I went in to the show with not much of an idea of what I was going to see, and I left... pretty much feeling the same way.
Dr. Brown is an act that is based upon random acts and comedy, with not much else. The artist behind it, Phil... something or other, has come up with a character that is a wonderfully awkward person.
The show opened with Dr. Brown entering with a helmet on and a blindfold, through a door based in the middle of the audience and he proceeded to try and make his way to the stage, blind. This involved feeling his way to the direction of the performance space, and do fulfill such a task he had to feel everything. Everything. Some members in the audience had never been felt in such a way in their lives. Aside from breasts, crotches, asses being felt up a lot of the audience members lost much of their belongings with one gentleman having his bag rifled through, only to reveal an apple, which Dr. Brown decided to eat. This interaction, despite being hilarious went on for slightly too long and could have probably had a funnier impact had the timing been cleared up, but once he eventually got to the stage the show began, I think.
From the first ten minutes of the show, you could compare Dr. Brown's awkward personality to that of Mr. Bean and as the show progressed there were real moment of comedy genius from the interaction with the audience to the weak magic tricks.
This involved a clicking of the fingers and reaching behind a curtain, on first instance to reveal a pineapple. The theme of random appearing objects was sustained throughout the show with the addition of tables, chairs, tea sets, bananas, that were cut up and thrown into the audience.
A real moment of comic genius was when Dr. Brown tried making himself some tea. The spoon being used was a soup spoon and simply to big for the tea cup, so despite all his best efforts, he decided to pour some of the tea into the giant soup spoon, then revealing a smaller spoon from his pocket to mix the tea together in said large spoon.
While my description does not do it justice, the performance and the timing of it was supreme and this being a perfect example of how much potential this character has.
To get away from giving too much about the show up, we wouldn't want to ruin the horrific surprise that you would have. The show changes most nights with just some loose ideas to hang the show on.
While Dr. Brown was initially introduced to us as a blind man in a suit with a drivers helmet on, it ended as opposite as it possibly could have with the doctor changed to a window, half naked, dressed as a belly dancer with a blonde wig and with one ball of his scrotum hanging out of his underwear bearing the Queens face on them.
With a bit more structure and perhaps a story to the whole show, this could quite possibly be one of the most incredibly popular characters on British Television, but as it stands? It's simply a hilarious show that you have to enter with a very open mind. If Phil does decide to add some structure however, expect to see Dr. Brown as an internet and comedy sensation.
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