Double bill at Lion & Unicorn: Timely plays for the #metoo Brexit era
Acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe touring company Aulos Productions make their London debut this month with an expanded revival of two shows
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Review: The Corruption of Dorian Gray, Lion & Unicorn Theatre
Oscar Wilde’s novella has inspired a racy night of adult theatre at Kentish Town’s pub playhouse
Review: The Jungle Book, Lion & Unicorn Theatre
The Kipling classic makes for a surprisingly festive afternoon adventure with an excited child
Lion & Unicorn Theatre to stage Go Live, a three week long dance festival
One of Kentish Town’s best kept cultural secrets promises to put contemporary dance in the spotlight over 21 successive nights, starting September 9
Free Weekend? Try our Top 5 Theatre Guide
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Wednesday Picture: Let’s make a K-Town cinema or arts space actually happen!
A cinema? Arts hub? Ideas store? Now is the time to act.
Community Pinboard: A Kentish Town boundary?
1. Why West Kentish Town Matters No Talacre (Kentish Town’s much-fought over ‘Green’)? No Kentish Town City Farm? On Tuesday we attended the first Kentish Town Neighbourhood Forum consultation at St Luke’s Church in Oseney Crescent. We admire everything that the KTNF is trying to achieve, but are bemused that West Kentish Town – NW5 …
The Big Review: As You Like It, Lion & Unicorn 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
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
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, …
