Author: Alex Finch

  • Re-Animator The Bloody Musical, The Drayton Arms

    There’s a trailer for an American version of Re-Animator The Musical that features a large cast, impressive songs and a heavy dose of blood and gore that makes it look like it’s a delight, at least if you’re fond of musical parodies of daft comedy horror films. As it goes they’re one of my favourite…

  • Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say – Online

    Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say – Online

    “Eye Say, Eye Say, Eye Say” brought together thirteen visually impaired comedians all to perform live on Saturday evening, which they did either in person at Goodenough College in London or via Zoom. The audience was also a similar mixture too, with some comedians present in the room to provide laughter, but the rest of…

  • Mr Henry Moss – Quadruple Thre4t, Vault Festival

    Mr Henry Moss – Quadruple Thre4t, Vault Festival

    A one man show which is a mix of music, cabaret and comedy, Henry Moss’s Quadruple Thre4t sees the Australian performer take on a number of characters as he explores the nature of fame, the way many become obsessed by it, and how they’re desperate to remain in the limelight even if it is at…

  • F**k Freud, Tristan Bates Theatre

    F**k Freud, Tristan Bates Theatre

    Leone is not a happy man in the slightest, as he’s twenty five and an unemployed actor, and unable to get his break in an industry that only wants to cast him as an Italian stereotype. He’s also suddenly realised that he’s no longer in love with his girlfriend Sarah and struggling with his place…

  • Cinderella, The Vaults Theatre

    Cinderella, The Vaults Theatre

    When anyone of a certain age hears the words “Adult Pantomime” it sends a shiver down their spine as they have flashbacks to adverts for horribly sexist Jim Davidson productions like Sinderella and Boobs In The Woods, the former of which is on youtube and if you can make it past the five minute mark…

  • 2100: A Space Novelty, The Cockpit

    2100: A Space Novelty, The Cockpit

    After a horrendous nuclear explosion on our beloved world, NASA astronaut James is the last man on Earth, albeit 253 miles above it as he’s living on the International Space Station. With only a computer for company, he’s running out of hope that anyone might have survived on the planet below, and so decides to…

  • Typical, Soho Theatre

    Typical, Soho Theatre

    As we entered the Soho Theatre’s upstairs room this evening Richard Blackwood was laying down without moving on a raised hard surface, and stayed there for a good ten minutes plus as the audience slowly filtered in. But the moment the lights went down he leapt up and turned in an astonishing performance, a burst…

  • Villain, Interrupted – Etcetera Theatre

    Villain, Interrupted – Etcetera Theatre

    Ever since I was a young child I’d been a huge fan superheroes, and supervillains too, so that’s been almost forty years of reading and watching them. I’ve enjoyed the majority of the Marvel movies and even some of the DC ones too, well, you know, Wonder Woman and Shazam anyhow, but just last night…

  • Louisa Keight – Jinkies, The Camden Head

    Louisa Keight – Jinkies, The Camden Head

    Louisa Keight’s Jinkies is a one woman sketch show which is so good and remarkably varied that it suggests that Keight deserves to make it big, and on to our tv screens, as soon as possible. It’s not just the wealth of ideas that impress as she sings, dances, and takes on a variety of…