Tony Law @ The Stand

Tony Law is tall and suave and with a slick quiff he’s rocking the 50s throwback cool. So it comes as a surprise when he bounds onstage dressed in a skin-tight black bodysuit adorned at the collar with sparkly hairclips.

Law’s entrance sets the tone for a show that is charming and bizarre in equal measure. Straightforward anecdotes quickly deviate into surreal territory as
he opts for meandering inventiveness over narrative coherence. Somewhere in the weirdness, he finds himself impersonating a menagerie of human and animal characters and bringing to life several historical eras, even offering the odd damning political insight on the side.

As the show progresses Law becomes commentator too, analysing the laughs and critiquing his own performance. In less experienced hands, this could get tiresome but he’s clever enough with it to induce from the willing audience a virtuous circle of hilarity.

Like the Georgian-style drawing room it is set in, you don’t need to follow the show's logic to marvel and be thankful.