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Category Archives: Comedy
We had all better keep a look out for whatever Katie does next
The play that takes its title from Bowie’s dismissal of the town where he went to art school is nearing the end of its run. KEN TOWL took the chance to glimpse at the brilliance of the one-woman show at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Ken Towl, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, David Bowie, Edinburgh Fringe, Katie Hurley, Ken Towl, Stanley Halls, You're So F**king Croydon
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Croydon’s Ace designer just misses making her TV finale
Last night’s Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr proved to be the last appearance for a Croydon-born contestant who had wowed the judges in previous episodes. By STEVEN DOWNES Sometimes, even when you lose, you win. Briony Ace’s phone has been … Continue reading
Posted in Art, BRIT School, Business, Comedy, Schools
Tagged Alan Carr, BBC Television, Briony Ace, Brit School, Interior Design Masters, Surrey, The BRIT School
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Hurley’s Bowie-inspired one-woman show is coming home
Katie Hurley’s hit show from last year’s Edinburgh Fringe is finally coming home. The co-producer of the annual Croydonites Festival wrote and starred in her one-woman show at the world’s biggest fringe festival last summer, where You’re So F**king Croydon! … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Inside Croydon, Raye, Stanley Halls, Theatre, Under The Flyover
Tagged #SoEffingCroydon, Croydon College, Croydon College of Art, Croydonites, David Bowie, Edinburgh Fringe, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Katie Hurley, So Fucking Croydon, Stanley Halls, Under The Flyover, You're So F**king Croydon
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Fairfield panto star Mia Overfield picks up national stage award
Mia Overfield, star of the Fairfield Halls’ 2024-2025 panto, Snow White and the Five Dwarves, has been named as the winner of the Barbara Windsor Award for Best Principal Lead at this year’s National Pantomime Awards. Overfield, who has a … Continue reading
Instant comedy classics as Longhurst ‘creates’ Croydon history
With the help of AI and a bit of PhotoShop, one Croydon creative has made an entire online library of fake “histories”, all about Croydon – from the glory days of the Whitgift Centre, to circus elephants on George Street, … Continue reading
Star performance by Scorziello brings true anarchy to Coulsdon
Our veteran theatre critic, BELLA BARTOCK, slips into her kitten heels and puts on her pearls for a big night out in Coulsdon, where the performances on stage were truly electric I was quite taken by surprise when the doorbell … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Coulsdon, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Tagged Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Adam Ribeiro, Coulsdon, Coulsdon Community Centre, Dario Fo, Hannah Montgomery, Indianna Scorziello, Joe Wilson, Lauren Edmonds, Metropolitan Police, The Maniac, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, TWC, Zack Hall
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Comedy satire brings Croydon Labour vote fraud to the stage
You’ve seen Inside Croydon: The Movie (and if you haven’t, why not?). Now comes a comedy satire on stage, which the playwrights say they have based on Inside Croydon’s reporting, which was “incredibly insightful” and “a source of comedic and … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Croydon East, David Evans, Inside Croydon, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon East, Labour, London, Paratroopers, The Lion and Unicorn Theatre
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From Grimaldi to Chaplin: Bult’s mission to record clown faces
SUNDAY SUPPLEMENT: Unique collection showing the history of clowning was the work of an Addiscombe man, as DAVID MORGAN explains From his home at 26 Canning Road during the 1930s, Stan Bult set about recording and reviving the art of … Continue reading
Posted in Addiscombe West, Comedy, David Morgan, History
Tagged Canning Road, Charlie Chaplin, Clowns International, David Morgan, Joseph Grimaldi, Stan Bult
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Sign up NOW! to be part of the Croydonites Fringe Festival
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Posted in Advertisement features, Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
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Sign up TODAY! to take part in Croydonites Fringe Festival
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Posted in Advertisement features, Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
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Hurley rises to David Bowie’s challenge at her Edinburgh show
“It was my nemesis, I hated Croydon with a real vengeance. “It represented everything I didn’t want in my life, everything I wanted to get away from. “I think it’s the most derogatory thing I can say about somebody or … Continue reading
Sign up to take part in this year’s Croydonites Fringe Festival
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Posted in Advertisement features, Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydonites, Croydonites Festival, Theatre
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Panto: Dick Whittington, All Saints Sanderstead, Jan 6-13
Posted in Activities, Comedy, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club, Theatre
Tagged Dick Whittington, Panto, pantomime, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club
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Christmas-time comedy tour hopes to raise funds for Gaza
Human Appeal, a Manchester-based charity, has announced the lineup for its annual Comedy Takeover Tour, set to take place in 17 venues across 10 cities from December 15. That includes a performance in Croydon on Boxing Day. This year’s tour … Continue reading
Britain’s Got Talent auditions come to London next month
The nation’s favourite talent show is coming to south London next month looking for a talented act to take the crown of our 17th series. Britain’s Got Talent is holding open auditions where Londoners are invited to present their unique … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Comedy, Dance, Music, Poetry, Theatre
Tagged Britain's Got Talent, Kia Oval, Simon Cowell, The Oval
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Taking Liberty with the arts in a way that celebrates us all
KEN TOWL takes hope, and much joy, from last week’s Liberty Festival, where deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists injected some much-needed culture into the borough. Photos by PAUL FULLER The Liberty Festival, which landed in Croydon last weekend, represented the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Borough of Culture 2023, Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Ken Towl, Music, Poetry
Tagged Aaron Simmonds, Ashcroft Theatre, Borough of Culture, Croydon, Drunken Chorus, Fairfield Halls, Francesca Martinez, giraffes, Inner Vision Orchestra, Ken Towl, Liberty Festival, Steve Day
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Panto producers seek new talents for Aladdin at the Ashcroft
UK Productions and Fairfield Halls are on the hunt for local talent for this year’s Croydon pantomime Aladdin to be staged at the Ashcroft Theatre. Auditions for the Principal Ensemble are taking place at Fairfield Halls on Friday July 7 … Continue reading
Posted in Ashcroft Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Education, Fairfield Halls, Music, Schools
Tagged Aladdin, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Davood Ghadami, Fairfield Halls, Kiera-Nicole Brennan
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Aladdin promises a magic carpet ride at the Ashcroft Theatre
EastEnders and Holby City star Davood Ghadami and children’s TV favourite and former BRIT School pupil Kiera-Nicole Brennan head the cast announced this week for the biggest show of the year at the Fairfield Halls – the panto, which for … Continue reading
Posted in Ashcroft Theatre, Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre
Tagged Aladdin, Ashcroft Theatre, Brit School, Davood Ghadami, Fairfield Halls, Kiera-Nicole Brennan, Panto
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Croydon is made a national laughing stock, Part 94. And Part 95
No sooner had the nation’s best-selling satirical magazine had a good laugh (again) at Croydon’s expense after featuring the latest example of the council’s bungled handling of vast amounts of public money, than the borough has popped up again in … Continue reading
