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Karen is a new one-woman show by Sarah Cameron-West that follows in the tradition of Phoebe Waller-Bridge and Miranda Hart: a protagonist, written and performed by Cameron-West herself, conjures an entire world as she attempts to navigate troubled relationships and the social demands of office life. The unnamed protagonist has broken up with by her boyfriend, Joe,…
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Jeremy Nedd’s From Rock to Rock is a meditative and atmospheric piece that interrogates the theft of Black cultural expression through the story of the court case brought by rapper 2 Milly against the video game company behind Fortnite for appropriating his dance move, the Milly Rock. It serves as a poetic resistance against the commodification of Black creativity…
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Walking away from a dream sounds like a nightmare—having to admit defeat to yourself, to everyone who knew about your ambitions, and to let go of something that’s become integral to your identity. In her one-woman show How to Give Up on Your Dreams, Meg Chizek loudly and proudly tells us how she gave up on…
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Bloody Mary and the Nine Day Queen tells the tragic story of Lady Jane Grey (Anna Unwin), the 17-year-old cousin of Mary I (Cezarah Bonner). Following the death of the young King Edward VI, the so-called “puppet king,” England is left in need of a monarch. With both Mary and Elizabeth declared illegitimate, Edward’s advisor,…
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Michael Rosen’s Getting Through It is a two-part show formed of two stories: The Death of Eddie and Many Kinds of Love. In the first of these, he takes us through the day his son Eddie died in 1999, the moments that followed, the funeral, life after the funeral, and the ongoing present. The second…
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What separates Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am from an average stand-up show is everything that has come before it. Tom Rosenthal’s career as a comic actor hangs over the performance. He knows we know him — but not necessarily for his own stand-up. We arrive with preconceptions: we think something of him before…
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Magic Alan is a crazy and unapologetically ridiculous new show by Beth Beaden, following Alan (Gregor Roach), an incompetent magician who crashes a children’s charity gala in the hope of finally getting noticed. In an attempt to charm Elaine (Natasha McAteer), the lady with the clipboard backstage, he performs a trick that accidentally summons a demon. The…
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Licensed. Professional. Trained. Qualified. is wild, grotesque, dark, deep and laugh-out-loud hilarious. Alice Cockayne is a powerhouse, embodying six outrageous female alter egos, each with jobs typically associated with women. Through them, she dives headfirst into female fears and desires, pulling the audience into a world that feels both absurdly exaggerated and disturbingly familiar. The production…
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Sameera Bhalotra Bowers’ What Is Going On? is a joyfully chaotic hour of comedy that mixes PowerPoint slides, puppetry, stand-up, and outright silliness into a uniquely strange package. Fresh out of university, Bowers isn’t quite sure how to navigate the real world. Her show is part Sesame Street for academics, part surreal crash course in how to thoroughly confuse…
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Of all forms of comedy, standup is perhaps the most inseparable from the person on stage. Even when a set leans on topical riffs or absurd ‘what if…?’ scenarios – as Alec Watson’s here often does – it still reflects the unique perspective of the performer. So what happens when a life-altering event crashes into that…
Rosie Wood 