GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Send in the Clowns with James Walsh: August 15, 2022
The Fringe, in its current form, is unsustainable as it means selling one of your more important organs to pay the greedy landlords
Charlie Vero-Martin with Mr Basketcase
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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
“I’m off to clown college because it’s cheaper and more accessible to go to Paris and study with a master than to do an arts festival in my home town.”
Charlie Vero-Martin, actor, comedian, writer and improviser, is on stage with a basket with googly eyes.
He is called Mr Basketcase. It is 2am on a Monday morning.
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