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We here at one4review have been Lucy Porter fans for many years now as regular visitors to our site will already know, so it was with keen anticipation that I attended her Fringe 2009 offering in the massive space that is Pleasance Beyond.

In keeping with her show title the minimalist set was mostly gold based, even the pre show music all featured songs that had Gold in their titles.

The crowd warmly welcomed to the stage, well how can you not like Lucy, she is a very funny lady and is so nice. Definite AWW factor here.

So off we went, traveling on the journey she took us from the concept of her show, family stories, Gold, Alchemy, Dubai, rappers, Gold Rushes are all topics that are covered during this extravaganza.

Lucy chats with her audience, feeds 24 carat gold to a member of the front row, has a prize competition with real golden prizes and tries her hand at alchemy live on stage.

As always with Ms Porter’s show the subject mater is well researched, well written and performed by an excellent comedian.

As always the tickets for her shows are flying out of the door so if you don’t want to be the fool to miss out, get your ticket while there may still be some available.

Lucy Porter - Fool's Gold

Company: - Lucy Porter

Venue: - Pleasance Beyond  V 33

Dates: - 5 to 31 August 2009 ( not 12,19 )

Times: - 20.20 to 21.20

Fringe Programme Page: - p73   (C29)