doubts about the fantasy sequences, but theye were sparingly and well used. It's an exquisite piece of work - beautifully written by Paul Coleman and Tim Reid, with contributions from Gibson and Kay (who also directed) - a subtle, slow-burn romance that made viewers laugh and cry, and demanded to be watched again immediately to savour its worth.
Veronica Lee, The Arts Desk, 31st December 2015