Line Up Comedy is a showcase for five young comics honing their craft. It's not always consistent, but each of these developing acts brought energy that carried them through the opening night of their 11-night Fringe run.
Megan McKay is the best of the bunch. Though relatively new to comedy, she already exhibits a strong command of delivery and, importantly, likability. Her set mixes gallows humour with workplace humour with pleasing results.
Other comics include Dick Wakefield, whose set-ending metaphor about Campbell's soup and depression demonstrates a comedian with promise, unafraid of probing darker territories. Frederich Jones' macabre nursery rhymes are hit-and-miss, but perhaps the beginning of a more fully-developed concept.
Events like this will always be a little raw and rough around the edges, but it will be rewarding to watch this group test their material over the course of their run – developing what works and discarding what doesn't.
