THE EVENING NEWS

Laughs on a river wave

Edinburgh Festival Fringe

RODNEY BEWES plays the audiences like a fiddle in his own adaptation of Jerome K Jerome's classic story of three friend's trip up the Thames.

The legendary tales of how Harris got around 40 strangers lost in HamptonCourt Maze and how our heroes managed to collide with a river lock, so ruining a very delicately framed photograph, hold the audience in stitches for at least 90 of the 100 minutes.

Bewes plays the aughor recalling his exploits 20 years on and gives a performance bursting with life and vitality, which also reveals an obvious love for the text.

A definite highlight.

Gareth Rubin

THE PEOPLE

Fringe hit is a likely story

I SPENT a few days in Edinburgh this week catching up with all that's new at the Fringe Festival - and stumbled across a WONDERFUL show. Eye witnesses will tell you that I have never been seen to laugh as much as I did at a one-man adaptation of Three Men In A Boat, written and performed by, of all people, Rodney Bewes.

Yes, that's right; the dear old Likely Lad himself, older now and quite grey, but up there strutting his stuff in among the arty farts, to the manner born. If you live anywhere near by, do round up the family and go.

He's on until the 29th: