The Delightful Sausage @ Just the Tonic, The Caves
Joyfully surreal adventure into the dark web
Cold Hard Cache is delightfully silly. After all, one of the duo wears a hot dog costume for the duration of the show, so you have to ask, How can this not be brilliant?
It's a jam-packed hour of nonsense which rips apart classically awful informative presentations in an inventive and increasingly hysterical way. Each line has an offbeat zing, constantly making the audience wheeze with laughter. Chris Cantrill and Amy Gledhill make the perfect partnership – one plays it densely deadpan, the other giddily moronic. They both ooze lovable charm as we journey with them across the choppy waters of internet safety, through swamps of yeast and into the murky recesses of the dark web.
Gledhill is adept at physicality and can cue hysterics with a simple look, while Cantrill excels when he’s persuading you that the dumb spiel to fall from his mouth is 100% truth. The dynamic between the two is magical.
Around the two-thirds mark the quality slips a little, but it’s not enough to deter an audience already swept up by the absurdity of it all – everyone one here has met their new favourite double act.