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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…
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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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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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Sarah Kendall – One-Seventeen , Soho Theatre
Review by Jake Laverde After having worked the UK stand up circuit over 18 years, London based Australian comic Sarah Kendall has been making a name for herself the past few years as a gifted storyteller. Her 3 previous shows had her spinning anecdotes of growing up in suburban Australia (with more than a pinch…
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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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Suckers, Theatre N16
Thick and Thin’s debut Brains showed a lot of promise as a satire of privatised healthcare and their new effort, Suckers is very similar except instead of zombies and privatisation we get vampires and politics. There were issues I was willing to forgive in Brains that I can’t in their second show. The idea once again…
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Pleasance announce Edinburgh Fringe 2017 line up
On Thursday, 20th April Pleasance Theatre Trust announces 132 more shows on sale with an array of exciting newcomers and Festival favourites highlighting the pages of Edinburgh Fringe 2017 programme. The Comedy programme welcomes back to the Pleasance Great British Bake Off host and a celebrated comedian Sue Perkins, Live at the Apollo and Frankie…
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Britney, Vaults Theatre
After a sell-out run at the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Festival Britney comes to London as the part of the Vaults Festival. It is a sketch show with a difference, all the sketchs are about Britney, not Spears though her music features heavily, but Charly Clive’s brain tumour. It is odd subject for comedy yet Clive…
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West End Production of Stepping Out Casting Update
Natalie Casey will join the previously announced Amanda Holden, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Tamzin Outhwaite and Nicola Stephenson in heart-warming comedy Stepping Out when it opens in London this Spring. Directed by Maria Friedman, this brand new staging of Richard Harris‘s award-winning play which toured UK venues last year, will open at West End’s Vaudeville Theatre with…
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