REVIEWS OF POLAROID SUITCASE (2003)

"a truly remarkable character creation… by the end, the audience can only stand up and worship"
Edinburgh Evening News*****

"enough to make you cry with laughter"
Telegraph

"comic magic… perfect… brilliant"
Times*****

"I haven't laughed so much at the Fringe in years"
Scotsman****

"lovingly-crafted… disciplined character comedy"
Metro*****

"a spoof songwriting skill worthy of Neil Innes… A cult is born"
Chortle****

"hilarious… a deluded monster so dazzlingly funny it's hard to believe he's not been invented before"
Evening Standard


REVIEWS OF FACE ACADEMY (2004)

"brilliantly observed… inspiring… Gary Le Strange will have a number one hit"
Scotsman****

"hugely enjoyable… one of the most vital performances in town"
Times

"consistently thrilling… Le Strange is doing essentially the same thing as The Darkness, except that he gets to have more fun with ideas"
Metro****

"such a finely-honed creation that it's easy to forget he's a fictional character… a slick and sensitive performance… if you don't love it you just don't get it"
Fest*****

"It is not easy to make comedy that feels original… Waen Shepherd's show is a rare triumph… an inspired show, the like of which could scarce be imitated"
The Stage

"wonderfully funny"
Telegraph

"spot-on"
Guardian****

"fantastically funny and inventive… superb"
Irish Times


REVIEWS OF BEEF SCARECROW (2006)

"terrific and very funny... highly recommended to anyone who either loves or loathes prog-rock… (Le Strange is) a beautifully wrought, desperate, comic character, created and performed by 2003 Perrier best-newcomer Waen Shepherd: his songs are extensions of this, as well as being - this particular year - musically shrewd prickings of the pomposity of art- and prog-rock… the show is a cracker. I've seen it twice…"
Mark Monahan, Telegraph

"disturbingly credible… if Le Strange weren't so unflaggingly entertaining, he could be mistaken for a wayward prog rocker turfed out of the band for going daft and now reduced to touring village halls to cadres of devotees, convinced of his genius - this character is that well observed and executed… flawlessly performed… bewilderingly esoteric… if your sympathy sides with the off-the-map underdog, you'll certainly savour this bit of beef"
Metro ****

"a show which is as far removed from conventional comedy as is possible… Beef Scarecrow will not be to everyone's tastes but if you like your humour with imaginary wolves and a can of Whiskas then you may be in for a treat"
Edinburgh Evening News

"I suppose I shouldn't mention music in a books blog, but as Gary Le Strange was performing in the Literary Arena, I feel I'm allowed to pay homage to his hilarious electro-rock hit about his favourite cartoon character, "Michael the Swan", who all the children want to "be their daddy", despite his "beard of bread". By the time Le Strange reached the "Hosanna in Excelsis" coda, I was on the floor, weeping."
Tom Gatti, Times (reviewing Gary at the Latitude Festival)

"baffling, grandiloquent crap"
Julia Chamberlain, Chortle *