Reviews

Award Winner for Best Comedy Show Brighton Fringe Festival 2009
Award Winner for Outstanding Theatre Brighton Fringe Festival 2008
Nominee for Best Male Performer Latest Awards 2009
BBC “Between the Ears” Radio 3 commission 2010

****** Argus ****** Latest 7 **** Broadway Baby *****Oxford Times
***** G Scene ***** Fringe Review **** Fringe Guru

“Bramwell’s search for the story behind his artefact takes the audience on a colourful tour around Britain that is never patronising or of guilty giving too much away. When narrating his wild experiences Bramwell has the control of a competent ringmaster. Quite excellent. A monologue that keeps you fascinated until the very end. Go and see the Haunted Moustache without further ado.”
Ashby Lennard, Broadway Baby

“A touching two-acter that never loses momentum or interest. Intelligent, witty, literary and well observed, the time flew. This is a five star show to watch more than once.”
Fringe Review

“One might worry about his penchants for hallucinogens and religious cults but whether you take the story at face value or not, Bramwell unquestionably tells a brilliant tale.”
James Hamilton, Latest 7 Magazine

‘David Bramwell’s show is, in its own quiet way, a search for the meaning of life and it seems he’s found it in the Sufi saying “stories are more important than bread”.

Along the way he encounters many eccentrics and bohemians including legendary Brighton figures such as Drako Zarhazar – model for Dali’s Crucifixion of Christ – and Genesis P Orridge, singer with Psychic TV. There are also a few educational detours where we learn about gnosticism, the spiritual importance of fractals and the purgative effects of South American hallucinogens.

Bramwell’s mixed with some colourful characters in his life, and he does them all full justice on stage. The reprise of his various attempts to contact the moustache’s (dead) owner are hilarious, tinged with just the right amount of outrage at the sundry false mediums he meets along the way.

Bramwell, aided and abetted by his new-found friends and by looking for clues strewn seemingly randomly through his day-to-day life, tries to find out the secret significance of the moustache. If William Burroughs had written The Da Vinci Code it would probably have ended up something like The Haunted Moustache.

I’m not normally given to summing up the complexities and subtleties of a show in something as vulgar as a star-rating guide. However, if it helps to get some more bums on seats: *****
Michael Hootman G-Scene Magazine