GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Beyond our Ken
A brilliant tribute to a comic genius goes way beyond mere biography, says LYNNE WALSH
Channelling comic genius: Jeremy Stockwell (left)
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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
Ken
The Bunker, London
“IF THERE’S a goat, order pudding,” was the advice of the adorably anarchic Ken Campbell on one occasion.
Baffling? Not at all. In the context of an anecdote about the late comic genius’s life, it makes perfect sense.
This two-hander, written by and featuring Terry Johnson as himself, sees Jeremy Stockwell channelling Campbell rather than playing him.
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