Rachel Mars has always relied on humour - in her latest solo performance, she searches beyond the gags. Turning the spotlight on the inner workings of comedy, The Way You Tell Them interrogates the desire and, sometimes uncontrollable, compulsion to be funny. What are we scared of? Where does the responsibility lie when going for a laugh?
Gary Naylor sees a revival of the show that made the company's name.
Theatre company Spymonkey joins forces with Kneehigh Artistic Director Emma Rice to bring their idiosyncratic comic surrealism to bear on the quintessential Greek tragedy for OEDIPUSSY, which runs Tuesday 10 - Saturday 21 April, 2012, at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Theatre company Spymonkey joins forces with Kneehigh Artistic Director Emma Rice to bring their idiosyncratic comic surrealism to bear on the quintessential Greek tragedy for OEDIPUSSY, which runs Tuesday 10 - Saturday 21 April, 2012, at the Lyric Hammersmith.
This June the Lyric Hammersmith is taking over Lyric Square to present a month of exciting and innovative work in the open air.
The Lyric Hammersmith aims to produce work that is provoking, entertaining, popular, eclectic, messy, contradictory and diverse. We want to be at the heart of our community as well as being internationally recognised.
The Lyric Hammersmith aims to produce work that is provoking, entertaining, popular, eclectic, messy, contradictory and diverse. We want to be at the heart of our community as well as being internationally recognised.
The Lyric Hammersmith aims to produce work that is provoking, entertaining, popular, eclectic, messy, contradictory and diverse. We want to be at the heart of our community as well as being internationally recognised.
The Lyric Hammersmith aims to produce work that is provoking, entertaining, popular, eclectic, messy, contradictory and diverse. We want to be at the heart of our community as well as being internationally recognised.
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