GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Celebrating 'the outcasts, the buffoons, the banished'
MODERN-CHAPLIN EXPLORATIONS: Julia Masli
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Comedy From Hell
Bill Murray pub, Angel Comedy, London
THE young men in the front row aren’t sure what’s going on.
Let me explain it to them: they’re at a brand new comedy night called Comedy From Hell, and an Estonian clown is trying to get them to do high-fives with a plastic leg.
Sunday night audiences, as Mark Silcox suggests, are sophisticated and discerning. As opposed to Saturday ones, who just want topical gags and to be asked where they’re from.
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