Comedy: The Pleasance Mural, Edinburgh - Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre

There’s a shedload of clips of the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre on YouTube. Go look ‘em up. This is just like that, but six-to-ten times longer, and live, with Kev Sutherland responding to the crowd (and playing them well, to boot). And quoted the show the entire taxi-journey home.

This, in turn, led the Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre to deal extremely effectively with the by now loudly nattering patrons.

Where did you learn to whisper? In a fucking helicopter? Shut the fuck up!

All this delivered by a mad-eyed sock puppet. Nevertheless, the show went on (are you listening from your anal traction, Banana Men?) and the socks were consummate professionals, delivering some riotously crude songs about colostomies and Scotland, the most surreal version of Stand By Your Man ever heard and a potted history of this country guaranteed to burst the bubbles of any egomaniacs in the audience.

See a circular sock knitting machine being used to knit a sock.

The Plot

Raleigh introduces Elizabeth, the wittiest, wisest and most unforgiving of all English Queens. Walter’s in love with Elizabeth, the spiritual embodiment of England.

But will he end up in her bed, or will he lose his head? Potatoes, tobacco, Elizabethan dance, cross-dressing, xenophobia and laughs galore from the team behind Johnson And Boswell: Late But Live, which played to critical acclaim at the Traverse Theatre during the 2007 Edinburgh festival.

Stewart Lee was voted the 41st best stand-up ever in a recent Channel 4 poll. As well as various TV and radio credits both with comedy partner Richard Herring and in his own right, Lee regularly works in the theatre, including with Johnny Vegas on the play Interiors for Manchester International Festival.