Five hundred years ago, Peckham was green and pleasant. By the 1980s and 1990s, when two of its most famous fictional characters Del Boy and Rodney Trotter were plying their dodgy wares, even the pigeons wanted to be elsewhere, or so Rodney tells us.
comedy
Any story-line involving a single woman is inherently more dramatic than a narrative of a single man because of biology’s cruel deadlines.
D A Prince applauds Keith Hutson’s poetic tributes to music hall performers
Low-tech, unforced and innocent, the Chipping Norton panto lives up to the programme note’s promise to provide “an escape from the disposable pop culture that surrounds our children”.
This is a hugely funny spoof on creating a play for the Edinburgh Festival. It is a mixture of boulevard comedy, clowning and absurdism.
Wendy Klein enjoys Keith Hutson’s artful recapturing of the atmosphere of Music Hall
By Michael Bartholomew-Biggs • books, comedy, poetry reviews • Tags: books, poetry, Wendy Klein