Ancient Greece. A time of division and strife. Only one person can harness the chaos to bring unity and joy to the world.
Garry Starr... The Myth... The Legend... returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe with an hour of award-winning, unpredictable and exuberant physical comedy for anyone and everyone with a heart, soul, and funny bone. No prior knowledge of the classics required.
Greece Lightning sees the overzealous idiot attempt to perform all of Greek mythology in less than 60 minutes in order to save his Hellenic homeland from economic ruin.
Never before has Medusa been looser, Achilles more sillies or Uranus so heinous.
Having single-handedly saved the performing arts in 2018 with his multi-award-winning debut show, comic wunderkind Garry returns with another anarchic masterclass not to be mythed.
Damien Warren-Smith, the performer behind Garry Starr, has said: 'Greece Lightning is Garry scaling his own comedic Mount Olympus and no one is being left behind. This is Garry at his most outgoing, his most engaging, his most ridiculous and I can't wait for UK audiences to join him on his Herculean quest to bring mirth where there was once only myth.'
★★★★½ "Utter chaos - in the best way possible"
- Sydney Morning Herald
★★★★½ “One of the most riotous hours of the festival”
- Brisbane Times
★★★★ “Uproariously silly - he threads us through the labyrinth with a lunatic’s charm”
- Time Out
★★★★ “Garry Starr’s Herculean attempt to cover the entirety of Classical Greek history in an hour is a laugh a minute”
- The Advertiser
★★★★★ "Insanely clever and gloriously stupid. I laughed so hard that tears and snot ran down my face"
- Theatre Thoughts
★★★★★ “Uncomfortably brilliant!”
- See Do Eat Review
★★★★★ "Charms and delights the audience at every opportunity"
- IN Daily
★★★★★ "This weirdly wonderful show will have you in fits"
- What’s On Adelaide
★★★★★ "Minute by minute chaotic hilarity”
- Hi Fi Way
★★★★★ “I have not laughed so hard in a very long time”
- GLAM Adelaide
Best Comedy, Greater Manchester Fringe 2018
Tour Ready Award, Adelaide Fringe 2018
Best Newcomer Nominee, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018
Golden Gibbo Nominee, Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2018
Best Comedy Nominee, Brighton Fringe 2018
Emerging Artist Nominee, Adelaide Fringe 2018