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REVIEW – Taskmaster: The Experience ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“He’s sitting under a tree, thinking of tasks and shit.” – Jamali Maddix, Taskmaster Season 11, Episode 6: “Absolute Casserole” Have you ever wanted to be the star of your favourite game show? Well, if Taskmaster is your favourite gameshow, then now is your chance. Taskmaster: The Live Experience allows audience members to participate in…
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REVIEW: Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Ale!” “And well met!” Walking into Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern feels like walking into a Renaissance Faire (and that’s not just because someone from my local Faire is in the cast!), and I have never felt more at home. As someone who is only familiar with the game of D&D because of a…
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REVIEW: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Time and tide behaved a little differently” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the story of a man who is born at the age of seventy and ages backwards, focusing on the difficulties he faces being ostracised from society by his horrified parents. In…
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REVIEW – Juno Birch: Probed ⭐⭐⭐
“She’s beauty, she’s grace, she’s from outer space!” Juno Birch: Probed begins with Birch being wheeled out in a rolling chair to great applause from the audience, immediately recognisable from her blonde beehive wig and pastel blue skin, her drag persona being an alien who has crashed to Earth. She lipsynches to a song about…
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REVIEW: Fanboy ⭐⭐⭐
Walking into the theatre for Fanboy feels like you are entering the room of a young child in the 1990s – there’s a cabinet with an old television set, several VHS tapes scattered around and a cabinet full of memorabilia from a range of different franchises. Written and performed by Joe Sellman-Leava, Fanboy begins with…
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REVIEW: Bridge Command ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Ever wanted to fly your own starship?” “Immersive theatre.” The words can send shivers down one’s spine. The concept of immersion has become quite the buzzword in not only the world of theatre but the entertainment industry as a whole, with shows and exhibitions promising to transport audiences into another place without leaving London. But…
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REVIEW – Kate Norris: Farm Fatale ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
“Fresh from farm to stage” Kate Norris: Farm Fatale starts with an interesting question – what happens when you grow up on a farm but have more of a proclivity for a different lifestyle? Norris tells the audience about how she grew up as one of the more scandalous members of her farm community, illustrating…
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REVIEW: A Stan is Born ⭐⭐⭐⭐
“If you can’t stan yourself, how the hell are you gonna stan someone else?” A Stan Is Born, written and performed by Alexis Sakellaris, is a musical comedy detailing Sakellaris’s move from New York City to rural Germany, where he finds his only salvation in pop divas. The show, described as “a love letter to…
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REVIEW: Port City Signature ⭐⭐⭐
“Train, port, city, sea” Have you ever gotten off at the wrong train station? Have you taken refuge in a local pub, waiting for the next train to come? Have said pub’s owners ever given you an offer you can’t refuse, say, killing a man for £100,000? This is what one woman faces when she…
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