Theatre Shows
David Hoyle's Licking Wounds (January 2010)
David Hoyle's Licking Wounds has now finished it's run at the Royal Vaxhall Taven
The show featured special guests including Boy George and Noel Fielding
Watch this space for highlights from the show including an exclusive interview with creative anarchists Noel Fielding.
More info at www.theavantgardealliance.com
Kim Noble Will Die (December 2009)
Kim Noble's sell-out show has returned to Soho theatre until January 9th after a critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh fringe festival.
"Show of the decade"
****** Time Out
"FIVE comedy stars don't even touch the sides of what this breath-stopping show deserves."
***** Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
"Kim Noble’s first show for five years is the most remarkable thing I’ve seen this year... People blather on about the cutting edge of comedy. Well, for once, here it is."
**** Dominic Maxwell, The Times
"The show's construction – its skilful refusal to let the audience settle, its interplay between live and recorded action – implies artifice. But emotionally, it's excruciatingly raw."
Brian Logan, The Independant
"His show is part comedy, part performance art, part explicit pornography and part mental illness. It is genuinely and deeply unsettling, and makes us interrogate our laughter more completely than any show I have ever seen, whilst still eliciting that laughter."
*** Ian Shuttleworth, The Financial Times
"A new level of self-exposure has been reached with the artist and comedian Kim Noble's show"
**** Brian Logan, The Guardian
"The entire experience is genuinely unsettling, but punctured with coruscating flashes of wit."
Steve Bennett, Chortle
MORE INFO: www.sohotheatre.com/pl1779.html
Laughter Shock 5 (October 2009)
Extreme comedy from the nation’s newest stand-ups
The Brown Eyed Boy LaughterShock Tour climaxed on October 2nd at 10pm on the Soho Theatre main stage. It featured stand-up and filmed sketches from 10 of the best new comedians from around the UK, the intention of the night was to provoke response and push the boundaries of taste and decency.
With previous shows including International LaughterShock at The Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh, Extreme Gay and Lesbian LaughterShock at The Wilton’s Music Hall and Multicultural LaughterShock at the Hackney Empire the final show was certainly the funniest and most extreme.
LINE UP:
Eric Lampaert - "Comic Oddity - Delightfully Weird" - Time Out
Daniel Simonsen - Winner of the So You Think You're Funny? new act competition, 2008, and 2008 finalist in the Laughing Horse new act competition.
Caroline Mabey - "A demented hybrid of Alan Partridge and Fawlty Towers" -Bruce Dessau (Critics Choice in the Evening Standard)
Sarah Campbell - Finalist in the 2008 Funny Women competition
Joey Page - "has an instinct for funny" Chortle
Miss London - WINNER of Funny Women 2009
Wade McElwain - Winner of the Funniest New Comedian at Canadian Comedy Awards.
Naz Osmanoglu - "2009 winner of the Amused Moose Laugh-Off competition, and So You Think You're Funny finalist the same year"
Asli Akbay - "a breathless, manic energy mixed with great observational eyes"
Katherine Ryan - WINNER of Funny Women 2008
Laughter Shock Multicultural Showcase (August 2009)
Laughter Shock will be presenting its multicultural live and pre-recorded sketch show in August. More information will follow shortly.
Laughter Shock 4 (August 2009)
Laughter Shock 4 featured at this years Edinburgh fringe! We filmed 14 edgiest International stand-ups at this year’s festival as selected by Brown Eyed Boy. It featured the best of their sets live, inter-cut with screened sketches shot by the comics the week before. It was NOT For The Squeamish!!
Showcase (May 2009)
The first of the Brown Eyed Boy new talent showcases was a great success and we would like to thank the ten comics for all their hard work.
After three months of exhaustive cross country scouting Brown Eyed Boy found a fantastic new bill of stand up comics and comic performers who all performed at the first of our new, monthly live showcases along with showings of all the brilliant new filmed sketches we have produced with them.
Watch this space for details of the next showcase!
My Brother And I Are Porn Stars (April 2007)
Think Romeo and Juliet without the happy ending.
In our opinion this was the best show at the Edinburgh Festival last year. We loved it so much that Soho Theatre and I are flying them out from New Zealand for a 4 night run from April 11th-14th in the main space of The Soho Theatre as part of the Spill festival. And because it’s Easter they’ve written some new material about Christian porno. Prepare to be seduced and horrified in equal measure!
Toju – Live and Unleashed (February 2007)
We have co-produced 3 nights at The Soho Theatre, 8 to 10 February 2007, which translated into 3 hours of kick arse new material and amazing audience interaction. We filmed all 3 nights and are about to edit them into a stand alone dvd.
Laura Solon (August 2005)
Written and performed by Laura Solon. Having discovered this brand new comic 2 years ago Gary Reich directed and produced a live show which we took to the 2005 Edinburgh Festival. We went on to win the most prestigious comedy award in the country - the Perrier. She is only the second woman in 25 years and the first in 10 years to achieve this.
nobleandsilver: getoffme
Written and performed by Kim Noble and Stuart Silver. Having discovered this double act in 1999 I directed and produced a live show which I took to the 2000 Edinburgh Festival. We went on to win the most prestigious comedy award for debut acts in the country - the Perrier Newcomer. We went on to collaborate on their E4 series and numerous further live shows, including the 2005's sell-out Soho Theatre show. We are currently in discussion with Soho Theatre about a new production which they will specially commission
Andrew Clover's Celebrity Birthday
Starring Andrew Clover and co-devised with him, this was a spectacularly anarchic way of doing a chat show by recreating 2 guest's 6 year-old birthday parties and getting them to compete head-to-head for presents. A run in Edinburgh and at the Soho theatre in London proved deeply satisfying. Guests included Stephen K Amos and Dan Clark