Laney and I went to see The Flying Karamazov Brothers (FKB) tonight at the Vaudeville Theatre. Once again I didn’t really know what I had booked us in for but I was quite pleased to find that we had a very enjoyable night. In short The FKB are a comedic juggling group. The show was witty and funny and included jokes which showed tailoring to the audience, namely English culture. The juggling required incredible co-ordination and the brothers also demonstrated considerable musical skills with the piano, trombone, tuba, alto sax, guitar and recorder all making an appearance – there was one particular set which had each other playing someone else’s instrument whilst keeping balls in the air! In fact, quite a few of the acts demonstrated the link between the rhythm of music and the rhythm of juggling. They even juggled dry ice and a cava (which eventually exploded.) Not every set was a hit, I mean there was this scene where the boys all donned ballet costumes and flitted around on stage. Not sure what this was about.There was also crowd interaction with audience members being invited to submit items for juggling, with the finale involving one lady getting up stage to have flaming items juggled past her.

Overall just the kind of light-hearted entertainment that we were looking for.