The Penny Dreadfuls: Aeneas Faversham Forever

The biggest-selling and best-reviewed sketch comedy troupe at the Edinburgh Festival 2008, The Penny Dreadfuls return to London with their new play, Aeneas Faversham Forever.

Can innocent children's author Rufus Hambleden unravel the mystery behind the Tower Bridge construction site? Can he save us from the evil machinations of the sinister industrialist Lucius Frost? A rip-roaring rollercoaster of murder and the occult unfolds across the murky underworld of Victorian London, revealing a terrifying secret that could threaten the Empire.

Russell Kane: Gaping Flaws

A tub-thumping critical success in 2007; A sell-out run, garnering an Elizabeth Dukedom of glimmering five star reviews in 2008. Russell Kane has had a good couple of years in Edinburgh.

Old teacups. Anthony Trollope. My Nan’s gammy hip. Why are British people fond of all things flawed? Why does love grow in the cracks between cold perfection? Maybe it is a British thing. We bond through moaning. ‘How was your day?’ ‘Cack!’ ‘How was mine?’ ‘Cack!’ Let’s go to the pub, happiness.

Love. Race. Politics. Class. Super-speed sunderings and inconvenient sociology abound in an hour of self-soiling merriment that will leave you with rickets.