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The Big Review: As You Like It, Lion & Unicorn Theatre

By on April 30, 2012 in Big Review, Theatre

Custom Practice, the London-based theatre company who aim to create ‘arresting productions of new and classical works’, have come up trumps with this engaging modern dress romp through a work first performed around 1600, and which has always had mixed reactions from critics. Its story is slight, for sure: two cousins, Rosalind and Celia, banished [...]

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Why It Matters: Giant Olive at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre

By on March 12, 2012 in Theatre, Why It Matters

Tucked away in leafy Gaisford Street above the Lion and Unicorn pub is a vital organ, kept alive by a passion for storytelling, and a dedicated team of hardworking theatre practitioners and associated artists. It’s called Giant Olive, and I founded it back in 2008. My name’s George Sallis and I’m Kentish Town born and [...]

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The World According to Sallis

By on July 1, 2011 in Hidden Gem, Theatre

George Sallis as Pierre in Nabokov’s ‘Invitation to a Beheading’, 2009 We don’t make a habit of upsetting folk here at The Kentishtowner, but one local whose nose was put out of joint the other week was George Sallis, artistic director of Giant Olive Theatre Company. Yes, you may remember he was the one who, [...]

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“Kentish Town is up and coming.”

By on June 17, 2011 in News, Shopping

OK, so we tweeted this one yesterday but Mrs Kentishtowner still hasn’t stopped laughing – in fact, a little bit of wee has come out – so we thought we’d run with it again, in case you missed it: “Kentish Town is up and coming. There’s a Costa here now, a Pret A Manger, and [...]

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