Burger van owner, Shooting Stars panellist, and stand-up comic Angelos Epithemiou took time out from his busy schedule to speak to Paul Fleckney about everything from his Oscar ambitions to Tony Blair, ahead of an appearance at Outside the Box.
He’s a rookie, he’s a comedy rapper, and he has more claims to fame than Bill Shakespeare – that’s right, it’s Doc Brown, who will be appearing at the Class Comedy night at Thames Ditton’s Angel Inn on Wednesday. He spoke to Paul Fleckney.
One of the most talked about theatre debuts at Edinburgh Fringe 2008, and the most popular of BAC’s Masque of the Red Death commissions - which hid away brilliant new theatre acts in its darkest corners, waiting to be discovered by the roaming punters - is Paper Cinema.
A new season of high quality evenings of classical music discussion is upon us, with the Putney Music sessions returning for its 2008/9 season.
Putney Theatre Company will start its autumn season with a production of Mammals, by renowned actress Amelia Bullmore, to be staged in the round. Productions in the round are a rare occurrence as they present challenges to cast and director alike, but the reward is an intimate and compelling theatrical experience for the audience.
If the Edinburgh Festival is Christmas Day, with new shows being unwrapped and presented by the hour, then September onwards is one long Boxing Day, when we all get to play with these new toys and eventually get bored with them, by which time it’s August again.
It isn’t just music festivals that have proliferated in the past five or so years, literary festivals have become increasingly popular as well, and marquees packed with interested bookworms have become part of the British summer. At the expense of sunshine, it seems.
Like some kind of pirhouetting, female, mousey prodigal son, kids’ favourite Angelina Ballerina returns to New Wimbledon Theatre for two nights, having had her smash hit show debut in Wimbledon a year ago.
It is about time Tooting Bec Common was taken by the scruff of the neck and made it into a playground for the senses one summer weekend, and that is exactly what has happened, with the inaugural Balham and Tooting Carnival taking place this weekend.
When we reported on St Luke’s Music Society’s new season a few weeks ago we mentioned opera singer Willard White and violinist Nicola Benedetti as potential highlights.
