Pleasance Islington Announces November 2009-January 2010 Listings

Pleasance Islington Listings November 2009 - January 2010 Rob Rouse: My Family and the Dog that Scared Jesus

Comedy

Thursday 19 November, 8pm

As seen on 8 out of 10 cats, Friday Night Project. The welcome return of Britian's best loved stand ups. Rob takes a journey through his adult life, becoming a father, and owning the horniest, most antisocial dog you will ever hear about.

'Eye-wateringly hilarious' **** The List

'Just go and see it...' **** The Sunday Times

'Left the audience in a giggling slobbering heap' **** Edinburgh Festival Magazine

Tickets:

£6

Tmesis

Physical Theatre

Saturday 21 November - Sunday 22 November

Striking visuals, acrobatics, movement and music combine in this beautiful ancient Greek story of the origin of love and the reason why we search of our other half.

Tmesis is based on Aristophanes speech from Plato's Symposium about the origin of love. It takes you back to the time where there were three sexes; the man the woman and the hermaphrodite. these eight limbed creatures with two heads and their ocnflict with the Gods is a mesmerising evolutionary journey from the ancient Greek years to modern man.

Tickets: £11 (£9)

LOL

Theatre

Rosalind Adler

Saturday 21 November, 8pm

Written and performed by Rosalind Adler

'Lovely- funny, moving and perfect' Clive Evans NICE Pictures.

Lucinda eats men for breakfast - if they're lucky; Sarah's ready for commitment - and even married Mags is curious. Internet dating in the noughties.

Tickets: £9(£7)

Ginger and Black: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Harold

Comedy

Sunday 22 November 8pm

E4 and BBC3's dark musical duo tell a tale about what a boy did when Hitler was around. It will be done using jokes, songs and some enchanted props.

**** Fest

**** Three Weeks

Tickets: £6

Crash Test Comedy

Comedy
Monday 23 November 2009 8:00pm

Idiots of Ants host this once a month sketch, stand-up, music and character comedy night where the best acts on the London circuit 'Crash Test' their most recent material.

Tickets: £6

Rogue Males
Comedy
Adam Riches
Tuesday 24 & Thursday 26 November 8pm
Following on from the success of the last year's Alpha Males, Adam Riches delivers another collection of questionable characters all teetering on the brink. Total sell-out 2009.

Tickets: £6

Tom Conti in ‘Jesus, My Boy'
Followed by Tom Conti Talking with the Audience
Theatre
Tuesday 24 - Sunday 29 November

Tom Conti stars in a comedy about fathers everywhere.

Jesus My Boy stars Tom Conti as a feisty Joseph recounting the coming of the Messiah in a hilariously refreshing intimate play written by comedian John Dowie.

Tickets: £15(£12.50)

Kiosk of Champions
Comedy
Wednesday 25 November 8pm
A stripped-down sketch show from two stand up comedians. Richard Sandling and Stuart Goldsmith are proud to present the sequel to their award winning 2008 extravaganza!

Tickets: £6

The Mothwokfantastic
Comedy
Friday 27 November 8pm
Silly silliness for you to point and laugh at. Daniel Rigby presents sketch, character and musical comedy. Winner of the Laughing Horse New Act of the Year Award.

'Sublime and surreal' Chortle

Tickets: £6

Late Night Gimp Fight
Comedy
Saturday 28 November 8pm
The World's first Gimp-based sketch comedy group bring their sell-out Edinburgh Fringe show to London. Come and see why 2009 has been dubbed 'The Year of The Gimp'.

Tickets: £6

Idiots of Ants: This Is War
Comedy
Thursday 3 December to Saturday 5 December 8pm

Following three complete sell-out Edinburgh Festivals, a UK Tour and appearing alongside John Cleese in the Britcom Gala at the Montreal ‘Just For Laughs' Festival, the Ants (BBC1, BBC2, E4, Radio and Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominees) bring their full-length fast-paced brand of sketch-comedy show to Pleasance London.

Tickets: £8 (£7)

Two Episodes of MASH

Comedy

Monday 14 December, 8pm

After a critically acclaimed run at this year's Edinburgh festival, Joe Wilkinson and Diane Morgan are back with Some new sketches for 2010.

Tickets: £5

Laura Solon: Rabbit Faced Story Soup

Comedy

Wednesday 16 December 2009 & Monday 25 January 2010, 8pm

After a two week run at The Soho Theatre in October 2009, Laura Solon will embark on a national tour in Spring 2010.

So... It's all gone tits down at Black Publishing.

Tickets: £5

A Grave Situation

Theatre
Thursday 17 - Wednesday 23 December
The Pleasance's own 'breathtakingly skilful ensemble' (Scotsman), Young Pleasance, present a brilliantly inventive new comedy.

Chocks away for more exciting jolly japes!
Tickets: £10(£8)
School bookings £6 

Room on the Broom

Children's
Tuesday 1 December - Sunday 3 January (not 6, 14, 21 and 25 Dec, 1 Jan) 10.30am and 1.30pm weekdays, 11am and 2pm weekends and holidays.
Based on the book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.
'How The cat purred and how the witch grinned
As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind...'

Songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 3 and up (and their grown-ups), from Tall Stories.
Tickets Weekdays: £9.50 (£8) Weekends and holidays: £10.50 (£9) Family ticket (for 4, max 2 adults): £31. Group discounts also available- please call the Box Office.

delete the banjax
Comedy
Wednesday 27 & Thursday 28 January 8pm
delete the banjax are Caroline May-Jones, Daniel Cook, Gareth Cooper and Samuel Champion.

***** 'Ridiculously funny' RemoteGoat.co.uk
**** Chortle / Three Weeks / EdinburghIsFunny.com

Tickets: £6

Joe Bor: A Study of Embarrassment by a Guy with Two Bumholes
Comedy
Friday 30 January, 8pm
"He is an expert communicator. He has an engaging style of delivery, slipping
skillfully into characters when needs be, and effortlessly spreads good spirits

Tickets: £5

I'll Always Think of You That Way
Comedy Play
Mackenzie & McGuire
Monday 15 - Sunday 21 March, 8pm
Alison loves cake, and needs to get over it. Savannah lives part-time in Sunnydale Rehabilitation Retreat, full-time in her head. They meet somewhere in between.

Tickets:
£8 (£7)

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