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Requiem pour L., Sadler’s Wells. Review by Julia Pascal.

Requiem pour L., Sadler’s Wells. Review by Julia Pascal.

The title Requiem pour L., if spoken aloud, translates as Requiem for her. Who is the anonymous woman that we see dying onscreen as Mozart’s Requiem in D minor, K. 626, is re-scored? 

Hal Cazalet: Play on Words, Crazy Coqs, Zedel, London. Review by Barbara Lewis.

Hal Cazalet: Play on Words, Crazy Coqs, Zedel, London. Review by Barbara Lewis.

To most Britons, P.G. Wodehouse is known as the creator of quaint, comic novels starring the blundering upper class twit Bertie Wooster and his astute valet Jeeves. He also contributed lyrics and stories to a wealth of musicals and his step great grandson, the opera singer Hal Cazalet, who as a child slept in a room beneath the Wodehouse archive, tells us he only got to know P.G. Wodehouse’s prose through the song lyrics.

Jay Handley, You want the truth? You can’t handley the truth!

Jay Handley, You want the truth? You can’t handley the truth!

In our post-fact world where we drown in other people’s opinions, life as a hard-up, stand-up comedian trying to make a name has got harder. And on the Free Fringe periphery of the Edinburgh Fringe – where artists effectively busk in a tatty room with a few uncomfortable seats and a bucket for contributions as there is no formal entrance free – it has become an even more extreme act of faith.