Southbank Centre's Queen Elizabeth Hall
Title: THE UMBILICAL BROTHERS: Don't Explain
Subtitle: aka 'Thwak!'
6 & 7 April 2012
These Perrier nominees bring you a classic two-man show of stand-up double-act interplay, rubber-limbed physical foolishness and Tarantino-cartoon violence, accompanied by gob-smackingly realistic, vocal sound-effects of everything from underwater horse racing to a martial arts battle with a fly.
In this show, he who holds the microphone controls the universe. The only problem is, there is only one mic. Don't Explain brings both physical and vocal mayhem to your brains through the medium of your inner child.
From Edinburgh to the Sydney Opera House, from Tokyo to Stockholm, audiences have laughed like idiots at this acclaimed performance, as Shane and Dave use the entire comedy spectrum in their signature show.
In its incarnation as 'Thwak!', the show ran for a year Off-Broadway in New York, and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Most Unique Theatrical Entertainment. This is its first return to London since a critically acclaimed run (as 'Thwak!') in 2005.
'Over the course of 90 insanely inventive minutes, they both exceed and subvert our expectations of what two wiry men can do with a bare stage and a microphone.'(Time Out)
'If you thought Lee Evans was the last word in physical humour, Collins and Dundas raise the stakes a hundredfold.' (The Times)
Recommended for ages 13 and over.