Review: Friday Night Freakshow

Review: Friday Night Freakshow

Get your freak on with Time Out Live’s Friday Night Freakshow, a potent cocktail of late night variety hosted by the divinely decadent EastEnd Cabaret. If the weather isn’t convincing you that we’re on the cusp of summer, the annual appearance of an upside down...
Review: Backgammon for Beginners

Review: Backgammon for Beginners

It would be simpler if it were just a foreign country. In Backgammon for Beginners, the past is a mythical land of legend, hearsay and conjecture. Taking inspiration from Iranian fairy tales, which traditionally state their unreliability in their very opening line, So...
In Pictures: Prospero’s Tavern

In Pictures: Prospero’s Tavern

Boom Boom Club is one of the most innovative cabaret collectives in the UK. Prospero’s Tavern, their latest production, recreates the plot of Shakespeare’s The Tempest to make Prospero the owner of a mythical pub with live entertainment, mixing theatre an...
Review: Boom Boom Club: Prospero’s Tavern

Review: Boom Boom Club: Prospero’s Tavern

Every new season of Boom Boom Club is a milestone in British cabaret. Since it abandoned a weekly format in 2011 to reinvent itself as a franchise of self-contained performance events, the seminal variety show has experimented with the genre in unusual venues like the...