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  • London Brighton Festival - Reviews from the Audience

    Comments and Reviews from the Audience Ageing Is Amazing, Laughing Horse @ The Quadrant THREE WEEKS: The mighty Ms Miller: ThreeWeeks Editors’ Award winning Lynn Ruth Miller has been talking to our friends at The Argus, and has told them how she only really took to the stage four years ago after going to comedy school in the US. On her free show ‘Ageing Is Amazing’ she says: “I am living my dream. The point is that you are only as old as you feel. It’s such a cliché but it’s the truth. The show was not written with a message but people leave it crying because they are so touched. The big secret and the key to everything I do is that I am not amazing. I’m just like you. Instead of saying ‘all my life I wanted to be a singer’, I got up there and sang”. ~Rachel Pegg

  • London Online Times Article, July 2008

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May 7, 2009 - Festival Previews - “10 Questions: An Interview with Lynn Ruth Miller”

May 2009 Review - Brighton Fringe “Lynn Ruth Miller: Ageing Is Amazing Redux”

EXTRA! EXTRA! “From the Edinburgh Fringe Festival”

A.E. Watterson, C Cubed
22nd August 2006

"When 72-year old Lynn Ruth Miller peeked out from behind the curtain, the twin discs of her hazel eyes and over-sized pearl earrings shining under the stage lights, I started to smile and didn’t stop for a good few hours later. To say ‘Farewell to the Tooth Fairy’ has the feel-good factor would be like saying that Ulysses is a book about a man called Leopold. This woman is a quite extraordinary creature, moving around the stage as she tells a series of ten stories about her life. A writer for over forty years, she has selected the stories she tells here from her columns, ‘Thoughts while walking the dog’ for the Pacifica Tribune. She is undoubtedly one of the most natural storytellers I have ever come across, and her enthusiasm for her morality tales is life affirming. Lynn Ruth begins her stories with her childhood experiences of Judaism and American life and ends with a tale about her Aunt’s canary, knocked out by Jack Daniel’s and revived by a spell in the oven, by way of her first Valentine’s bouquet and a dreamy New Year’s Eve date ruined by her vicious dog, and much, much more. She tells them in a tiny converted church on The Royal Mile, with few props; a cerise feather boa, fake flowers, stuffed toys. It was a joy to listen to her, her enthusiasm for the simplicities and possibilities of life is infectious. Her stories are simple, but don’t be fooled, there’s magic and a moral in every one. She explores notions of what it is to be an American, immigration, Judaism, beauty myths, all with an exuberant sense of humour. With no eye to hyperbole, her interest in the everyday is akin to Joyce’s. Her oratory style is fast and fluid, unrelenting even. In fact, she was so good that I have to resort to clichés (for clichés are only clichés because they are true), I haven’t laughed so much in ages! The audience hung on every word and the applause of the twenty-odd people worthy of double that number. As I left, I was thanked by Lynn Ruth for laughing at all the right times but, Lynn Ruth it would have been hard not to. Everyone should see this play, in fact it should be made available on the NHS! Lynn Ruth Miller is a tiny, hilarious, one-woman phenomenon and Farewell to the Tooth Fairy is one of my highlights of this year’s Fringe Festival. If you have a chance to see this play, you really must take it; you owe it to your laughter lines!"

 

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"Lynn Ruth Miller doesn’t hold back. If you’ve ever looked ahead and wondered what’s it going to be like, you’re about to get all your questions answered. Lynn Ruth will have you bent in half with her brutally honest observations. Fresh, revealing, and with brilliant comedic timing, Lynn Ruth Miller will entertain you in a well rounded show. Or maybe something more personal.The first time I heard Lynn Ruth my face ached. It was a 20 minute set and i couldn’t stop smiling and laughing. That hard kind of smiling and laughing that actually hurts. When I met her off stage I found her to be just as funny and entertaining. She’s one of those rare gems that you don’t find too often in life. How lucky for us."

Ty McKenzie
Producer of Chick Wit

 

"Ms. Miller is a Joan Rivers without the swearing. Her magical blend of songs, repartee and off the cuff antic holds any crowd in the palm of her hands. Lynn Ruth Miller is a force to be reckoned with."

Joy
Rainbow Colored Productions