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Bridget Christie is part of the re-opening line-up at The Pleasance Theatre in Carpenter s Mews - Credit: Photography Natasha Pszenicki For those who have missed a laugh during lockdown the Pleasance Theatre has the answer with a stellar re-opening season of stand-up, drag and musicals. The venue in Carpenters Mews, Islington throws open its doors on May 17 with a blistering two month programme including a Comedy Comeback season featuring live sets by Rob Beckett, Bridget Christie, Sindhu Vee, Rich Hall and Phil Wang. Rob Beckett - Credit: Archant There s also EXPRESS G&S: The complete works of Gilbert & Sullivan in 75 minutes by locals Charles Court Opera; an exploration of permission, patriarchy and pop music by physical theatre company Silent Faces in Godot is a Woman; topical news show Laughable Live, and The Pleasance’s drag sweetheart Ginger Johnson in all-singing, all-dancing cabaret Th ....
The week s best comedy on demand The week s best comedy on demand. For more streaming gigs use the find live comedy search box with online as the region. Now ALFIE BROWN - IMAGINATION: The comic’s latest ‘philosophical and obscene’ special, filmed in Glasgow’s Oran Mor just days before the first lockdown hit last March, has been released on YouTube for free. Described as ’truly subversive and almost torridly honest,’ the show explores individuality, sexuality and ‘trying to feel at home in the away end’. Tonight JOHN-LUKE ROBERTS: STDAD-UP: The comedian has just discovered a tape of this rightly acclaimed 2015 Edinburgh Fringe show - and will be streaming it live on YouTube tonight. It s his take on the dead dad show that had become the stuff of festival cliché by this point, a bizarre physical tribute to a man he didn t much like. Tickets are available from Go Faster Stripe, priced a fiver. Here is our review from the time. ....
Ghosts Adura Onashile is a star on the rise. She wrote Expensive Shit, set in a Scottish toilet and Fela Kuti’s nightclub in Lagos, and was due to portray Medea at last year’s Edinburgh international festival. Her latest is an audio drama about empire, to be heard on a walk through Glasgow. Rider Spoke ....
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Sara Pascoe and Josh Widdicombe The sibling team, of the London-based 57 Festivals, already successfully delivered a Covid-secure event with their Greenwich Comedy Festival in September 2020. Cass said: “We were heartbroken to have to cancel last year’s event. We were really looking forward to returning especially after such a strong first year. But everything is in front of us now and we consider ourselves incredibly lucky to have been able to reimagine our event to suit these challenging times.” Will said: “We’ve got an unbelievable line-up and can’t wait to get these acts in front of our Brighton audience. ....