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Category Archives: Comedy
There’ll be Pirates coming to Wandle Park this summer
Posted in Art, CODA, Comedy, Music, Theatre, Wandle Park
Tagged CODA, Croydon, Wandle Park
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Organisers want poets and jokers for Crystal Palace festival
Are you a poet (but didn’t know it)? Or do you reckon you’re funnier than Max Miller*? The Crystal Palace Overground Festival is conducting its own version of Britain’s Got Talent this year, with a special tent set aside in … Continue reading
After the comedy clowns, now Sh!t Theatre’s in the Town Hall
We’ve had crap councils for a very long time. So it is perhaps entirely fitting that next month, the Town Hall will be the venue for Sh!t Theatre. With £15,000-worth of grants from, equally, the Arts Council and Croydon Council, … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Croydonites Festival, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged Amy Johnson, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydonites Festival
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Waddon gets a panto more polished than Aladdin’s lamp
It is the stuff of West End legend that BELLA BARTOCK once delivered the finest performance of Widow Twankey ever seen outside the London Palladium. Until it was discovered that she was not a proper Dame. But this week, even … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Fairfield Halls, pantomime, Waddon
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Jack and the Beanstalk, Sanderstead panto, Jan 7-14
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Music, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club, Theatre
Tagged Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club
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Crystal Palace Overground Festival announces 2017 dates
The 2017 Crystal Palace Overground Festival will be staged from June 12 to 18. “After a year off in preparation for the move to Crystal Palace Park, we return bigger and better than ever and we are looking forward to … Continue reading
Dick Turpin, the Panto! Coulsdon, Dec 10-18
Posted in Comedy, Coulsdon, Dance, Music, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
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Pet Shop Boys panto to get you into the Christmas spirit
BELLA BARTOCK, our tame theatre reviewer, put on her glad rags to attend the opening night of the South London Theatre Company’s pantomime, Jack I’m always rather suspicious of pantos which advertise themselves as “for all the family”. For some … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, South London Theatre, South Norwood, Stanley Halls, Theatre
Tagged pantomime, South Norwood, Stanley Halls
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Youngsters offered their chance to win place in Aladdin
Waddon Leisure Centre on the Purley Way gets to stage Croydon’s version of Britain’s Got Talent this Sunday, with open auditions for talented children who can sing, dance and act and who want to be cast in the chorus for … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Aladdin, Fairfield Halls, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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Theatre season offers mix of solemn drama and low farce
From the solemn to the ridiculous, the autumn season at the Spread Eagle Theatre, in the room above the pub on the corner of the High Street and Katharine Street in the town centre, appears to offer it all. From … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Cinema, Comedy, Music, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
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Winston McKenzie’s all at sea with English Democrats dinner
He’s back. Winston McKenzie, the serial political loser who was unable to fulfil his ambition to become Mayor of London for the English Democrats when he couldn’t raise enough dosh for the deposit, has now gone into the event promotion … Continue reading
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Tagged English Democrats, Marianne Bowness, Tory, UKIP, Winston McKenzie
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A Dream performance in the grounds of Coulsdon Manor
“On the eve of a royal wedding, two lovers elope and find themselves in a mysterious moonlit forest” Theatre Workshop Coulsdon is performing A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the open air at Coulsdon Manor Hotel every evening (except Sunday and … Continue reading
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Freudian slips provide Sergeant with his gagging reflex
What do stand-up comedy and an Austrian neurologist have in common? Freud (Sigmund, rather than Clement) provides Alex Sergeant with a rich source of material in “Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious”, at this year’s Croydon Comedy Festival later … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Surrey Street
Tagged Alex Sergeant, Croydon Comedy Festival, Project B, Surrey Street
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There’s real comedy to be found in this farce in Sanderstead
BELLA BARTOCK stepped out in the south of the borough yesterday for the first night of the hard-working local amdram’s latest production There is a convivial atmosphere at the Sanderstead Dramatic Club’s French farce Don’t Dress for Dinner. Even if … Continue reading
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Don’t Dress for Dinner, Sanderstead Dramatic Club, Jun 2-4
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Cricket’s bowled a Yorker with rare screening of documentary
Money prioritised over all else? In cricket? Surely not… Yet that is the key finding of Death of a Gentleman, an award-winning sports documentary which the country’s television channels have so far found too hot to handle for their scheduling. … Continue reading
Open Mic Nights, Thornton Heath, Apr 29 and May 27
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Charity comedy show ticket sales undermined by Fairfield
Charity workers in Croydon are worried that they have been caught in the cross-fire between the Fairfield Halls and the Town Hall in the bitter dispute over the arts venue’s future, with what ought to be one of the borough’s … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Kate Vennell, Patricia Hay-Justice
Tagged Crystal Palace, Fairfield Halls, Kevin Day, Patricia Hay-Justice
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Comedy Festival will be more than Much Ado About Nothing
The second Croydon Comedy Festival takes place around the borough this June and July, offering a mix of top-flight live comedy acts, Shakespearian theatre, and free screenings of some classic movies. Confirmed acts include Croydon’s own Lucy Porter and Kevin … Continue reading
Posted in CODA, Comedy, Pubs, Spread Eagle Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Croydon Comedy Festival, Spread Eagle Theatre
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And it’s goodbye from him: Ronnie Corbett RIP
Croydon today lost one of its most famous residents, and firmest of friends, after the death of comedian Ronnie Corbett. Corbett, who was 85, had been ill for some time. Figures from theatre and television were quick to pay tribute … Continue reading
Mayor’s fundraising comedy night, Fairfield Halls, Apr 17
Posted in Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Patricia Hay-Justice
Tagged Fairfield Halls, Kevin Day, Mark Steel, Patricia Hay-Justice
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The Ladykillers, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon, Apr 2-9
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Horror Show in Wimbledon that is worth taking a Punt on
OPENING NIGHT: DIANA ECCLESTON takes the tram to travel back in time. Or, at least, to do the Time Warp at the Rocky Horror Show’s latest incarnation at the New Wimbledon Theatre Whoever would have guessed, when the Rocky Horror … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Dance, Diana Eccleston, Music, Theatre
Tagged Diana Eccleston, New Wimbledon Theatre, Rocky Horror Show
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