Category: Comedy
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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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Daniel Kitson at the Roundhouse review ****
Daniel Kitson: Something Other Than Everything The Roundhouse, 25th July 2017 I really can’t be doing with most stand-up comedy and will rarely pay money to go and see it. Most stand-ups are mildly diverting at best and often begin to grate as they default to cheap laughs from tired…
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Austentatious at Leicester Square Theatre review ****
Austentatious Leicester Square Theatre, 26th February 2017 So I am guessing that a good number of people have already stumbled across the comedy joy that this improvisatory troupe bring. So I’ll get to the point. The premise is simple. Take some suggestions from the audience for daft, “unpublished” Jane Austen…
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Stewart Lee: Content Provider review *****
Stewart Lee: Content Provider G Live Guildford, 10th March 2017 There are only a few stand up comedians I would pay money to see (or even go for free for that matter). The vast majority of the observational comedy types off the telly cannot sustainably make me laugh or think…