Pandora's Boxes

Pandora, Husband and Baby Son live somewhere in a rural, folkloresque Russia, possibly existing in the split second the Wall came down and the west poured into the Motherland.

 

Out, Damned Spot

Lady Macbeth, eh? What an absolute psycho bitch; good riddance to bad Caledonian rubbish, say I. That’s about as deep as the traditional analysis of Shakespeare’s original devil woman goes, but writer and performer Emma Hutchins has rewritten the rule book with her intelligent, moving and superbly performed one-woman show Out, Damned Spot. Think of it as X-Men Origins: Lady Macbeth.

 

Daylords Return

Daylords Return, the sequel to character comedy double act Morris & Vyse’s 2010 show Daylords, returns its incredulous audience to the eponymous ITV7 daytime show.

 

Geoff Norcott is Good in a Crisis

Geoff Norcott seems very keen to warn you that his show might not be much good yet, which is a charitable thing to do when nobody’s sitting more than ten metres from the exit.

 

Evin Donohoe: International Homewrecker

“Do we have anyone in from Sydney?” asks Antipodean comic Evin Donohoe a few minutes into his interminable hour-long set.

 

Pagan Love Songs for the Uninitiated

The opening moments of Pagan Love Songs for the Uninitiated – heavy breathing on a blacked out stage, a performer lying motionless until she’s due to speak, the only feature of the set a series of ‘zones’ marked out with string – smack of a GCSE Drama composition.

 

Arabella's Revenge

Starring two performers in twenty-odd roles including muzzled four-year-old Veronica, Pablo the nymphomaniac plumber and Kevin Spacey as the Orange Juice Monster, Arabella’s Revenge is clowning via the Goon Show and the League of Gentlemen.

 

Iszi Lawrence's Wotnot

Iszi Lawrence describes herself as being just on the right side of tasteless, and I can’t argue – after all, who hasn’t occasionally thought about what they’d do to Colin Firth-era Mr Darcy if he’d drowned in that lake?

 

Richard Tyrone Jones has a Big Heart

“My heart,” muses performance poet, quondam comedian and heart failure sufferer Richard Tyrone Jones, “rebelled against me like a cardiac Syria.”

 

1 Mighty Craic Comedy Hour

There aren’t many comedians who are happy to have a full and frank discussion about the
comments they’ve noticed under a YouPorn video, but Henry Ginsberg appears to have sunk into such a pit of despair that none of it matters any more.

 

Snipe Highlights

Some popular articles from past years

  1. The five spookiest abandoned London hospitals
  2. Punk brewery just as sexist and homophobic as the industry they rail against
  3. Could red kites be London's next big nature success story?
  4. Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
  5. Random Interview: Eileen Conn, co-ordinator of Peckham Vision
  6. Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
  7. Diary of the shy Londoner
  8. Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
  9. The best church names in London, and where they come from
  10. Peter Bayley has worked for 50 years as a cinema projectionist in East Finchley