London Bridge Festival
looking for a laugh -Marcus Brigstocke prepares to talk to God at The London Bridge Festival
comedians, actors and bards will provide two weeks of entertainment as the streets that inspired Shakespeare, Chaucer and Dickens open their bars and theatres for new and established acts.
Festival comedy includes , Stephen K Amos, Brendon Burns, the Funny Women Awards and Shappi Khorsandi. As well as comedy, The Southwark Playhouse is showing a series of plays around the
subject of Secrets, and there’ll even be sea-shanties and street-songs aboard the Golden Hinde.
Marcus Brigstocke is struggling with the
notion of God. "There's probably no God. But I wish there was. I've got some things I need to ask him," says the comedian who is preparing to take his hotly anticipated show God Collar on tour this autumn and appears with his Edinburgh review at the London Bridge Festival on 11th of July (Belushi’s,
Festival director Greg Tallent is delighted that so many performers are taking part over the two weeks. He’s especially pleased that the festival will give many new acts the chance to shine, including at
the London New Comedy Award 2009, which is free to watch and enter (with donations
only sought to buy the comics a drink at the interval).
The London Bridge Festival launches with a truly unique performanceof Zipcar Theatre In a Car involving three young and exciting directors, 12 cars (provided by Zipcar)and 24 performers. Lasting for an hour, it’s a mixture of plays, physical theatre, cabaret and comedyperformed in the front seat of a cars.
The London Bridge Festival runs from the July 10th – 25th
http://www.londonbridgefestival.com/showsandevents/
Author: A Green
Date: June 2009
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