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# DUSTY LIMITS – POST MORTEM: Emporium Theatre: Review
- URL: https://www.scenemag.co.uk/dusty-limits-post-mortem-emporium-theatre-review/
- Published: 2013-07-24T22:28:11.000Z
- Updated: 2013-07-24T22:29:20.000Z
- Description: Dusty’s show, which clocks in at just over an hour, is a short and (bitter)sweet look at life’s big full stop. An obit junkie – Mr Limits claims to have them beamed directly to his Kindle – he begins the evening fretting about how the newsprint summation of his life will read. His rumination on […]
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- Tags: Arts, Music, News, Theatre

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**Dusty’s show, which clocks in at just over an hour**, is a short and (bitter)sweet look at life’s big full stop. An obit junkie – Mr Limits claims to have them beamed directly to his Kindle – he begins the evening fretting about how the newsprint summation of his life will read. His rumination on death, and the bit leading up to it we call ‘*life*‘, takes in some great songs, some comedy, a bit of politics and an update of **Roger Hargreaves’** *Mr Greedy*.

**Dusty Limits** has an impressive vocal range, whether performing Weimar Republic songs (a condition of his arts funding, we’re told), American early 20th century spirituals, **Joni Mitchell**, **Bowie** or his own satirical confections. A man who has clearly lived a suitably bohemian life, he movingly sings his favourite love song, **Sondheim’s** *Losing My Mind*, to a bottle of vodka.

It’s an amiable, always entertaining, sixty minutes. As **Dusty Limits** admits he’s occasionally preaching to the converted – though targets like the Catholic church, **Bono** and **Michael McIntyre** can feel a little easy. And his version of **Nina Simone’s** *Sinnerman* is so powerful that it’s a shame half way through he injects some not particularly successful humour into it (God speaking in the stock ‘*accountant*‘ voice).

On the whole the show is a successful example of the New Cabaret. Though in future hopefully his jaundiced look will take in aspects of modern-day homosexuality as well as religion, and maybe he’ll make good on his promise to be less stand-up comedy and more ‘*sit down misery*‘.

Continues at the Emporium Theatre, London Road, until Thursday, July 25.

[For more tickets and information click here.](http://emporiumbrighton.com/dusty-limits-post-mortem?ref=scenemag.co.uk)