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Comedy Interview: Robin & Partridge

Ahead of their Old Vic Tunnels show this Friday, Robin & Partridge tell us about 9 Elms, quiches and standing in a field in Somerset dressed as a fairy.

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Review: Cart Macabre @ Old Vic Tunnels

Living Structure’s Cart Macabre may well be the ultimate ghost train. You’ll scream, I screamed, we all screamed at some point during this trip into the deep, dank darkness below Waterloo station.

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Preview: Hell’s Half Acre @ Old Vic Tunnels

The next project at the Old Vic Tunnels, a warren of re-purposed British Rail storage facilities beneath Waterloo station, will turn the space into a vision of hell. Specifically, hell as envisaged by one Dante Alighieri. The Italian poet’s Inferno, an allegorical trawl through the …

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Review: Dark Carnival @ Old Vic Tunnels

Bernadette Byrne of EastEnd Cabaret Its that time of year again in London and the week before the mother of all carnivals takes over Ladbroke Grove, the Old Vic Tunnels are hosting Dark Carnival, a festival of performance art in its many forms. This event …

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Preview: Dark Carnival @ Old Vic Tunnels

Claudio Santana Whether or not you’ve been to the Old Vic Tunnels yet, this weekend’s Dark Carnival is the perfect chance to see this unique venue in a new light and promises something for everyone. There will be a small cinema with films including Peter …

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Nursery Festival Review: Slapdash @ The Old Vic Tunnels

Stretching down into the depths beneath Waterloo station, your path lined with layers of graffiti lovingly enhanced by generations of hooded youths, you will find a place which is not, as you might on first glance think, an overflow junk yard for Network Rail, but …

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Theatre Review: Ditch @ the Old Vic Theatre Tunnels

Gethin Anthony as James. Photo by William Knight It’s Britain in the near future, and most of the country is underwater. Ditch takes place in the Peak District, on a kind of outpost farm where a group of “security” hang out, scratching out an existence …