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The Importance of Being Earnest, Tara Theatre
Oscar Wilde’s comedy of manners is rightly regarded as a classic, so we must give thanks for Ayesha Casley-Hayford and Kudzanayi Chiwawa coming along and giving The Importance of Being Earnest a new lease of life, with the backing of Two Gents Productions and Tara Arts. The commitment to present this material in a new…
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Arabian Nights, Hoxton Hall
This is the first time I have visited Hoxton Hall, one of the last remaining music halls in London, and it seems a very fitting venue for this economic production of Arabian Nights. Iris Theatre have made excellent use of puppets, masks and simple props to bring Nessah Muthy’s vision of these classic stories to…
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The Goon Show Tour – Press Launch
Thanks to an impressive line in comedy revivals, the Museum of Comedy, nestled at the top of New Oxford St in London, is the perfect place to launch a tour of the revered classic, The Goon Show. The Apollo Theatre Company have worked with Spike Milligan’s former manager Norma Farnes to select three of Milligan’s…
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Metta’s Little Mermaid – The Circus Sensation
To my shame, perhaps, I haven’t seen anything but comedy at the Underbelly’s South Bank location, and I certainly hadn’t seen any sort of circus in a while, so it was a real treat to see something a little different. Metta Theatre’s Poppy Burton-Morgan has taken the classic tale of The Little Mermaid and given…
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I am of Ireland, Old Red Lion Theatre
“I am of Ireland”, a new play from Seamus Finnegan, aims to explore what it is to be Irish in 2018. Perhaps the timing couldn’t be any more apt, with the Irish attempting to deal once again with a divisive political decision that was out of their control. Although the play tracks the lives of…
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Steptoe and Son, The Museum of Comedy
The Museum of Comedy is a small wonder in the centre of London, filling the niche that is light entertainment history with a modest, but fascinating collection. It also hosts small theatrical productions such as this revival of the classic sitcom from Hambleton Productions, starring Jeremy Smith as Albert and John Hewer as Harold. Galton…
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Greenwich Winter Festival Preview
Autumn. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Also the season where we start to worry about what we’re going to get our loved ones for Christmas, and wonder how we’re going to entertain our children now the weather is getting colder. Luckily for us, the people behind the Greenwich Winter Festival have an alternative to…
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Pageant, London Irish Centre
Pageant is a revival of a musical first performed off-Broadway in 1991, and it’s telling that this drag satire on the culture of women as decoration still feels biting 26 years later. The professional nature of this production (it was revived off-Broadway in 2014 initially) is obvious by the calibre of the performers, who are…
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Skin Deep, Camden Fringe
Covering the story of Erzsébet Báthory, allegedly one of Europe’s most prolific and powerful mass murderers, Skin Deep has an ambitious remit. We jump straight into sixteenth century Europe, watching Erzsébet grow up continually being denied the chance to train as a soldier like her brothers, much to her frustration, and her eventual marriage to…
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