Category: Comedy
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The League of Gentlemen Live Again! at the O2 Arena review ****
The League of Gentlemen Live Again! O2 Arena London, 23rd September 2018 The Tourist really dislikes the O2 Arena. Awful sound, brutal lighting, terrible sightlines, cavernous, uncomfortable seats, no water, sh*te loos. Pretty much pointless choosing to “see” anything there. Still sometimes, as here, you have no choice. And this,…
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The End of the Pier at the Park Theatre review ****
The End of the Pier Park Theatre 200, 2nd August 2018 Comic gold is not universal. We all have a different take on what is funny. The casting of Les Dennis in Extras (S1 E4) as a washed up, needy TV star in a pantomime, whose young fiancee is copping…
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The Flight of the Conchords at the O2 Arena review ****
The Flight of the Conchords The O2 Arena, 20th June 2018 Father and Son Deana and Ian The Most Beautiful Girl (in the Room) Inner City Pressure Bowie Chips and Dips Albi The Racist Dragon 1353 (Woo a Lady) The Ballad of Stana Bus Driver’s Song Mutha’uckas / Hurt Feelings…
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Much Ado About Nothing at the Rose Kingston review ****
Much Ado About Nothing Rose Theatre Kingston, 20th April 2018 Come on fellow residents of the Royal Borough of Kingston and London Borough of Richmond – both upon Thames. Get your collective arses over to the Rose Theatre to see this new version of Much Ado About Nothing, celebrating the…
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Murder She Didn’t Write at the Leicester Square Theatre review ****
Murder She Didn’t Write, Degrees of Error, Something for the Weekend Leicester Square Theatre, 25th March 2018 Flushed with success from our previous outing to the LST for a bit of class improv, BD, LD and the Tourist slope off to see Degrees of Error and Something for the Weekend…
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Milton Jones “Is Out There” at Shanklin Theatre review ****
Milton Jones: Is Out There Shanklin Theatre, 16th February 2018 The sunniest place in Britain is Shanklin. Fact. Don’t be deceived by imposters on the South Coast claiming this accolade. It is Shanklin. And, as any fool knows, the Isle of Wight is a paradise on Earth. Beautiful scenery, fascinating…
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The Open House at the Print Room Coronet review ***
The Open House The Print Room Coronet, 27th January 2018 Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill, August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Sam Shepherd, Lillian Hellman. All succeeded at writing a Great American Play, or in some cases Plays, about dysfunctional families. In an entirely naturalistic way. It is the meat and…
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Daisy Pulls It Off at the Park Theatre review ***
Daisy Pulls It Off Park Theatre 200, 16th December 2017 Funny thing the memory. Even more curious is consciousness itself. It used to be that clever folk conceptualised consciousness as a kind of “theatre of the mind”. Apparently now the cutting edge of neuroscience, psychology and philosophy says this dualism…
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The Hound of the Baskervilles at Jermyn Street Theatre review ****
The Hound of the Baskervilles Jermyn Street Theatre, 10th December 2017 Everyone likes Sherlock Holmes right. And everyone can see that the stories are ripe for comic treatment. Indeed you have probably seen this done on numerous occasions. Even the amazing Cumberbatch/Freeman/Moffat/Gatiss Sherlock, which is regarded with reverence in the…
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Rules For Living review at the Rose Theatre Kingston ***
Rules For Living Rose Theatre Kingston, 13th November 2017 The Tourist loves the Rose Theatre. Admittedly it helps that it is just a hop, skip and a jump, (well brisk walk), away from him. It does serve up some interesting theatre though, in amongst the music and comedy, and it…
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The Comedy About a Bank Robbery at the Criterion Theatre review ****
The Comedy About a Bank Robbery The Criterion Theatre, 15th October 2017 Abandoned by the SO, and with BD now, like MS, deep in academe, LD and I needed entertaining. The solution. A fix of Mischief Theatre. Now it is not the first time we had seen this. The whole…
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