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NEWSREVUE
Xmas edition now showing
Four nights a week
Thursday – 7.30pm
Friday – 9.30pm
Saturday – 9.30pm
Sunday – 7.00pm
The world’s longest running live comedy show. A fast-moving mix of sketches and songs, NewsRevue propels you through the world’s news and current events at breakneck pace — all-kicking, idol-burning comedy, with brand new content injected into the show weekly by a crack team of writers and cast alike.
This current affairs parody song and sketch show is acknowledged as a “rite of passage for all comedy newcomers” (Chortle). Alumni include The League of Gentlemen, Sarah Pascoe, Bill Bailey, Saskia Reeves and Michelle Collins. The cast members, described as having “Herculean levels of talent” (WhatsOnStage.com), together with an on-stage musical director receive 5-star reviews at Edinburgh Fringe Festival every year. Masochistically popular amongst politicians, you may see an MP in the audience!
WINDOW SEAT
16 - 18 December
Mother and daughter playfully catch up while waiting on a plane.
After an Edinburgh Fringe run met with glowing audience feedback and five-star reviews, Window Seat returns with its affirming and humorous exploration of how generations communicate and move between life-stages.
Sensuous, boho mother Trix (Helen Rose-Hampton) and her witty, determined daughter Lois (Maud May) survey the changes in their lives while waiting onboard a plane. One is getting used to an empty nest, the other to adulthood. They both hold high hopes for the coming trip together but, with their flight delayed, reunion proves more turbulent than anticipated. Mischievously zigzagging between topics of conversation – art, desire, haircuts, the double breast-pump – Trix and Lois riff off each other with an
unabashed but thorny affection. Like passengers eavesdropping, we overhear a relationship in need of renewal between two women unsure of how to navigate change.
WONDERIN’ Y
11 - 15 February
A one man show full of hope, determination and, ultimately ferocious and beating revival.
In the summer of 1973, Slade drummer Don Powell was involved in a devastating car accident which instantly killed his girlfriend and left him with a brain injury that resulted in severe and lasting memory loss.
Wonderin’ Y tells the story of how a 26-year-old man at the height of the band’s fame fought courageously to get back behind his drum kit and rebuild his life. Imagine being on stage in front of thousands of expectant fans and you can’t remember how to play your number one hit ‘Cum on feel the noize’ !
Wonderin’ Y was premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in the summer of 2024 – it played to packed houses and received excellent reviews.
Journalist Richard Cox who worked extensively with Slade in the 1970s wrote the following after the first night :
“It’s a forensically detailed immersion into the psychology of how a drummer returned to the world stage. The show is deeply emotional, gently humorous, moved along by snippets of music that takes us right back to the early 1970s, and enacted with a controlled vigour that holds the audience in the palm of Pearce’s, drumstick-wielding a hand”
We are very proud to announce that LONDON PUB THEATRES MAGAZINE is now an OFFIE AWARD WINNING publication
A ONEOFF Special Award has been awarded to London Pub Theatres Magazine and Editor Heather Jeffery for providing a vital forum for highlighting the excellent work that happens in rooms in pubs, with sensitive editing, and an acute sense of the importance of tiny fringe venues to the health and development of British Theatre