“The UK’s lowest energy double act,” they call themselves. Which makes the wild west, with its attendant vocal drawl, suitable territory for Will Rowland and Eddy Hare’s fringe debut. Cowboys, directed by current Edinburgh comedy award champ Jordan Brookes, no less, finds the guitar-totin’ comics outlawin’ across the plains to blow up a railroad – or it would do, if Rowland didn’t keep interrupting to air his recent breakup grievances.
The dynamic could hardly be more familiar, as serious Hare tries with mounting frustration to deliver the show, and gadfly Rowland crashes it with real-world concerns. For old fringe hands, the storytelling mode is familiar, too, as Crizards celebrate the crapness of the effects (wrapping paper for quicksand; naff plastic dynamite sticks; meandering accents) that bring their old west one-dimensionally to life.
