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Continue reading →: London Clown Festival launch-Jackson Lane Theatre.Last night, the Jackson Lane Theatre in Highgate opened the stage for the launch of the 2026 London Clown Festival. Clowns are no longer stereotypical, bright coloured wigs, large shows, and white faces. They come in all forms of entertainment. Clowning is a skill set using expressive physically comedy performance…
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Continue reading →: Romeo and Juliet-Salisbury Playhouse.Salisbury Playhouse has rewritten the way in which Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is staged. Using the entire premises of the Theatre, audiences are moved from scene to scene as the classic love story unfolds. Each audience member are given headphones when they arrive at the Theatre and are to be…
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Continue reading →: John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers-The Play-Woking Theatre.For fans of the original Fawlty Towers, this production captures the slapstick fast-paced comedy to a tee. Basil Fawlty, played by Danny Bayne, should never have made the career choice to run a hotel. Without his long-suffering wife Sybil (Mia Austin), the business would have closed down years ago. The…
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Continue reading →: One Breath Before The End-The Glitch.
Stephen Leach’s sixty minute play, One Breath Before The End opens with a jolt: total darkness, then an almighty bang. When the lights snap on, we’re plunged into the grimy underbelly of an abandoned car park, littered with urban debris – a discarded tyre, a shopping trolley, chunks of broken concrete. It’s the…
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Continue reading →: Krapp’s Last Tape-Royal Court Theatre.New Playwright Leo Simpe-Asante, winner of the 2025 inaugural Royal Court Young Playwrights Award, opens each performance of Krapp’s Last Tape with his new play inspired by Samuel Beckett called Godot’s To-Do List. Shakeel Haakim offers an engaging and at times funny insight into where Godot got to. The voice…
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Continue reading →: Dark of the Moon-Charing Cross Theatre.Dark of the Moon is a show that wears its folklore roots proudly, drawing loosely from Scottish and English myth and the centuries‑old ballad Barbara Allen. Here, the tale is transplanted to the fictional Appalachian town of Buck Creek and the Smoky Mountains that loom above it — a setting…
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Continue reading →: Aesop’s Fables -The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival.An endearing adaptation of a few of the children’s Aesop’s Fables are brought together in a delightful thirty five minute production aimed at families with small children. The classic story of the “Hare and the Tortoise” is a favourite. Where the over zealous and rather “cocky” Hare doesn’t understand anything…
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Continue reading →: Resurgam-The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival.Dhara Paul bought her solo performance to The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival called Resurgam. Paul combined narrative and songs to tell two stories about love and loss. The initial opening is the set in the newly built Thornfield Bar, and the audience is addressed as old friends and patrons…
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Continue reading →: The Little Broomstick Rider-The Fireside Folktales Barnes Fringe Festival.A Quarantined Paper Series by Neverbird Productions. The Little Broomstick Rider is an award-winning animated series and short film about a young boy called Linhard accused of witchcraft in 1620s Bavaria. Linhard is on trial in front of the court, being held by four god-fearing “noble elders” who are terrified of…
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