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Sketchatron: Resurrection

Friday, 1 February, 2008 — filed under: Neil's productions / news / stage

Last week we set up camp at the Pleasance for the mightiest Sketchatron to date. With a line-up featuring our own Penny Dreadfuls, The Idiots of Ants, mighty award-herders Pappy’s Fun Club and the almost unbearably lovely The Sunday Defensive.

With so much quality on-stage, the show sold out a couple of days in advance, and the Pleasance was packed to the rafters with comedy cognoscente. The Defensive had some brand new material and Pappy’s held a meat raffle. An exhausting, wonderful, amazingly good value-for-money night, which is why we’re doing it again in April. (Although the current naming convention dictates the next one should be called Sketchatron vs Predator, apparently we can’t have that.) Book now!

I was a little too busy to listen live to the third episode of The Brothers Faversham last Friday night (see above), but the fourth and final episode is pushed over the airwaves tonight—you should be able to listen again for the next week. There’s a second series on the way, so I’m told, and the boys are appearing in all sorts of exciting projects in the coming months; keep an eye on the Backstage Diary for info-treats.