Category: Comedy
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Pinter at Pinter 3 review ****
Pinter at the Pinter Three Harold Pinter Theatre, 19th November 2018 Tess Landscape Apart From That Girls That’s All God’s District Monologue That’s Your Trouble Special Offer Trouble In The Works Night A Kind Of Alaska Just to be clear I am a fan of the work of Harold Pinter.…
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Mistero Buffo at the Arcola Theatre review ****
Mistero Buffo Arcola Theatre, 15th November 2018 This probably ranks as one of the Tourist’s least insightful assertions, (and trust me there is stiff and substantial competition), but, in his experience, there are two types of one person theatre. The pure monologue, often fairly static, relying on the appeal of…
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The Habit of Art at Richmond Theatre review *****
The Habit of Art Richmond Theatre, 19th October 2018 There are a handful of plays that I regret not seeing when they first appeared. Not those I wish I had seen, That would be a very long list and cover those periods where I was not putting the required viewing…
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A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre review ****
A Very, Very, Very Dark Matter Bridge Theatre, 13th October 2018 OK then. All of you fans of densely-plotted, cerebral, potty-mouthed, fairy-tale, political, splatter, revenge, comedy fantasies. Your ship has come in. I have a strong feeling that Martin McDonagh’s new play at the Bridge will, in years to come,…
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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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