YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Comedy Musicals Theatre
Monday 29 September 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Tuesday 23 September 2014
And the LDN-based events the ThisWeek team is tipping today are…
COMEDY: Sheeps – Wembley Previews | The Invisible Dot | 29 Sep – 4 Oct
Sprightly sketch three-piece Sheeps – that’s Daran Johnson, Liam Williams, and Alastair Roberts – work on the (imaginary) premise that they’re practising ahead of a (not real) show at Wembley Stadium. So this involves them repeatedly binning and re-inventing the same aquarium-based scenario in a variety of styles, and eventually picking apart a) each other and b) the very nature of what makes good comedy. Details and tickets here.
MUSICAL: Urinetown | Apollo Theatre Shaftesbury | 29 Sep – 24 Jan
Flowing on over to the West End following its springtime British premiere at St James Theatre, it’s wunderkind director Jamie Lloyd’s twist on the slick Tony-winning anti-musical ‘Urinetown’. Starring ex-‘Corrie’ hottie Richard Fleeshman (he as dashing everyman/toilet attendant Bobby Strong) and Olivier-nominated actress Jenna Russell (she as Bobby’s boss) imagines a dark, water-short world in which WCs are monopolised by a rich tycoon. Details and tickets here.
THEATRE: Sleepwalk Collective – Karaoke | Battersea Arts Centre | 29 Sep – 18 Oct (pictured)
In a strange case of a Saturday night sing-along gone “catatonically deadpan, gratuitously vapid and joyously strung out”, the ThreeWeeks-acclaimed Sleepwalk Collective’s ‘Karaoke’ follows a man and woman falling in an odd, awkward kind of love as the autocue rolls. Details and tickets here.
