thu 06/02/2025

improvisation

Pajama Men, Soho Theatre

'Pajama Men': Mark Chavez and Shenoah Allen create a rich fantasia dressed in their jimjams

We must be on the night train, as there's something crazily dreamlike about the Pajama Men's mercurial railroad fantasy, The Last Stand to Reason, which was a runaway Edinburgh Fringe hit last year and is now, deservedly, back at Soho by popular...

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Freedom of the City, Conway Hall, London

Evan Parker: intense and emotive explorations of pure sonics

Eight hours of “improvised and experimental music” would not be on everyone’s list of Bank Holiday essentials, and the marathon programme that constitutes the first half of the two-day Freedom of The City festival could have proved daunting for even...

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Outnumbered, BBC One

When it first aired in 2007, Outnumbered finally allowed viewers to see children on television really being children (hitting each other, lying, being naturally witty, shouting “Dad attacked that lady” in public), while ruthlessly exploiting the...

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Trouble Tune: Bass Clef, Geiom, London Improvisers Orchestra

Kamal Joory aka dubstep outsider Geiom

There are occasional days when the Royal Festival Hall really feels like the people's palace it was always meant to be – and yesterday, with its free concert of live improvisation mixed with dubstep and electronica in the RFH bar, was absolutely one...

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