Events
UCL Department of Greek and Latin present an amateur production of Oresteia: Parts II and III: Choephori and Eumenides The king of Argos, Agamemnon, has been murdered on his return home from Troy by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. As the wealth and power of the house of Atreus has now passed into their hands, the house itself has become steeped in murder, adultery, human sacrifice and endless intrigue in an ever accelerating course.
Only standing available. Call 020 7388 8822 to book. Due to demand extra dates added on the 14th March and 4th May. At last! Mr. Chris Addison off Bafta Award-winning comedy The Thick of It, In The Loop, Skins and Lab Rats is back with a brand new show of his critically acclaimed stand-up. Daftness! Whimsy! Jokes! Lies! Smartarsery! Flapping about! All present and correct. The best stand-up I’ve seen The Observer
Standing only. Call 020 7388 8822 to book. Here it comes over the brow of the hilarity. It's Tim Vine in a train. Stand back from the platform in case you get hit by a prop. Every carriage is packed full of gags. Can you hear them? Chug chug joke joke, chug chug joke joke. Be on your guard. This train Timinates here. King of the one-liner and star of BBC1 'Not Going Out' tours the country with his brand new stand-up show with support from John Archer. Also on the 7th and 21st February.
UCLU Malaysian Society, in association with UCLU Stage Crew Society present an amateur production: PG18 3 friends and a policeman are forced to work together to escape from the mobs after an accidental witnessing of an assassination. They get chased about under the influence of marijuana; thus reality and hallucination merges together at certain times. Throughout the adventure, the flaws and wonders of Malaysia such as bribery, censorships, streamyx, taxis politics, multiracial community and culture will be portrayed. Tickets £8
UCLU Sri Lankan Society in association with UCLU Stage Crew Society present an amateur production: Spotlight Four young upstarts from different backgrounds are vying against each other to be ….Sri Lanka’s Next Top Superstar. A lucrative acting and modelling contract as well as a part in Rajnikanth’s next film awaits the winner! Will the pressure of the competition be too much for the finalists? What are their real motives for entering? Will they come through the judges’ comments unscathed? And is all really what it seems?
Standing only. Call 020 7388 8822 to book. Here it comes over the brow of the hilarity. It's Tim Vine in a train. Stand back from the platform in case you get hit by a prop. Every carriage is packed full of gags. Can you hear them? Chug chug joke joke, chug chug joke joke. Be on your guard. This train Timinates here. King of the one-liner and star of BBC1 'Not Going Out' tours the country with his brand new stand-up show with support from John Archer. Also on the 7th and 14th February.
UCLU Drama Society in association with UCLU Stage Crew Society present an amateur production of Measure for Measure. 'The Tempter or the Tempted, who sins more?' Measure for Measure: A tale of Power, Greed, Lust and Justice. The UCLU Drama Society return to the Bloomsbury with a slick, streamlined production of Shakespeare's darkest comedy. Tickets £10, concessions £5
UCLU Musical Theatre Society in association with UCLU Stage Crew Society present an amateur production of Oklahoma! UCLU Musical Theatre are back for a second time this year with a show loved the world over. The timeless sparkling story of Curly the Cowboy and his fight for the affections of Laurey has lived on through generations. More than any other show, Oklahoma! was responsible for moving back the boundaries of what was considered possible in a musical comedy. This production promises to be an incredible experience for all ages, with a wealth of classic songs, including "Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' ", "The Surrey With The Fringe On Top", "I Can't Say No", "People Will Say We're In Love" and of course, "Oklahoma!" Tickets £10, £8 concessions and £5 UCL staff and students
UCLU Dance Society in association with UCLU Stage Crew Society present an amateur production: Dynamix. DYNAMIX: The Dance Show- an eclectic fusion of dance styles ranging from hip-hop, break dance and salsa, to stage jazz, classical ballet and the lindy hop.
Extra date added on the 4th May. At last! Mr. Chris Addison off Bafta Award-winning comedy The Thick of It, In The Loop, Skins and Lab Rats is back with a brand new show of his critically acclaimed stand-up. Daftness! Whimsy! Jokes! Lies! Smartarsery! Flapping about! All present and correct. The best stand-up I’ve seen The Observer
UCLU Music Society present University College Opera's production of Genoveva the only opera composed by Robert Schumann, to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth. Genoveva was first performed in June 1850 at the Stadttheater in Leipzig, with Schumann himself conducting. It is based on the medieval legend of Genevieve of Brabant.
The best lecture you ever had, but all splintered and haphazard, like the popular children’s magazine of knowledge, Look and Learn. Like a Show and Tell, with less dinosaurs and more words. And some of those Words will be songs. A whole curriculum of wit and accidental profundity.
If.Comedy Best Newcomer nominee Zoe Lyons brings her all new show to The Bloomsbury Theatre for one night only. In 2008 Zoe was awarded the inaugural DAVE award for Best Joke at the Fringe for a gag that Germaine Greer described as 'astonishingly vicious'. Zoe is, of course, grateful for the compliment and has since appeared on Mock The Week (BBC2), Four Stands Up (Radio 4), Clive Anderson's Chatroom (BBC2) and PMQ with Andy Parsons (Radio Five Live).
Lucy Porter's latest solo show is a witty romp through the history of gold. In these times of recession, gold is prized more highly than ever, as other forms of currency grow worthless. What's so special about gold, and why is it that human beings have long been obsessed with the yellow, shiny stuff? The show will feature live alchemy, a tribute to Mr T. and a very valuable, big gold thing with security guards and everything!
Phil McIntyre Entertainment proudly presents: Pappy's presents a World Record Attempt: 200 Sketches In An Hour (plus bonus sketches and an interval) Fresh from Channel 4 and a critically acclaimed, sell out run at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, "the funniest sketch troupe on the Fringe" (The Scotsman) return to take the UK, and the record books, by storm.
Additional date, 5th May, added due to popular demand. At last! Mr. Chris Addison off Bafta Award-winning comedy The Thick of It, In The Loop, Skins and Lab Rats is back with a brand new show of his critically acclaimed stand-up. Daftness! Whimsy! Jokes! Lies! Smartarsery! Flapping about! All present and correct. The best stand-up I’ve seen The Observer
The London debut of Micky Flanagan's latest show - Spiel. Star of BBC1 and Radio4, Micky is also one of only a handful of comics to perform their own Comedy Central special. "Arguably the funniest comedian in the world... the future of comedy" Frank Skinner "If there was any justice in the world he’s be a huge star" Tim Arthur, Time Out
Eric Bibb performs songs from his album Booker’s Guitar. The first representation that accurately mirrors his magnetic and charismatic acoustic live shows, true to tradition and yet uniquely his own. A travelling musician has a chance encounter in the most unlikely of places with something mystical and powerful, a 1930s vintage Resophonic National steel-body guitar that had belonged to Delta blues legend Booker White. Everything changes and suddenly, everything is up for grabs, and the music – already rich and historically resonant – takes a whole new direction.
Great Comedians Come In Cycles. As seen on Mock the Week, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and 8 out of 10 Cats. "A brilliant comic brain, this stand-up cracks some of the best one liners I've ever heard." The Guardian "One of the funniest comedians in the World." The Late Late Show
As a pianist, composer, arranger and orchestra conductor, Claude Bolling is presently without a doubt one of the most reputed French musicians in the world in different fields from jazz to variety and music for films.
"You can’t carry on storming gigs like this. I can’t do what you can; you need to be out there and on tour." Eddie Izzard Perrier Award nominee and Royal Variety performer, Terry Alderton holds the record for the most consecutive encores at the world famous Comedy Store. He's first call for all the comedy club bookers in the country, but following a little chat with a certain Eddie Izzard he's been persuaded to take to the road.
by Sally Wyatt and Clara Armand an Interanimation Theatre production directed by Clara Armand It all happens during the night of a charity do. A pair of strangers arrive to make people do what they have never planned to do. A tough businessman spends hours dreaming, a feisty streetwise girl, whose main source of income was blackmailing, throws the money she has earned in the sea, and a hitman hits the wrong target.
Dutch superstar, comedian, jazz singer and defender of free speech and probably the most exciting comedian to hit the British Stage in years, Hans Teeuwen returns to London for two extra shows due to public demand. His phenomenally surreal, critical acclaimed cabaret was rated five stars by The Guardian and Metro at last years Fringe and described by Stewart Lee as ..."the best stand-up I've seen in ages"
Django à la Créole is two guitars and double bass weaving sultry rhythms around the soaring clarinet of arguably the current no1 on the instrument, Evan Christopher. The magic comes from the fusion of Gypsy swing with hot rhythms from the streets of New Orleans, the Caribbean and Brazil. Elegant and impassioned, New Orleans-based clarinettist Evan Christopher's style is steeped in the tradition exemplified by early jazz masters such as Sidney Bechet, Jimmie Noone, and Barney Bigard. Together with UK based guitarists David Blenkhorn & Dave Kelbie, and bassist Sebastien Girardot, the quartet celebrates the music of the legendary Django Reinhardt and enlivens swing-era classics with fresh interpretations and virtuosic improvisations.
If you only see one doctor this year, make it Dr Phil... Phil Hammond is a GP, writer, broadcaster and possibly the only comedian to have appeared at a public inquiry. He is Private Eye's medical correspondent and has appeared on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, The Now Show and Countdown. He is rude about everything (politicians, doctors, death, drugs, sex, himself) but in a funny way. Free swabs and sick notes for all.
Join triple If.comedy Award Nominee and co-host of ITV2'S I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here Now! Russell Kane and his Edinburgh 2009 sell-out show 'Human Dressage' returns to the Bloomsbury due to popular demand.
A new internet stand up and sketch show written and performed by the star of BBC2's Fist of Fun and TMWRNJ, Radio 2's "That Was Then This Is Now" and stand up shows including "Talking Cock", "The Headmaster's Son” and "Hitler Moustache". All material generated that week from topical events and what’s been going on in Richard’s ridiculous life. Untested and Uncensored. Some people may find the content offensive. Download for free from iTunes or come and be part of the live audience.
A new internet stand up and sketch show written and performed by the star of BBC2's Fist of Fun and TMWRNJ, Radio 2's "That Was Then This Is Now" and stand up shows including "Talking Cock", "The Headmaster's Son” and "Hitler Moustache". All material generated that week from topical events and what’s been going on in Richard’s ridiculous life. Untested and Uncensored. Some people may find the content offensive. Download for free from iTunes or come and be part of the live audience.
LONDON PREMIERE OF THE ARAB QUARTER AND MERCEDES NIETO Oriental Dreams – Arabian Dance, Music and Poetry is a richly layered theatrical production of passion, great originality and beauty to be held at The Bloomsbury Theatre, London on Saturday 4 September 2010. This very special debut will celebrate new music by eminent composer Chalf Hassan and inspirational choreography by Melanie Norman whose artistry is steadily winning acclaim both in the UK and Cairo. It will also mark the release of The Arab Quarter’s first CD which will be on sale.
Sarah Millican, star of Live at the Apollo, Mock the Week and if.comedy Best Newcomer, announces her debut UK tour. The sweet and filthy Geordie’s stand-up show promises jokes about life, love and what to do when your boyfriend puts a sock on your boob during sex.
