Two 8-year-old boys, longing for the day when they are 16, and the world is theirs, jump into Hampstead Heath ponds, in a rather poor imitation of a scene from Butch Cassidy.
Two 8-year-old boys, longing for the day when they are 16, and the world is theirs, jump into Hampstead Heath ponds, in a rather poor imitation of a scene from Butch Cassidy.
Peter Groom is one of the outstanding performers at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe in his magnetic recreation of Marlene Dietrich.
An Englishman, an Irishman and a far from certain Scotsman meet in a kind of no-man’s land. They aren’t waiting for Godot, though it feels like it – but they are waiting for a punchline. You see, they may be in a joke – but they’re not sure.
Claire Sweeney, star of Brookside, Celebrity Big Brother, Chicago, Guys and Dolls and many more shows is as unpretentious as they come.
In this multi-gender knock about show, Katie Reddin Clancy seeks to confuse, amuse, explore and generally mix up our perceptions of men and women.
Simon Callow gives a stunning bravura performance in this Frank McGuiness adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s famous monologue. On a caste black-draped stage, a sturdy chair is lit from above by an uncompromising interrogator’s light. In the chair sits Oscar Wilde, coming towards the end of his prison sentence in Reading Gaol.
Bill Grundy was an erudite, surprisingly intellectual news interviewer who regularly took top-flight British politicians apart on television in the 1960s and 70s – a sort of Paxman of his era who took no prisoners.
Melinda Hughes is an internationally known lyric opera singer who has diverted from her main career to create the real-life role of Margo Lion – supposed lover of Marlene Dietrich, ballet dancer from Constantinople turned 1930s cabaret chanteuse in Berlin.
They seem fatally mismatched from the start – Hakeem, a high-flying Nigerian-born professor of theoretical physics, obsessed with the minutiae of the universe and self-absorbed by the admiration of his colleagues.
It’s 30 minutes to curtain up on a charity show at the London Palladium, and the long-separated female comedy duo Anderson and West meet for the first time in 10 years, we are led to believe.
