Why Is A Lettuce? – HAH at Edinburgh Fringe 2010
In August 2010, I done did a show at Edinburgh. Here’s the blurb thing for it, and a clip from the show…
In 2010, the world asks itself two questions:
1) Can we hope to save ourselves and our children from total ecological and financial disaster?
2) Why is a lettuce?
This show is named after question number 2).
Why Is A Lettuce? is the Fringe debut for H Anthony Hildebrand. It’s about telling the story of hunting for evil tyrant Robert Mugabe; about poems of unnecessary cruelty; about graphs, equations and diagrams, rendered incompetently; about electronic rhythm machines of a certain age; and about quite a lot of stupid jokes and ideas.
Hildebrand is a writer, comedian, musician and sometime poet. His work was once described as ‘stream of conscientiousness’, despite the phrase making little to no sense.
As host and organiser of the intimate, cool and somewhat chaotic show ‘An Event of Some Kind’, Hildebrand presides over a South London night of up and coming music and cutting edge comedy. And an audience art competition.
Why Is A Lettuce? is Hildebrand’s first full-length solo show. There’s a bit of satire, some surreal imagery, a lot of wordplay, and some deep-rooted cynicism. But mainly it’s relentlessly silly.
“H Anthony Hildebrand is, in no particular order: a dry-tempered man of endearing face; a comedian of most hilariously curved wittery; a poet of startling insight; and a trainee beekeeper. You should see this show.”
