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    • Screening Room Society

    • The Old Vic Tunnels

    • 2011-06-03

    • Comic duo Robin and Partridge inaugurated the Old Vic Tunnels’ Screen Room Society with a night shrouded in secrecy until guests arrived on the night. All we were told is to bring a prop and dress appropriately to swear allegiance to one of four tribes: knights (in which case we had to take a sword), gnomes (beard), explorers (map) or tax inspectors (a packed lunch). As a motley crew of willing patrons, many of whom had gone all out with their fancy dress, arrived at the venue below Waterloo station’s railway tracks, they were ushered into a bar dressed up like a venue hidden deep in a forest. A wry sense of humour was already flowing with free Twiglets littering the place, invitations to fish plastic ducks out of a tiny plastic pond or make chalk drawings on the floor, before we were swept into the performing space and a uniquely quirky night of comedy and cabaret.

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    • The Screening Room Society at The Old Vic Tunnels

    • An innovative evening of interactive comedy and cabaret is coming to The Old Vic Tunnels, its exact details shrouded in secrecy until you’ve committed yourself to join the The Screen Room Society on Friday, June 3rd. Hosted by comedy duo Robin and Partridge, the two curious gentlemen are curating the entertainment which will also feature award-winning comic Scotsman Phil Kay and musical comedienne extraordinaire Rachel Parris.

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    • Robin & Partridge talk bark wombs and December Nights: Tales from the Albion

    • 2010-12-06

    • The highly-anticipated December Nights: Tales From The Albion at The Old Vic Tunnels is less than two weeks away and already sold out. London’s most unique performance space is readying itself for the arrival of a plethora of creative minds to come together and recreate the best of Englishness throughout the ages. I caught up with comic double act Robin & Partridge who will host a bandstand full of live performance to find out more.

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    • Russell Kane

    • 2010-11-02

    • Russell Kane only gave up his day job a few years ago. Now he’s won the Edinburgh Comedy Award and flies First Class. Makes us sick, frankly. But we managed to swallow our jealousy and catch up with the comic to talk about baboons and Bacardi Breezers.

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    • Scorched

    • The Old Vic Tunnels

    • 2010-09-21

    • Powerful drama Scorched arrives at The Old Vic Tunnels with a string of plaudits since its debut in France in 2003 at Incendies. Since then its been adapted into English, Spanish, Japanese and Romanian with a film to follow. It’s a dark, brooding mystery of a mother of twins who leaves a cryptic quest for her twin offspring to complete in her will. It’s twin narrative strands of present day and a unnamed war in the Middle East draw on writer Wajdi Mouawad’s childhood of being brought up in a Lebanese village when a civil war broke out, making for a personal element which helps drive the authenticity so essential to the play and emphasised by Dialogue Productions’ impressive use of this unique creative space.

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    • Dark Carnival: Notes from Underground

    • The Old Vic Tunnels

    • 2010-09-07

    • On a late summer night, The Old Vic Tunnels invited Londoners to enter their lair to explore a collision of culture as they melded art, circus, theatre, music and poetry into two nights of encounters in the shadows and performances in the arches. The unique collaboration made possible by the vision of the in-house team and its dedicated volunteers and interns, dubbed Dark Carnival: Notes from Undergound, enabled the audience to decide what they wanted to see and how involved they wanted to get, with a an atmosphere of intrigue and excitement throughout. Mike Barnard and his intrepid explorers took the step into the carnival.

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    • Dark Carnival: Notes from Underground, The Old Vic Tunnels

    • For two nights the Old Vic Tunnels in London will play host to an array of artistic talent featuring theatre, film, visual arts and installation, spoken word, interactive performance, dance, music, circus and cabaret. Beneath the train tracks of Waterloo station on Friday, August 20th and Saturday, August 21st enter a space where you will be able to explore the atmospheric space ofthe tunnels, becoming part of the Dark Carnival world for a fleeting moment, a few minutes or the whole night.

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    • Innovative theatre at The Old Vic Tunnels

    • Trains are arriving at Waterloo Station on tracks held up by creativity as The Old Vic injects culture into the tunnels beneath the tracks. The evolving space has already been the setting for theatre, music events, art exhibitions and the premiere of the Banksy film Exit Through the Gift Shop, while the current production Ditch makes use of the surroundings with installations setting the scene as you enter. With a diverse programme planned over the coming months, there’s also the opportunity to get involved with a unique volunteer scheme and internships available to become part of the Old Vic Tunnel community and get real experience in this fascinating space. Mike Barnard found out more.

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    • Yves Saint Laurent exhibition in Petit Palais, Paris

    • The Fondation Pierre Berge-Yves Saint Laurent and the Petit Palais, Musee des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, present the first comprehensive retrospective of the work of Yves Saint Laurent, the major figure in the fashion of the second half of the twentieth century.