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Latitude Festival: Speakeasy Round-Up
With Latitude being so diverse in terms of offerings, it’s always a challenge to a) get around everything you want…
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Contemporary
Latitude Festival: The Pappyshow | Boys: A Celebration of Manhood – Theatre Arena
Creators: The Pappyshow Reviewer: Simon Topping Ten men of colour stand on stage as the lead dancer proclaims, “This is…
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Comedy
Latitude Festival: Jonathan Pie – Comedy Stage
Creator: Tom Walker Reviewer: Simon Topping Bursting onto stage red-faced and raging from the start, Jonathan Pie barely takes a…
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Latitude Festival: QI Live – Comedy Stage
Reviewer: Simon Topping For the first time ever the mainstay and great love of British television, QI, comes to the…
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Dance
Latitude Festival: Sadler’s Wells – Double-bill dance on The Waterfront
Reviewer: Robin Winters Arriving on stage and beginning to dance unannounced, Humanhood immediately both throw us completely and draw us straight into…
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Latitude Festival
Latitude: Suffrageddon, Theatre Arena
Reviewer: Kris Hallett We’re in a room where it happens but it’s not THE room. In the years after a…
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Musical
Me and My Girl – Chichester Festival Theatre
Music: Noel Gay Revised Book: Stephen Fry and Mike Ockrent Director Daniel Evans Reviewer: Steve Turner Tension is running high…
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Musical
Shrek the Musicals – Theatre Royal, Norwich
Book and Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire Music: Jeanine Tesori Director: Nigel Harman Reviewer: Lu Greer Shrek the Musical, currently embarking on…
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Musical
Sasha Regan’s Iolanthe – Theatre Royal, Brighton
Writer: W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan Director: Sasha Regan Reviewer: Cathy Swaby Gilbert and Sullivan’s uproarious satirical operetta Iolanthe is a…
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Drama
The Country Wife – Minerva Theatre, Chichester
Writer: William Wycherley Director: Jonathan Munby Reviewer: David Guest Restoration comedies are enjoying something of a renaissance, with a recent…
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