Fresh from The National Arts Festival, Two of Cape Town’s renowned comedians (Westley Cockrell and Stuart Cairns) have taken a new twist on comedy, where two whimsical characters take you on an explorative journey to becoming standup comedians. Hilarious, explorative, energetic. Those are just some of the words used (by critics) to describe Cairns’ and Cockrell’s The Plot Hole directed by Rob van Vuuren. 

Using a creatively unique story-telling method and creative use of props the characters expose the embarrassing and hysterical scenarios which they’ve had to overcome. 

“Instead of quitting though, they transformed their trials and tribulations into one of the funniest stories you will ever hear.” 

-By Cassy Van Eden for www.mediaupdate.co.za 

Audience Responses

It had plot holes.

While it was an interesting 'plot' and the actors were enjoying themselves, it was just not clever or funny enough.

The show was completely incompatible with my sense of humour, alas, and didn't seem particularly well prepared. I thought the idea of finding plot holes in fairy tales was a good one, but it wasn't developed beyond a few unconnected one-liners - the high level of improvisation fell somewhat flat. I got the impression that their scene depicting how they came up with the idea was how it actually happened - perhaps I would have enjoyed it more had I been in that same state of mind.

Have sent seperate email

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For a comedy show, it lacked a lot of structure. The description on your site was a bit misleading as it was just two comedians doing random improved comedy with a little dvd menu as a gimmick to get them to move forward. The jokes were hit and miss, but I feel comedy is so subjective I won't fault them for that. What I mainly look at is the concept of Alexander Bar as a platform for new talent, playwrights and people performing interesting stories. The Plothole would suit more in a bar for a 15 minute stand up sketch. I love comedy, and stand up, but this really didn't have much thought or flow or story about it.