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A-F Above The Stag Theatre
15, Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DD
Tube Victoria
Telephone 0844 478 0030 BLINK!
Devised by Peter Bull and Tim McArthur | Location | Other London | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 14 Jul 09 | | Opens | 15 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 16 Aug 09 | | Closes | 16 Aug 09 | | Time | Tues - Fri 7.30pm, Sat 5.30pm & 8.15pm, Sun 6.30pm | | Performers | | | Director | Peter Bull and Tim McArthur | | Design | Prav Menon - Johansson | | Lighting | Howard Hudson | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Above The Stag Theatre | | Synopsis | A tribute to some of the wonderful shows that closed before you could catch them. Songs from Matador, The Scarlet Pimpernel, The Act, The Rink, Drowsy Chaperone, Ballroom, Silence!, Oscar, Merrily We Roll Along, Ragtime, Metropolis, Side Show, Moby Dick, Steel Pier, Children of Eden, City of Angels, Victor / Victoria and more. | | B/O Price | £10 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | Musical staging - Tim McArthur
Musical director - Debbie Morris |
Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, then North London line to Dalston
Telephone 020 7503 1646 DR KORCJAK'S EXAMPLE
by David Greig | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 30 Jun 09 | | Opens | 2 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 18 Jul 09 | | Closes | 18 Jul 09 | | Time | Mon to Sat at 8pm, plus Sat Mats at 3pm | | Performers | Amaka Okafor, Philip Rham, Craig Vye | | Director | Amy Leach | | Design | Miriam Nabarro | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Tangram Theatre Company presents The Royal Exchange Theatre production | | Synopsis | Dr Januzs Korczak, founder of the Jewish orphanage, finds his pacifist principles pushed to the limit by the Nazi regime and the arrival of Adzio, a boy who believes in fighting back. | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *in Studio 1
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Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, then North London line to Dalston
Telephone 020 7503 1646 LAMENT FOR MEDEA, A
Devised by Jorge Lopes Ramos and PJM | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 30 Jun 09 | | Opens | 3 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 25 Jul 09 | | Closes | 25 Jul 09 | | Time | Tues to Sat at 7.30pm | | Performers | | | Director | Jorge Lopes Ramos | | Design | | | Lighting | Pablo Fernandez Baz | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Zecora Ura featuring The Urban Dolls Project | | Synopsis | A reflection on a night of betrayal and revenge, about pain and memory and the body, and lastly it is about choices that define, final actions - going beyond the point of no return. | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | 40mins | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *in Studio 2
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Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, then North London line to Dalston
Telephone 020 7503 1646 GHOSTS or Those Who Return
by Henrik Ibsen, in a new version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 22 Jul 09 | | Opens | 24 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 22 Aug 09 | | Closes | 22 Aug 09 | | Time | Mon to Sat at 8pm, plus Sat Mats on 15 & 22 Aug at 3pm | | Performers | Harry Lloyd (Osvald), Suzanne Burden (Mrs Alving), Paul Hickey (Pastor Manders), Natasha Broomfield (Regine), Jim Bywater (Engstrand) | | Director | Bijan Sheibani | | Design | Alex Eales | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Arcola Theatre and ATC | | Synopsis | Mrs Alving is ecstatic when her son returns home after years abroad. But within days she's forced to unearth the past and the ghosts who refuse to be silenced. | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *in Studio 1
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Arcola Theatre
27 Arcola Street, London, E8 2DJ
Tube Victoria Line to Highbury and Islington, then North London line to Dalston
Telephone 020 7503 1646 DIRT
by Robert Schneider | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 27 Jul 09 | | Opens | 30 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 15 Aug 09 | | Closes | 15 Aug 09 | | Time | Mon to Sat at 8.15pm | | Performers | Christopher Domig | | Director | David Robinson | | Design | Daniel Domig | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Dreck Productions in collaboration with the Austrian Cultural Forum | | Synopsis | His name is Sad. He is an illegal Iraqi immigrant. He walks our streets and sells roses. In fact, he offered you one last night. Remember? | | B/O Price | £ | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | *in Studio 2
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Bargehouse
Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, London, SE1 9PH
Tube
Telephone Young Vic box office - 020 7922 2922 KATRINA
by Jonathan Holmes, music score by Peter Readman and Peter Nash. | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 1 Sep 09 | | Opens | 4 Sep 09 | | Booking to | 26 Sep 09 | | Closes | 26 Sep 09 | | Time | Tues - Sun at 8pm, Mat Sat at 4pm (4 Sep at 7pm) | | Performers | | | Director | Jonathan Holmes | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Peter Readman and Peter Nash. | | Producer | Jericho House | | Synopsis | A promenade production composed entirely of accounts provided by both survivors and those responsible for the failed relief effort following the hurricane which destroyed the City of New Orleans in August 2005. | | B/O Price | £17 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Barons Court Theatre
28a Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9HP
Tube Barons Court
Telephone 020 8932 4747 DAISY PULLS IT OFF
by Denise Deegan | Location | Other London | | Genre | Comedy | | Previews from | 30 Jun 09 | | Opens | 30 Jun 09 | | Booking to | 5 Jul 09 | | Closes | 5 Jul 09 | | Time | Tues - Sat 7.30pm, Sun at 7pm | | Performers | Lucy Austin (Daisy) | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Nadine's Window theatre company | | Synopsis | The attempts of superachiever, Daisy Meredith, to submerge her poor elementary school background and find acceptance in the snobby confines of Grangewood School for Young Ladies. | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Barons Court Theatre
28a Comeragh Road, West Kensington, London, W14 9HP
Tube Barons Court
Telephone 020 8932 4747 BRIGHT COLOURS ONLY
by Pauline Goldsmith | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 7 Jul 09 | | Opens | 7 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 26 Jul 09 | | Closes | 26 Jul 09 | | Time | Tues - Sun at 8pm | | Performers | Susan Cummins | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Irish Network of Dramatic Art (INDA) | | Synopsis | One-woman show which 'finds humour in the darkest places and spits in the eye of death'. The play provides an irreverent evening of tears and laughter. | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Battersea Arts Centre (BAC)
Lavender Hill, Battersea, London, SW11 5TN
Tube Clapham (BR)
Telephone 020 7223 2223 MAD FOREST
By Caryl Churchill | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 17 Jul 09 | | Opens | 22 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 8 Aug 09 | | Closes | 8 Aug 09 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm | | Performers | | | Director | Caroline Steinbeis | | Design | Max Jones | | Lighting | Johanna Town | | Choreography | | | Costume | Rachael Canning | | Sound | Simon Slater | | Producer | Claire Birch | | Synopsis | Explores the reactions of ordinary people living with the confused events of December 1989 in Romania, focusing in particular on two families. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the revolution, which brought about the end of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceauçescu's reign and his subsequent execution. Caryl Churchill and a group of acting students travelled to Romania only 3 months later, in order to write a play based on the accounts of ordinary people and their experiences of the revolution. They lived and worked with Romanian drama students and it was this collaboration that resulted in the creation of Mad Forest. | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Blue Elephant Theatre
59a Bethwin Rd, Camberwell, London, SE5 0XT (entrance on Thompson Ave)
Tube Oval
Telephone 020 7701 0100 SOUND, THE
by David Mercatali | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 16 Jun 09 | | Opens | 18 Jun 09 | | Booking to | 11 Jul 09 | | Closes | 11 Jul 09 | | Time | Tues - Sat 8pm | | Performers | | | Director | Sebastian Rex | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Merco Productions | | Synopsis | In an army barracks somewhere in remotest Europe, five people spend all day, every day, guarding a spot. They know nothing else. But as they each become convinced that they can hear a sound coming from somewhere near the barracks, their rigid, routine-filled lives slowly begin to fall apart. | | B/O Price | £9 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Bush Theatre
Above the Fringe and Firkin pub, Corner of Shepherds Bush Green and Goldhawk Rd, London W12
Tube Shepherds Bush
Telephone 020 8743 5050 APOLOGIA
by Alexi Kaye Campbell | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 17 Jun 09 | | Opens | 22 Jun 09 | | Booking to | 18 Jul 09 | | Closes | 18 Jul 09 | | Time | Mon - Sat 7.30pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm (22 June at 7 pm ) | | Performers | | | Director | Josie Rourke | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Bush | | Synopsis | Kristin Weybridge is an eminent and successful art critic. As a young mother, she followed her politics and art, storming Parisian barricades and following her heart to Florence. Her successful memoir secures her place in history but fails to mention her sons. Her birthday should be a time for celebration but when her son Simon decides to deliver his version of the past, everyone must confront the cost of Kristin's commitment to her work. | | B/O Price | £15 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Cavendish Gate
295 Regent Street, London, W1B 2HL
Tube Oxford Circus
Telephone 07708 740 913 PEDAL PUSHER
created by Theatre Delicatessen | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 7 Jul 09 | | Opens | 14 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 1 Aug 09 | | Closes | 1 Aug 09 | | Time | Tues - Sat at 7.30pm | | Performers | | | Director | Roland Smith | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Theatre Delicatessen | | Synopsis | Pedalpusher is a new piece of theatre that combines elements of docu-drama, devised performance and physical theatre. Drawing on interviews, archive footage and news reports it tells the true story of three cyclists battling to become the champion of the Tour de France. Pedalpusher captures the excitement, intrigue and danger of the race, drawing the audience into the murky underworld of professional sport. | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Courtyard Theatre
Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London N1 6EU
Tube Old Street
Telephone 0870 163 0717 WHO WILL CARRY THE WORD?
by Charlotte Delbo | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 9 Jun 09 | | Opens | 11 Jun 09 | | Booking to | 5 Jul 09 | | Closes | 5 Jul 09 | | Time | Tues - Sun 8pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm (11 Jun at 7pm) | | Performers | Rosa Hoskins (Gina), Esin Harvey (Francoise), Suzanne Goldberg (Claire) | | Director | | | Design | Alistair Turner | | Lighting | | | Choreography | Hakan Redjep | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Roberts Pryce & Co Theatre Company & The Courtyard Theatre | | Synopsis | 1943: 15 women - members of the French Resistance are sent to Auschwitz - Birkenau as political prisoners. This is their story of hope, friendship and sacrifice to journey back and tell the truth to the world. | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | In the Studio |
Courtyard Theatre
Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, Hoxton, London N1 6EU
Tube Old Street
Telephone 0870 163 0717 TWILIGHT OF THE GODS
by Julian Doyle | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 9 Jun 09 | | Opens | 9 Jun 09 | | Booking to | 5 Jul 09 | | Closes | 5 Jul 09 | | Time | Tues - Sun 8pm | | Performers | Jud Charlton (Friedrich Nietzsche), William Hoyland (Richard Wagner), Anna Winslet (Sister of Mercy) | | Director | Julian Doyle | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | The Courtyard | | Synopsis | The composer Richard Wagner and the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche were good friends but on the day of Richard Wagner!s greatest triumph, the opening of his Opera House at Bayreuth, Nietzsche walked away from the friendship and later threatened to kill Wagner. Soon after these bizarre events Wagner died and Nietzsche went raving mad, spending the last ten years of his life in a permanent state of catatonia. Recently the extraordinary details of the quarrel between these two giants of 19th Century culture has come to light and is dramatically revealed when the haunting Ghost of Richard Wagner materializes to the raving Nietzsche within the walls of the Turin Lunatic Asylum. | | B/O Price | £12 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | In the Main House |
Etcetera Theatre
Above the Oxford Arms, 265 Camden High Street, London, NW1 7BU
Tube Camden Town
Telephone 020 7482 4857 BOX, THE
By Eloise Rhodes | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 7 Jul 09 | | Opens | 7 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 12 Jul 09 | | Closes | 12 Jul 09 | | Time | Tues - Sat 7.30pm, Sun at 6.30pm | | Performers | | | Director | | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | | | Synopsis | Siblings, Tom and Heather, are cleaners at a prestigious London hotel. On the surface they are a normal team, but beneath the facade they have created a world of fantasy, where the clothes of hotel residents are used to recreate their bizarre desires. Based loosely on Genet's The Maids, the play explores the power struggle between the two downtrodden employees, and the dangerous and crazed lives they live. | | B/O Price | £7.50 | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 S-27
by Sarah Grochala | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 9 Jun 09 | | Opens | 11 Jun 09 | | Booking to | 4 Jul 09 | | Closes | 4 Jul 09 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | Brooke Kinsella, Pippa Nixon, Jack Pierce, Tom Reed, Amelia Saberwal, Kate Ward | | Director | Stephen Keyworth | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Lifeboat Theatre | | Synopsis | Inspired by the work of Nhem En, prison photographer under Cambodia's Khmer Rouge. May is an idealist. She's fighting for a better world and has sacrificed more than most. So when the old regime is destroyed, she is rewarded with a job as a prison photographer. But as the enemy pass one by one before her unflinching lens - both strange and familiar faces - can they shake her belief in this world she helped create? | | B/O Price | £13 (Tues £9) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 DEATH OF LONG PIG
by Nigel Planer | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 7 Jul 09 | | Opens | 9 Jul 09 | | Booking to | 1 Aug 09 | | Closes | 1 Aug 09 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | Amanda Boxer, Nicole Dayes, Colm Gormley, Sean Murray, Anthony Ofoegbu | | Director | Alexander Summers | | Design | Alex Marker | | Lighting | James Smith | | Choreography | | | Costume | Penn O'Gara | | Sound | Matt Downing | | Producer | JQ Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre | | Synopsis | Deep in the Polynesian islands of the Pacific Ocean, hungry spirits circle the homes of writer Robert Louis Stevenson and artist Paul Gauguin. Join them in their final hour to usher death into their island homes. The path to Stevenson's grave, his 'Road to Paradise', is complete; he can pass on anytime he likes. But, having spent thirty years in rigorous combat with the grim reaper, is he finally ready to concede defeat? His islander maid, Java is terrified his spirit will get waylaid on its journey back to Edinburgh and stay to devour her soul. Gauguin too, is ready - he has bought rum, arsenic and morphine for his suicide cocktail and is certain he's not long for this world. It seemed easy enough to avoid being arrested by the gendarme, but he'll be damned if they give him a Catholic burial in consecrated ground. Set in the strange and supernatural surroundings of Samoa and Tahiti, Death of Long Pig explores the duality of experience from the perspectives of two great artists; one voyage made in the name of life and peace, the other hell bent on heresy and suicide. | | B/O Price | £13 (Tues £9) | | Length | 2hrs | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 STATE FAIR
Music by Richard Rodgers. Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Book by Tom Briggs and Louis Mattioli. Based on the novel by Phil Stong and the screenplay by Oscar Hammerstein II | Location | Other London | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 4 Aug 09 | | Opens | 6 Aug 09 | | Booking to | 29 Aug 09 | | Closes | 29 Aug 09 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | | | Director | Thom Southerland | | Design | Alison Brookes | | Lighting | Steve Miller | | Choreography | Sally Brooks | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Thom Southerland in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre | | Synopsis | Set against the colourful backdrop of an American heartland tradition, State Fair travels with the Frake family as they leave behind the routine of the farm for three days of adventure at the 1946 annual Iowa State Fair. Mom and Pop have their hearts set on winning blue ribbons for best boar and best homemade mincemeat, whilst their daughter and son find both love and heartbreak in the romance of the busy fairground. | | B/O Price | £13 (Tues £9) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | Musical Direction by Alex Weatherhill |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 TOO TRUE TO BE GOOD
by Bernard Shaw | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 1 Sep 09 | | Opens | 3 Sep 09 | | Booking to | 26 Sep 09 | | Closes | 26 Sep 09 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | | | Director | Sarah Norman | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Bitter Pill Productions. | | Synopsis | A rich young woman catches a pair of burglars in her bedroom, but instead of calling the police she decides to run off with them, and live off the proceeds of her own burglary. The three embark on a permanent beach holiday, a life of fabulous wealth and total freedom. Written in 1932, during the last great economic collapse, Too True To Be Good asks what we would do if we finally got everything we ever wanted. | | B/O Price | £13 (Tues £9) | | Length | | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 TOBACCO MERCHANT'S LAWYER, THE
by Iain Heggie | Location | Other London | | Genre | Drama | | Previews from | 29 Sep 09 | | Opens | 1 Oct 09 | | Booking to | 24 Oct 09 | | Closes | 24 Oct 09 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | | | Director | Liz Carruthers | | Design | | | Lighting | | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | | | Producer | Open Book - Plays by Writers in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre | | Synopsis | 1780. Glasgow is booming, but the American war is looming, and the city's wealth is dependent on the import and export of American tobacco. Can the great port survive? Howver, this pressing question is NOT addressed by Enoch Dalmellington, Virginia Street. He is more concerned about marrying off his dreich pious humourless daughter Euphemia, being able to afford his pew at the Tron Kirk, and what to do about Mistress Zapata's scurrilous predictions about Glasgow in 2009. Apparently 'women will be attending university, the poor will all have water closets and his beloved Virginia Street will become a hotbed of sodomy!' | | B/O Price | £13 (Tues £9) | | Length | 1 hr | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
Finborough Theatre
The Finborough, 118 Finborough Road, London SW10 9ED
Tube Earl's Court
Telephone 0844 847 1652 LITTLE FISH
Book, Music and Lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa Suggested by the short stories of Deborah Eisenberg | Location | Other London | | Genre | Musical | | Previews from | 27 Oct 09 | | Opens | 29 Oct 09 | | Booking to | 21 Nov 09 | | Closes | 21 Nov 09 | | Time | Tue ð Sat 7.30pm, Mats Sat & Sun at 3pm | | Performers | | | Director | Adam Lenson | | Design | Bec Chippendale | | Lighting | James Smith | | Choreography | | | Costume | | | Sound | Mike Thacker | | Producer | JQ Productions and Treasuretrove Productions in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre | | Synopsis | When Charlotte decides to give up smoking, she doesn't realise quite how difficult it will be. As she attempts to fill her nicotine-starved days, the events of a troubled past slowly begin to resurface; an abusive ex-boyfriend, a new life in New York, a bizarre roommate and a boss who is a little too hands on. As her emotional debris accumulates, we see Charlotte's vivid memories juxtaposed against her present day life. But even with her friends trying to help, can this Little Fish learn to survive in a pond as big as New York City? | | B/O Price | £18 (Tues £14) | | Length | 1hr 30min | | Review | | | Seating Plan | | | Map | | | Other Info | |
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