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Reading Time: < 1 minuteRelish theatre company’s Drag revolution Acid’s Reign is a defiant and heartfelt triumph. Starring familiar Drag Race faces Victoria Scone and Scarlett Harlett, alongside the indomitable Gigi Zahir, Jamie Fuxx and Ash Weir, this cast is certainly not one to miss. The show travels through a wonderful selection of original songs, performed with a live band, and each performer offers sensational vocals that would be entirely at home on any west end stage. This is a punchy, highly entertaining method of conveying the show’s urgent call to action in combating the climate crisis and the hypocrisy of mainstream media. 

Reading Time: 2 minutesRoger Prick is back in town, this time launching his brand-new erotic memoir while unveiling some much-needed updates to his literary classics for the modern, “awoken” era. Complete with new and improved illustrations and edits designed to appease the Bechdel test, there is apparently no longer any sexist content in his books. Just don’t buy the old copies second-hand as Prick himself warns, “The sticky pages are your fault.”

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe slightly psychopathic Northern female manager of a customer service environment has never before been captured so astutely in the comedy show format. That’s a Glow Job guarantee.

Reading Time: 2 minutesOn paper, BLISS has all the ingredients of a West End hit. Produced by the powerhouse team behind Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, directed by Tony Award nominee Sheryl Kaller, and boasting a cast stacked with West End performers, expectations were naturally high. On the outside, it looks exceptionally promising.

Reading Time: 2 minutesHannah Platt has been a rising comedian around the UK for a few years now, and one of the first people I wanted to see for a whole hour rather than as another suggestion on Instagram reels. A show about cults, by a comedian who loves joking about being unable to make eye contact? Sounds like a recipe for fun!

Reading Time: 2 minutesHave you ever wanted to see a theatrical hour of comedy with jokes about fraternity hazing rituals, the Hague, and the American civil liberties union? Me neither but Olga Koch weaves them all into a high octane comedy show exploring fear and gender all while sprinkling in some gripping stories and emotional curveballs.