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Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late But Live

Description: Potatoes, tobacco, Elizabethan dance, cross-dressing, xenophobia and laughs galore from the team behind 2007's Johnson ... more

Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late But Live ... And Boswell: Late But Live.

Newest Review: ... from an extension for its inevitable tour following the festival. It's also impressive that it manages to exert such ... more

... mainstream appeal, being created by a group of artistically conscious comedians who can be frustratingly obscure when they want to be. Elizabeth and Raleigh are probably the best sixteenth-century double-act at this year's Fringe. Spaniards need not attend. 'Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late But Live' is on at the Underbelly's Cow Barn off Bristo Square, from 31st July to 25th August 2008 (not 13th) at 10:35pm, lasting one hour. Tickets cost £11 - £13.50 (£10 - £12.50 concessions)....more

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Elizabeth and Raleigh: Late But Live: Edinburgh Fringe 2008: Elizabeth and Raleigh - Late But Live (477 words)
by - written on 03/08/08 (Very useful, 66 readings)
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The sequel to last year's 'Johnson and Boswell: Late But Live' retreats further back in pseudohistory to the distinctly less Scottish plains of Queen Elizabeth's sixteenth-century court, once again starring comedians Miles 'Balamory' Jupp and Simon Munnery respectively, the latter affecting an aloof persona that will be familiar to fans of his earlier character The League Against Tedium, only somewhat more xenophobic in true Elizabethan spirit. Raleigh introduces himself to the audience, which he has gathered in the University of Edinburgh's Reid Concert Hall (tastefully renamed the Cow Barn for one month of the year) to witness what he presumes will be the ... Read the complete review