YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Cabaret Comedy Festivals Magic Theatre
Tuesday 1 April 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Wednesday 26 March 2014
TODAY IN LONDON, TW’s tipped events feature April Fools Lucy Beaumont and Phill Jupitus (him, twice), magic man Ali Cook, solo dramatist Ira Brand, and a good old Alan Aykbourn stage-play…
COMEDY: Fools’ Week, Drayton Theatre, 1-5 Apr
Why limit April Fool-ishness to a single day, when you can make the springtime silliness last for five? Exactly. Anyway, getting this irreverently funny mini-fest started this evening are big-man-on-‘Buzzcocks’ Phill Jupitus and BBC Comedy Award-winning Hull girl Lucy Beaumont, with John Hastings, Angela Barnes, Milo McCabe, Carly Smallman and Alex Edelman all set to appear hereafter. Details and tickets here.
THEATRE: A Small Family Business, National Theatre, 1 Apr – 31 May
Alan Ayckbourn’s rowdy comic exposure of entrepreneurial greed and corruption returns to the site of its 1987 premiere. Jack McCracken, a man of principle, takes over his dad-in-law’s family firm, and finds in himself a well of self-interest which reaches a grim climax. Details and tickets here.
THEATRE: First 2014 – A Festival Of Solo Performances, Tristan Bates Theatre, 1-19 Apr
Starting tonight with Ira Brand’s ‘A Cure For Ageing’ – a piercing celebration of life and its inevitable decline – and, by contrast, all-star magician Ali Cook’s ‘The Art Of Astonishment’, this intimate array of one-man shows also has space on its programme later this month for comedians Grainne Maguire, Rosie Wilby, Ivo Graham and Shappi Khorsandi; moving theatre solos from Lucy Hopkins and Yuni Shin; light and heavier-hearted cabaret; and Phill Jupitus posing as Porky The Poet in his first longform prose show. Details and tickets here.
