Performance

Venue	Criterion Theatre
Town	West End
County	Greater London
From	15th November 2021
To	15th November 2021
When	15:00, 19:30
Criterion Theatre (V387)
Current/Future Listings
Listings Archive

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Date of change: 28 Oct 21 - T0556826974

Naturally Insane! The Life of Dan Leno

Work:: Naturally Insane! The Life of Dan Leno (S453023429)

Set in Camberwell Asylum in the last weeks of Dan Leno's life, he is visited by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree to discuss Shakespeare while his nurse and physician try to make sense of Dan and his condition. It is in turns sad funny and poignant and will make you laugh out loud with instantly recognisable music-hall songs in a joyful insight into the life of a legendary comedian. DAN LENO was the superstar of the Victorian music-halls and the annual pantomime at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. He died tragically young at 43 in 1904 but his legacy lives on to this day. He inspired Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin, his influence and style are picked up in the work of Norman Evans and Les Dawson and continues throughout the present day with comedian Peter Kay.

Production:: (T0556826974)

Performer	Steve Royle (Dan Leno)
Performer	Janet Maher (Nurse Kelly)
Performer	Neil Rowland (Henry Galvin)
Performer	Nicola Violet (Lydia Leno)
Performer	Phil Walker (Doctor Savage)
Performer	John Thomson (Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree)

Listing:: L876826708

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