It Is Rocket Science!

Fresh-faced comic, Helen Keen has accomplished what science class educational videos always promised but never delivered; she has made learning fun. Only the most space-savvy of physics students will fail to be enlightened by It Is Rocket Science’s musings on the founding fathers of rocketry or the gravitational properties on an object in Earth’s orbit. Such high-minded subjects are helpfully illustrated by Keen’s use of shadow puppetry and some rather silly diagrams.

Yet Keen doesn’t indulge herself in lecturing for too long, she knows the audience came to see a comedy show and her jokes are apt and well-timed. A celebratory look at mankind’s first ventures into space and how they affected her life growing up in Britain, It Is Rocket Science! is a cheerful and almost family-friendly stand-up act that is refreshingly different.

There’s plenty of audience participation to be had and the tons of fun props prove Keen’s skilful knowledge of visual humour. However, the show may be a little too saccharine for some tastes, while at the same time containing a few too many swear-words to be appropriate for younger kids.

While there may be funnier shows at this year’s Fringe, none of them will tell you why NASA and the bad guys in Raiders of the Lost Ark are so disturbingly similar.

 

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