Spoiler alert: this article contains significant It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia spoilers. Given you are all good people who didn’t watch it illegally and will wait a year for it to come to Netflix, don’t read ahead. I’m going to talk about that scene. The one we didn’t expect, even in a show where the…
Arts
Interview with The Full Monty’s James Redmond
The Full Monty shows at Norwich Theatre Royal from 26th November – 1st December, which marks the end of the first half of the show’s tour. For those of you who don’t know it, The Full Monty is about a group of men from Sheffield who struggle with unemployment when their steelworks shuts down, and…
Travel
Coming to America: The weather outside is frightful
I’ve been watching a lot of Gavin & Stacey at the moment. Firstly because it’s absolutely one of the best British comedies to have ever been made. Second of all, because it reminds me of home. I’ve been called a ‘Pam’ more than once. America is great (not to be confused with make great again)…
Music
Charitable chords: Oxjam Norwich
As the days get shorter and the leaves fall, the possibility of drinking your pint in a beer garden slips away; now seems like a good time to remember all the great things coming up this winter to look forward to. Halloween, bonfire night, selfies at the Christmas tunnel of lights… and Oxjam Music Festival…
Arts
Review: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery
Mischief Theatre – known for their hilarious shows including The Play that Goes Wrong – have taken their new side-splitting show on tour and we here at concrete were lucky enough to see it. The concept of the show is simple; a bank robbery. It has all the things you’d expect; car chases, gun fights,…
Film
Venom: 2018’s Best Comedy?
I’ll say this. It had an effective trailer. In this situation, ‘effective’, does not mean ‘good’ – the sight of an ten-foot slimeboy terrorising a generic criminal by likening him to a ‘turd in the wind’ recalls the cringe-inducing script of a 1990’s kids cartoon – but it does seem to sum up perfectly…
Film
Bring the Martinis Because A Simple Favour is a Trip
“Secrets are like margarine, easy to spread, bad for the heart.” Literally. Paul Feig and Jessica Sharzer’s vivacious adaptation of Darcey Bell’s 2017 addictive novel, A Simple Favour, brings together the famous faces of Anna Kendrick (Pitch Perfect), Blake Lively (The Age of Adelaide) and Crazy Rich Asians breakout Henry Golding to produce a two punch…
Arts
Bouncers and Shakers: “two amazing productions elevated the bar for Minotaur”
Minotaur Theatre Company’s comedy double bill Bouncers and Shakers features two plays by John Godber and John Godber and Jane Thornton respectively. The night kicked off with a production of Shakers, a play about four girls working in a cocktail bar, followed by Bouncers (plot, self-explanatory). Considering the title structure, I was surprised to find…
TV
Jack and Michael Whitehall, the new Netflix double act?
Jack Whitehall has been gracing our screens for nearly 10 years now, starting off with his break-out hosting gig on Celebrity Big Brother’s Big Mouth (little known bit of trivia). He started stand-up straight out of college when he was 17, and since then has appeared in the likes of Fresh Meat, Bad Education and…
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