Will Hall, Leo Reich, Laura Cameron and Rufus McAlister’s hour-long sketch show Disposables was a delight (albeit an occasionally disorganised delight) from start to finish. The humour and talent of the four performers was made clear from the start, as well as their good connection as a group. Many of the sketches featured only a couple of the performers at a time, with each combination as good as the last.

The show’s overarching story of four friends fighting over ownership of a prizewinning photo was an entertaining aspect of the performance, which gave it direction and distinguished it from other sketch shows, without getting in the way of the point of it: the comedy.

"The whole show was truly without a flat moment"

Some highlights were a recurring scone-dilemma sketch (McAlister is particularly good at anguish), an anti-PC performance review and a bestial pregnancy. These were some of the stand-out sketches, but the whole show was truly without a flat moment. It had a dynamic mix of longer and very short sketches, each of which the performers were fully committed to and which kept the audience laughing throughout. Even technical issues were a source of entertainment, as they were dealt with charmingly, and aided by the musical interludes of pianist, Toby Marlow.

The employment of physical humour in Disposables was frequent, and always funny. The Ariel sketch and the airport pat-down dance being particularly memorable. Voices and accents were also used often to great effect, with Reich’s wartime wife character Margaret an audience favourite.

Picture perfect at Pembroke

The set, with its background of black and white photographs, was fairly minimal, but relevant to the show’s story, and fitting for the style of the show – it, like the performance, was well thought out, but loose and informal. While lighting and timings need to be worked on a little more, Disposables was on the whole a carefully put together show, and most importantly, genuinely funny and original.

If you were unable to see Disposables in Cambridge, I would unreservedly recommend catching it on Monday 27th March at Battersea Barge for a night of quality comedy, unafraid of both silliness and cynicism