@ Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh until Sunday 30 August @ 18:20 (not 18)
Luke Wright will be having a busy Fringe, as he has two shows on at this years festival. He is making his theatre debut with What I Learned From Johnny Bevan at Summerhall. When that show finishes the performance poet will be making a trip across Edinburgh to perform his comedy spoken word set – Luke Wright: Stay-at-Home Dandy at the Underbelly Cowgate.
The theme of the show is fatherhood and the responsibilities of having a child while earning a living as a poet who likes to wear eyeliner, skinny jeans and waistcoats (complete with pocket watch and chain). Luke is an amazing performer and an excellent writer. He opens with the title poem of the show and delivers the verses like a runaway train. The show follows a typical format with Wright performing comedic and touching poems about living in a small rural town in a England and the people he meets on the school run. The poems are never short of laughs and paint a portrait of a middle class rural England.
Stay at Home Dandy is an hour of finely crafted and outrageous poetry. Luke Wright is a Fringe regular and his passion for Edinburgh and the Festival is obvious. Performing two shows back to back across the city may be an arduous task for most, but not for Luke. He is clearly a poet who loves to perform and entertain a crowd and the audience at Stay-at-Home Dandy were definitely entertained.