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Continue reading →: The Ripper Files presented by Rumpus Theatre.When I first saw The Ripper Files earlier this year I enjoyed the twists and turns that the lecture-style presentation of the cases of Jack the Ripper took, in discovering who the infamous serial killers identify was. However, watching and reviewing for a second time I found that I concentrated…
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Continue reading →: GETTING THROUGH IT-Old Vic.
GETTING THROUGH IT is a performance in two Halves. Michael Rosen uses his literary craft in the first half to talk about the death of his son at the age of 19. Who died from meningitis. Rosen isn’t angry or bitter. It’s a beautifully crafted recollection of memories from the…
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Continue reading →: Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kids-Theatre Royal Winchester.Shlomo’s Beatbox Adventure For Kids offers a lesson in how you can learn to Beatbox using only four mouth movements and combining them to make fast-paced beatbox rhythms. The history and origins of Beatbox are explained by SK Shlomo although they engage with the audience throughout to see who else…
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Continue reading →: Voice Noise – Queen Elizabeth Hall.
The 90-minute dance show, Voice Noise, showing at Southbank’s Queen Elizabeth Hall is inspired by Anne Carson’s essay The Gender of Sound. She examines the ways in which sound is gendered within Western culture and analyses how, in her view, patriarchal structures have contributed to the marginalisation of women’s voices in…
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Continue reading →: Here and Now – Woking Ambassador Theatre.
Here & Now showing at the Ambassador Theatre in Woking as part of its UK tour is the new jukebox musical featuring the hits of pop sensation Steps. The story centres around the friendship of four employees of Better Best Bargains supermarket. Caz, (Rebecca Lock) at 49, is expecting some important…
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Continue reading →: Top Hat-New Wimbledom Theatre.
The UK tour of Top Hat, currently playing at New Wimbledon Theatre in London, might be just the ticket if you’ve missed out on the ballot for Strictly Come Dancing. With old-school jazz, musical theatre pizzazz, and choreography that’ll quite literally blow your top (hat), this production bursts with joy from start…
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Continue reading →: Making a Killing by Ben Kernow.Inspired by the diary of Frantz Schmidt (1554-1634) who was the resident hangman in Nuremberg for 45 years, during that time he had executed over 394 individuals and tortured or flogged many hundreds more. The position had been handed down to him from his father. However, Schmidt wanted to be…
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Continue reading →: Borley Rectory The Awakening by Steven M Smith and Christopher Jolley.Based on a true story Borley Rectory The Awakening tells a chilling account about the dark history surrounding the old Rectory which had been built on the grounds of an old Monastery where a Nun was cruelly treated by the Priests who lived there. However, her spirit is refusing to…
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Continue reading →: Plied and Prejudice by Matthew Semple.The evening begins with the entire evening’s guests arriving at the Vaults venue from Launceston Street. The walls are adorned with floor-to-ceiling cloth curtains depicting the gardens from the original Pride and Prejudice grounds of Pemberley. Once inside the bar is open and the entertainment begins by hosting a catwalk…
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Continue reading →: Choir of Man – Arts Theatre London.
Gala night at The Arts Theatre celebrated the four-year anniversary of the hit show The Choir of Man. Set in The Jungle, a fully realised pub complete with a working bar, the cast serve pints and engage with the audience. The story revolves around the familiar characters you’d find in…
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