Points of view: theatre, comedy and news
Comedy streaming service Dropout today released the trailer for the new season of their fan favorite actual play series, Dimension 20. The new season, Gladlands, is set to premiere January 7th with episodes dropping every Wednesday.
Rosalie Minnitt has announced a new UK tour of her cult comedy hit, Clementine. Partnering with exciting theatre and comedy producers Liebenspiel, the tour will be stopping off at some of the UK’s most vibrant theatre venues between January and June, 2026.
Comedy streaming service Dropout today announced the return of the fan favorite interview improv series, Very Important People, for its third season.
To use words like delightful, hilarious, immersive - despite being accurate - would be to greatly undersell Nick Helm’s No One Gets Out Alive. The best descriptor would therefore be something along the lines of ‘what if a car crash was positive?’ in the way that the show itself is indescribably forceful and chaotic as well as the fact that we just simply can’t look away from Helm’s performance.
In Bog Witch, Bryony Kimmings attempts to create a theatrical spectacle, with all the flash that we associate and expect from a production of this nature. The issue arises when we peel it all back and ask the question, “So what?” And in answering that question, it becomes clear very quickly that the emperor really does not have any clothes and all the tech and clever storytelling is just a surface-level mirage.
There is a slight element of risk to Ben Pope’s The Cut. If a comedian is talented enough and crafts a joke well, the risk of taking a big swing with a punchline or topic can pay off in a very major way. The Cut is an example of when the opposite happens.
Comedy streaming service Dropout today announced their new standup comedy competition series Crowd Control. Hosted by Jacquis Neal and voiced by Chioke I'Anson, each episode will feature a trio of comedians as they compete against one another with no pre written material allowed.
Marjolein Robertson is a storyteller. Yes, a comedian and a fantastic one at that, but one who weaves intricate threads of comedy, folklore and story together into something far greater, for the stories she tells either about her own life or from folklore are no mere anecdotes. They speak to a deeper feeling of truth and heart that surpasses that term. And Robertson really illustrates her gift for story in Lein.
There are some comedy duos and shows that just radiate humour and good-naturedness, overpowering any other emotion that we may be feeling at the moment to the point of entrapping us in their comedy. Lianna Holston and Michael McPheat are such a pair, whose energy and chemistry just project outwards and from the moment that Starter Pack begins we are in their thrall.
The saying ‘the road to hell is paved with good intentions’ couldn’t be more applicable to Jack Grossman and Zoe Wohlfeld’s A Night Of Drama. What starts off as a perhaps Renaissance-esque, Athenian public square practice of bringing a meritocratic, Speakers’ Corner element to theatre quickly devolves into a Hobbesian thought experiment that perhaps best exemplifies why Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan is still very applicable.
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