review II - electric boogaloo muuuuch better!!!

http://www.thestage.co.uk/edinburgh/reviews/review.php/3618


Urgent and Confidential - Dean Cameron's Nigerian Spam Scam Scam
Let's not mince words here, Cameron has created an absolutely brilliant show.

First stroke of genius is the concept. Cameron responded to those
emails written IN CAPITAL LETTERS purporting to be from some
dispossessed Nigerian society type desperate for you to lend them a
large amount of money so that they, in turn, can rescue an even larger
amount of their money that has been confiscated. In return you will
receive a healthy percentage of this bigger amount of money.

On receiving this, Cameron adopted the disguise of a batty, ultra-camp
American real estate dealer with more money than sense and a couple of
pampered pussycats and struck up a correspondence. The show consists
almost entirely of this correspondence being narrated.

And that is where the second stroke of genius comes in. The show is a
masterclass in comedy writing. Cameron's character is unbelievably
insane but not to the Nigerian scam master who responds with the
beautifully deadpan nature of the perfect stooge. Isaacs plays the
various Nigerian characters - the third stroke of genius being the
presentation of this Fringe gem.

Jeremy Austin
  ¶ 12:33 PM