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I have to accept that I'm not going to do a proper post, really... I've recently been to see Pirates of Penzance (fun, very small cast- one sister, one cousin, one aunt (aunt doubled by Dick Deadeye(!))- good staging mostly created from ropes by the cast at the beginning, good principals, choruses not brilliantly enunciated), Jeremy Hardy (very good) and Chris Addison (very good). Hardy and Addison made an interesting comparison, seeing both on a large empty stage at the Playhouse; both do a nice mix of political and personal stuff, Addison with more daftness included, but the styles are utterly different. Hardy pretty much stood behind the mike, occasionally moving one hand slightly or smiling wryly, while Addison ran around like a mad thing, waving his hands, sinking to his knees in dispair, demonstrating how he tore a ligament chasing a Sainsbury's delivery, or impersonating chickens.

Addison will have a DVD out for Xmas... 2011. Pout.