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broadwaybaby.com | Roger Kay
By Roger Kay | 13th May 2025 | ★★★ "Are you having a stroke?" Not exactly what inventor Jim (Paul Richards), pitching an idea to his long-term girlfriend Alison (Ruby Florence), wants to hear. But this does not transpire to be Alison’s most devastating line to Jim; it is, however, a microcosm of the personality gap between the pair.
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3 days ago | 
broadwaybaby.com | Roger Kay
By Roger Kay | 13th May 2025 | ★★★★ How well can you ever really know anyone? How much do we fundamentally understand about someone, and what are the masks and defences we all employ? A triumphant and challenging smorgasbord of theatrical activityA stage solely occupied by a keyboard and microphone greets us at the BN1 Arts Centre.
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Feb 15, 2025 | 
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Member-only storyRogerKay·Follow3 min read·--In 1982, I dropped out of the workforce, took a bicycle with 40 lbs. of pack, and went to Europe for what turned out to be three years. During the second summer, I was traveling eastward from a town called Angoulême, outside Bordeaux in west central France. That route took me through the Massif Central, which, although it may sound massive, is in fact a group of smallish mountains in the middle of the country.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
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View of the Source du Dessoubre from the hotel balcony (l) and morel mushrooms (r)Member-only storyRogerKay·Follow3 min read·--This is a tale about, among other things, morels, those dark and tasty mushrooms that cost maybe fifty bucks a pound, if you can get them fresh, and about that amount for a mere ounce when dried. It is also a story about a long-forgotten hotel where I once stayed. Forthwith:When I was bicycling across Europe in 1982, alone, with 40 lbs.
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Oct 27, 2024 | 
broadwaybaby.com | Roger Kay
By Roger Kay | 27th Oct 2024 | ★★★★★ There is a plethora of influences and pressures on the modern-day woman. She will be bombarded by advertising, which can be subtly and iteratively undermining. Pretty much any website she uses, either through necessity or choice, demands acceptance of terms and conditions.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
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Simple model for looking at likely economic scenarios under different election outcomesRogerKay·Follow4 min read·--We are living in odd times. We find ourselves tossed from one calamity to the next, not knowing what to expect. But there is a certainty ahead of us in the next month, the Presidential election, which will definitely occur, but the outcome of which could go a number of distinctly different directions.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
broadwaybaby.com | Roger Kay
By Roger Kay| 18th Aug 2024|★★★★ Playfight is a visceral, fast-moving production from Theatre Uncut, that relentlessly demands your attention from the first moment to the last. It is the innate chemistry and comic timing between the three that has the audience hold their breath. It is performed in Summerhall’s Roundabout arena in the round, a slick choice. The set consists mainly of a ladder, representing a tree, perhaps the only constant in the lives of our three protagonists.
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Aug 17, 2024 | 
broadwaybaby.com | Roger Kay
By Roger Kay| 17th Aug 2024|★★★★ The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 more or less brought to an end a dark period of contemporary UK history. Conaghan is a highly accomplished performer...a gifted and charismatic story -tellerThe Troubles was the term given to what was regarded by many people as a three decades long, low level, civil war, the status of Northern Ireland being at stake. Opposite factions held that it should revert to Irish rule or continue as part of the UK.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
broadwaybaby.com | Roger Kay
By Roger Kay| 15th Aug 2024|★★★★★ A waiter pours a glass of wine for a restaurant customer. It hardly seems like a philosophical matter, but not everything is as it seems here. This is a masterclass of clowning, comedy, physical theatre and absurdismThe set is simple: a table, arranged with cutlery with a pristine white tablecloth, with a solitary chair. There is a waiter’s station stage left and two spare chairs.
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Aug 14, 2024 | 
broadwaybaby.com | Roger Kay
By Roger Kay| 14th Aug 2024|★★★★ There’s a band set up on stage, but this is no ordinary music show. It’s snazzy cardigan time!The writing is sharp, the staging always demanding your attentionSteve Coogan’s comic creation Alan Partridge had various outings on radio and television, but Partridge’s post-BBC era saw the addition of his downtrodden personal assistant, Lynn Benfield.
