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London theatre reviews and interviews
Category: Comedy
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The Highgate Vampire is a playful and wacky comedy-horror inspired by real events about two vampire hunters who both claim to have slain a fanged bloodsucker who’s been spotted in North London. Set in the 1970s, Sheffield (Alexander Knott) is a pompous, crucifix-wielding bishop, while Farringdon (James Demaine) is a theatrical tobacconist from Vauxhall who…
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Video review transcript: When We Are Married at the Donmar Warehouse is such a fun and funny play. It isn’t a festive play, but it feels perfect for the season. It is a true ensemble piece, but there are a couple of standout performances for me. All the cast are superb, but I particularly enjoyed…
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Video review transcript: I’m going to come right out and say it: I love this production of the National Theatre’s Importance of Being Earnest. It’s a perfect blend of staying faithful to the original, elevating those elements of the original, the wit of Oscar Wilde’s script, while adding contemporary embellishments that just lift it. This…
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Tessa Wong, Virginia Gay, and Joseph Evans in Cyrano, Park Theatre. Photo: Craig Sugden Virginia Gay's effervescent, gender-flipped rom-com version of Cyrano won a Fringe First award and now takes up residence at the Park Theatre. A Greek Chorus sets a cheeky, humourous tone. Two know each other – 1 (Tessa Wong) and 2 (David…
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Lee Mack, Frances Barber and Sarah Alexander in The Unfriend. Photo by Manuel Harlan If you like sitcom-style comedy, then Steven Moffat's The Unfriend at the Wyndham's Theatre could be the show for you. It centres on an unwelcome house guest whom the hosts are too polite (or British) to ask to leave despite discovering…
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Samuel Barnett in 'Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going To Happen' at Bush Theatre. Photo: The Other Richard Feeling Afraid As If Something Terrible Is Going to Happen at the Bush Theatre is the sad clown paradox. The Comedian (Samuel Barnett) tries (and succeeds) to make people laugh while simultaneously suffering from anxiety…
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Marion Bailey and Alun Armstrong as Flo & Jack Kirk in To Have and To Hold, Hampstead Theatre. Photo: Marc Brenner Is Richard Bean's new comedy To Have and To Hold at the Hampstead Theatre as funny as One Man, Two Guv'nors? Comparison, when you've had such a big hit, is inevitable. This has a…
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No One, Omnibus Theatre, Jan 2023 No One at the Omnibus Theatre bursts onto the stage with a scene in a club, complete with a live DJ, which quickly descends into a fight. Then we jump to a police station and investigation into a missing girl and the violent attack of a man. …
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Sam McArdle in the Manny, King's Head Theatre, Jan 2023. Photo: Gabriel Bush Sam McArdle plays 'the manny', a male nanny working for rich, single women in West London. He is a charmer, charming his employers, his charges and the women on dating apps he wants to sleep with. But 'living the life' isn't all…
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There is a scene in Eureka Day at the Old Vic during which the audience is roaring with laughter, but it isn't anything to do with the actors who are on stage or what they are saying. And it isn't a mistake, it is intended, and it's a genius scene for a couple of reasons,…