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End of Fringe Report Drinks

As you may know, Fringe Report closes for ever on its 10th anniversary, which is Thursday 12 July 2012.

We’re inviting all our friends and colleagues to drinks at 19:30 at Henry’s in Covent Garden, details below. If you can be in London that night, we’ll look forward to seeing you there.

WHEN
Thursday 12 July 2012 at 19:30.
WHERE
Henry’s Café Bar
5-6 Henrietta Street,
WC2E 8PS

A Secular Mystery Play in Brunswick Square

Saturday 14 July, 2.00 – 6.00pm. Brunswick Square, London WC1N

An echo of Bloomsbury’’s radical and creative heritage, the Bloomsbury Mystery Play will be a living tableaux of costume, pageantry and song conceived by artists J&K / Janne Schäfer and Kristine Agergaard with Neal Brown and Hilary Koob-Sassen taking place on and around a sculptural platform created by Danish artist FOS.

This event is organised by Camden Arts Centre in the spirit of Bruce Lacey’s ritual performance works of the 1980s and to accompany his exhibition.

A secular mystery, in Brunswick Square

As a theatrical form, mystery plays were traditionally used to embellish biblical stories but the Bloomsbury Mystery Play will narrate a more secular journey through ideologies of contemporary living; the rituals of daily life, our interactions with others and the possibilities for arranging the world around us. This is an eccentric celebration of the peculiar and the visionary: a platform for voices crying out how things might be.

No ticket required.

More information is available at: http://www.camdenartscentre.org/whats-on/view/eve-bl-14

Edinburgh Preview: Les Dennis in Jigsy

Upstairs at the Gatehouse: 28/29 July only

Remember Ken Dodd? Tommy Cooper? Mick Miller? Jigsy does.

Over the last thirty years he’s worked with them all – and he’ll tell you the stories to prove it. From the laughs down the pub to the horror stories of when it goes wrong on stage, Jigsy was there – permanent pint in hand.

With sweat, smoke and failure clinging to his faded dinner jacket, he now works the dying Liverpool club circuit.This is Jigsy’s story: reliving the glamour and grit of his younger days, he now broods on the success he might have had. But despite it all he keeps on getting back up on stage.The audiences might be dwindling, but Jigsy always has a gag that sends them home laughing.

Tony Staveacre’s blisteringly funny new play stars Les Dennis.

www.jigsylive.co.uk.

Saturday 28th at 8.00pm. Sunday 29th July at 4.00pm. Tickets £14 (concs £10)

 

Three hours of Gin. This Saturday. Bloomsbury.

Celebrate Richard Barnett’s book The Dedalus Book of Gin on this guided walk into the darker side of Enlightenment London.

Eighteenth-century London was awash with cheap, fiery gin. William Hogarth and Henry Fielding railed against it; politicians legislated against it; doctors blamed it for destroying the nation. But what was the truth behind the epidemic of depravity? Celebrate Richard Barnett’s book The Dedalus Book of Gin on this guided walk into the darker side of Enlightenment London. This tour of the historical gin hotspots of Soho and Covent Garden, ends with a book-signing and a glass of gin at Treadwell’s Bookshop. Tickets include a copy of The Dedalus Book of Gin and a complimentary glass of gin. The event is supported by Hendrick’s.

30 June 2012 at 2:45 pm

Duration: 3 hours

Treadwell’s Books
33 Store Street
Bloomsbury
London
WC1E 7BS
0207 240 8906
www.treadwells-london.com/

Edinburgh Barge

Magical Comedy Tour?

Reginald D. Hunter, Cardinal Burns and Jenny Eclair are among comedians who will travel from London to Edinburgh by canal – performing gigs along the way.The boat sets off from London today and will make stop-offs in Cookham, Henley-on-Thames, Oxford, Stone, Manchester, Glasgow and Falkirk before arriving in Edinburgh for the Fringe.

Also taking part are Sam Simmons, Jarred Christmas, Idiots of Ants, Andre Vincent, Tim FitzHigham and Justin Moorhouse.

Details of gigs will be announced online, and progress will be tracked via videos, podcasts and blogs.

Read more: www.chortle.co.uk

Overseas Writers: BBC Radio Playwriting Competition

The International Radio Playwriting Competition is run by the BBC World Service and the British Council, in partnership with Commonwealth Writers and is now in its 23rd year.

It is a competition for anyone resident outside Britain, to write a 53-minute radio drama for up to six characters.

There are two categories: one for writers with English as their first language and one for writers with English as their second language.

The two winners will come to London and see their play made into a full radio production, which will then be broadcast on the BBC World Service.

They will also each receive a £2,000 prize and there are certificates for runners-up.

The play must be in English, unpublished and must not have been previously produced in any medium.

Whether you’re experienced, new, or somewhere in between, BBC World Service want to hear from you.

Deadline: 31st July 2012