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

By on March 12, 2012 in Film &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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Lion & Unicorn: Oh my!

By on February 9, 2012 in Drink, Food

OK, so Mrs Kentishtowner finally relented. And not just relented, but positively dragged us down there. Why? Because People Whose Opinions She Trusted have, recently, been raving about the Lion & Unicorn. ‘They’ve removed the suburban curtains and most of those unsightly high tables and chairs,’ she said, with an approving nod, as we stepped [...]

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The World According to Sallis

By on July 1, 2011 in Film &Theatre, Hidden Gem, Kentish Town, Kentishtowner Recommends, Random, 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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First past the post…The Bull & Last

By on May 6, 2011 in Drink, Food

So we intended to do a review of the newly-opened Lion & Unicorn today, but, to be honest, we’re not sure, and haven’t sampled the food or theatre yet, so rather than dismiss it we’ll let it bed in a bit. It’s not that we don’t like the joint: the walled garden, the rather self-consciously [...]

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Did Emma Hamilton really drink in the garden at Heroes?

By on April 15, 2011 in Drink, History, Random

Spring is in the air and new boozers are being birthed in NW5 like sticky lambs. The crumbling Lion and Unicorn, on Gaisford Street, is about to re-emerge as a swanky “food pub” with a refreshed upstairs theatre to boot (a peek through the windows drew a gasp of delight from Mrs Kentishtowner the other [...]

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