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Arthur Smith: Always Good For A Laugh
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 Former Fist Of Fun Comic Courts Controversy
Reclaiming Chaplin's moustache for comedy, Richard Herring - the star of The Headmaster's Son and 90s double act Lee & Herring - muses on iconography, whether racists are closer than Liberals to believing that all people are the same and why an innocent square inch of facial hair has taken the blame for Nazism.
Herring recently justified his show in the Guardian (in response to to an article by Guardian critic Brian Logan) – which contained the following:
“In my show I get into a spiral...
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 A Bullet Each For Marriage & Society
'Hedda Gabler…Hedda Gabler…Hedda Gabler’ , whispers the voice of the lover to his ex mistress - a sexual roughness in his voice matches the quiver in hers - and you could hear a pin drop in the long pause that fell upon the stage at the end of his words.
Hedda (Rosamund Pike) and Loevborg (Colin Tierney) are watched by her husband, Tessman (Robert Glenister) and Judge Brack (Tim McInnery).
As they stare at the couple on...
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 Kodo: One Earth Tour Came To Brighton
…As the show reaches its climax the heaving sweating men, clutching great drum sticks the width of small trees, are beating and beating and beating and beating away at the great huge drum that dwarfs them (it would fill your living room) as they lean back in some kind of wild yoga stance and raise their arms time after time and the air fills with the noise, the great booming resonance – Yet it is not just the sound but the movement and the architecture of it all, both sound and presence has a sculptural quality so hard to pin down, and so finally they stop, the crowd roars and are on their feet, it is all over.
Many years ago a group of people disillusioned with the state of Japanese culture moved out to a remote island in the Sea of Japan. The Island was called Sado, a one-time commerci...
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 Shhh! It's Trailer Trash’s First Birthday Bash!
It’s Trailer Trash's first birthday at Komedia and the cult movie-themed club extravaganza is celebrating in style on Saturday 20 March with their most exquisitely decadent theme yet – Baz Luhrmann!
All the best bits from the director's films such as Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet and Strictly Ballroom will be up on the big screen, setting the tone for a truly fabulous evening.
Along w...
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 Musical Minimalist Presents 'Nightbook'
It is our great misfortune to announce that such was the power, wonder and beauty of Ludovico Einaudi's 'Nightbook' performance of modern classical/ avant-garde music (Dome Concert Hall, Sunday 28th Feb,) that our reviewer was so taken with such beauty simply flung his belongings into the air and ran off into the streets screaming something about the beauty of ideas and the horror of the ownership of the tangible and so thus consumable product.
So brilliant was the work in question that the idea of writing one of his usual fumbling attempts to get grips with a great moment of the arts, to somehow transform it into mere words was too m...
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 Alex Horne: Award Winning Comedian @
It's a book, it's a .. well .. erm .. what is it?! Able to answer the mystery is an Award winning comedian and star (and co-creator!) of BBC Four's comedy quiz show We Need Answers.
Alex Horne heads to Komedia this March with Wordwatching.
Also publishe...
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 Rory Bremner: One-Man Opposition Party
As Britain gets ready to vote in the biggest election in a generation, the country's top satirical impressionist takes to the road again for his first stand-up tour in five years.
In the run-up to polling day, Rory Bremner will give his own unique take on the characters and events dominating the news, with impressions ranging from Gordon Brown to Louis Walsh
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 An Intense & Inclusive Performance @ Theatre Royal
Paris brings a bouquet of lilies to his wedding, but he is a fool for his bride-to-be is dead.
She lies prostrate and bleeding from her heart across the body of her lover, a man who took his life for fear of living it without her.
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 Eno Puts His Stamp On Brighton Festival Programme
In just a few months Brian Eno will begin his tenure as Brighton Festival's Guest Artistic Director.
The highly respected artist, cultural thinker and producer will be curating a fascinating collection of events across the city - including 77 Million Paintings, an exclusively commissioned soun...
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 Polish & Imagination @ Theatre Royal Brighton
Just when you think that the Rambert Dance Company seem to be heading into the safety zone, into the predictable, aiming to 'entertain' - just at the moment you begin to think all this is true - they come out and truly knock your socks off.
In a series of dance routines to mark part of the Darwin centenary celebrations, in a tour that kicked off at the Theatr...
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