This show is intended as an amusing take on the game show concept. Seven members of Danielfightscats take the stage at the Gryphon to demonstrate why we love or hate such a form of entertainment.

We meet a couple of co-hosts who introduce our game show competitors: two males and three females, all of whom seem up for the improvisation to follow.

I’m not sure why the show is included in the Naughty Bits section of the Fringe brochure, because there’s nothing naughty about it.  

What we get is a series of challenges that are meant to involve horror. They don’t – but it doesn’t really matter. There’s a horror quiz to start off with, where right answers are almost drowned out by our exuberant competitors.  

And here’s my chief criticism of the performance: general inaudibility due to its improvisational nature, plus somewhat sloppy diction. Or – and this is a real horror – is it just the New Zild accent?        

Much of the action is not so much the interaction of those onstage as their filmed selves reacting to horror situations. There’s an element of self-indulgence in a bunch of people absorbedly watching themselves on screen. Ah, but then, just another of the behaviours that characterise today’s world. 

Winning any of the challenges is obviously coveted, and fought over. The overall winner is as surprised as everybody else. 

It’s positively spooky. 

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