In advance of his large gig at London’s Royal Albert Hall, as well as in Dublin and Belfast, Russell Brand will be warming up at The Hexagon in Reading.
The warm-up show is on Friday 6 November, 8pm at The Hexagon, and will be one of the last chances to see his Scandalous show. Tickets are still available.
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A herd of Britain’s top comedians are standing up for planet-friendly farming at LIVEstock 2009 at the HMV Hammersmith Apollo 12 November, 2009, 7pm.
Chris Addison, Dan Antopolski, Marcus Brigstocke, Richard Herring, Russell Howard, Francesca Martinez, Stephen Merchant, Lucy Porter and Mark Watson will perform at this barnstorming, one-off event is in support of environmental charity Friends of the Earth. Special guest appearance from Razorlight.
Tickets are available from website or Ticketmaster on 08448 44 47 48 or www.foe.co.uk/livestock.
Following the sell-out success of the spring run Frank Skinner’s Credit Crunch Cabaret returns to the Lyric Theatre for a limited season from Monday 12th October.
To date, acts who have performed include: Al Murray, Michael McIntyre, Lee Mack, Russell Howard, Dave Gorman, Punt and Dennis, Ian Broudie (The Lightening Seeds), Huw Cornwall (The Stranglers), Goldie Lookin Chain, Connie Fisher and Ursula Martinez.
Guests already confirmed for this season include: David Baddiel, Chris Addison, We Are Klang, Jimeon, BeardyMan, The Magnets, Fascinating Aida, Nina Conti, Sarah Millican, Russell Kane, Swing Dance X-Treme, Missy Malone and Paul Zerdin. Plus a number of very special mystery guests. For each week’s line-up check out: www.frankskinnerlive.com. All Tickets £10
3 days later and back at Etcetera Theatre again. The first piece of good news is that the aircon is actually working properly this time and it feels quite comfortable. Which is appropriate, because that’s exactly the mood that Triona Adams creates within minutes of taking the stage and maintains till the end of the piece.
The performance is a monologue which leads us through a period of about 18 months in Triona Adams’ life. The starting point is her life as a successful London theatrical agent which she abandons to become a nun, and the main narrative concerns her experiences in a Benedictine abbey (don’t call it a convent or a nunnery) somewhere between Oxford and Swindon. There are no big gags in the show, but the tightness of the script and the quality of Triona’s gentle performance and stagecraft made this a spell-binding show which kept the audience at the Etcetera enthralled throughout. (more…)
