The Ballad of Backbone Joe | Comedy review

Pleasance Courtyard, EdinburghBackbone Joe is a bare-knuckle fighter in outback Australia, who fights in the local abattoir for local butcher and promoter Messy Dimes Dan. Detective Von Trapp is summoned to town by a femme fatale with a message that may explain the recent death of Joe's wife.Suitcase Royale are the band-cum-theatre trio telling the story, ramshackle purveyors of dirty blues and stoopid comedy noir, on a set made from rubbish reclaimed from the streets. If Tom Waits and the Migh...

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