Roundabout Theatre Company has announced the third season of The Refocus Project, its multi-year project to elevate and restore marginalized plays to the American canon. This year's series of readings will feature Asian American and Pacific Islander playwrights: Prince Gomolvilas, Velina Hasu Houston, Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, and Anuvab Pal.
Review of his new black and white BBC Two shorts
There’s something about Harry Hill that suggests he’d probably be making these silly black and white short films whether he’d been commissioned by the BBC or not.
His Lonely Island sketches, the first of which aired last night, have the feel of a man-child just mucking about for his own entertainment. Hill leans into the home-made ethos with low-grade costumes and ‘special’ effects he makes no attempt to conceal. The amateur execution is true to the word’s original roots, something done for pure love.
Gone are Hill’s trademark oversized collars as he dons a caveman’s bearskin to do battle with a skeleton; a fake nose, drawn-on eyebrows and an extravagant hat to become Napoleon atop a donkey Marengo; and a full monkey suit to become a primate in search of some delicious fruit… if only that pesky bird doesn’t get it first.
Review of tonight s Radio 2 Festival Of Funny pilots
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Secret Desires (
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The BBC are going all-in on Kiri Pritchard-McLean as a star of the future, as well they might, since she’s a fine comic.
Less than two months after her Radio 4 special Egg-sistential Crisis, about the low birth rate among millennials, comes this Radio 2 pilot, as part of the Festival Of Funny season. And that’s not counting her Radio Wales show, her appearance on Funny Festival Live on BBC Two this Tuesday, her hosting of Radio 4’s Newsjack, and various guest appearances.
The risk of being one of the hardest-working women in comedy, of course, is breadth over depth: becoming one of those comics who’s booked absolutely everywhere as a safely witty pair of hands, without ever getting the chance to create something truly memorable.
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