My second one-man comedy show was called ‘Jim Bowes: Complaining’ – an investigation in to why I’d started complaining more. It ran for 27 consecutive nights at C Cubed on the Royal Mile in Edinburgh and there were also performances in London and at the Etcetera Theatre.
The Fringe Festival programme description for the show was:
Mild-mannered and amiable, Jim was not one to complain until last year’s Festival. No longer a pressure cooker of quiet annoyance, a newly liberated Bowes explores the art of the polite complaint.
Reviews
Jim Bowes: complaining review from The List (3 out of 5)
“Whether WMDs can be launched within 45 minutes may be debatable, but a far safer bet would be to spend that length of time in the company of Bowes. An affable and enthusiastic host, he guides us along the journey from polite to increasingly assertive complaining, explains the event that prompted the quest in the first place, and asks himself, and the audience, what this means on a grander scale.”
By Emma Newlands, 9th August 2007 issue 582
A weird quote relating to my London dates – I didn’t think my show went over anyones head, I’ll take it as a compliment.
