Christmas cabaret round-up for Evening Standard

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A selection of 10 shows (plus glances at more) playing in London over the 2017 festive season.

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Edinburgh Fringe 2017: Scotsman reviews (pt 1) and other top tips

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Round-up of online reviews so far plus further recommendations

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Meow Meow’s intensified spectacle

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The kamikaze chanteuse on orchestrated chaos at the Royal Festival Hall, Emma Rice’s departure from the Globe, and working with Barry Humphries

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Edinburgh 2016: end-of-Fringe round-up

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A mammoth report on what I saw and wrote at this year’s festival.

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Edinburgh 2016: mid-Fringe round-up

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It’s been a busy Fringe so far. Here are some of the best cabaret (or cabaret-adjacent) shows at Edinburgh 2016.

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Meow Meow, Spymonkey's Toby Park and The Ungewinster

Christmas cabaret reviews for the Evening Standard

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Links to three Evenings Standard reviews of cabaret shows for Christmas 2014: Mrs Hudson’s Christmas Corker, The Night Before Winterval and Meow Meow: Apocalypse Meow – Crisis is Born

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Ryan Styles at Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, February 2010

How not to screw up audience participation in a cabaret show

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 The relationship between performer and audience is crucial to cabaret: the form is arguably defined by the lack of a fourth wall and the possibility of unplanned collaborations between those on the stage and those off it. Cabaret doesn’t have a monopoly on such things but it’s the only form where they can be taken […]

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