Tag Archive: Royalty Theatre

Mar 15

FRINGE: Tom Green Live – Royalty Theatre – 4K

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For those of you who don’t remember, Tom Green was the vacant face of MTV about 10 years ago, he was the pre-cursor to Jackass and other ‘gross-out’ comedy and starred in a handful of Hollywood flops.  Tens years later after a battle with testicular cancer, appearances on Celebrity Apprentice and his own web chat …

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Feb 26

FRINGE: Akmal – Royalty Theatre – 5K

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Comedians are like wine, some never become enjoyable, no matter how long they have been aged, some have a very clear use by date after which they go down the drain and then there are those which age so well, better and better year by year. One of these well aging comedians is Akmal, even …

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Feb 21

FRINGE – Theatre – Shylock – Centre for International Theatre, Royalty Theatre – 4.5K

What makes this piece work so well is the seamless intertwining of an informative history lesson – relating to both the background of the play and the persecution of the Jewish people throughout Europe over the last 2000 years – an intellectual exploration of the Shakespearean text and a comedic psychological portrait of the actor, desperate to prove the importance of his role. 4.5K

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