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Published: 26 June 2008

In The Wings

A DISILLUSIONED dominatrix and an oriental Elvis impersonator find they have more in common than anyone might have imagined in an eccentric short from Humble Boy author, Charlotte Jones.
Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis is an outrageous melange of “comedy and heart-throbbing humanity” Upstairs at the Gatehouse in Highgate for the next two weeks.

HATS off to the Rosemary Branch for its unstinting ambition: not content with staging ENO-style operas, the tiny Canonbury theatre is now tackling ballet.
“The stage is just about big enough for a glissade and a grande jete, but we may have to change some of the lifts so we don’t get stuck on the lighting bars” Joel Morris, lead dancer of Les Primas, told In the Wings.
To see the carefully orchestrated mayhem for yourself, Les Primas runs from July 3 to 5.

BROTHERS Andrew and Matthew Burman perform a dark retelling a the classic Jack and the Beanstalk for just one more time at the Pleasance Theatre this weekend.
The pair, who describe their approach as “presenting old wine in new bottles”, are at the Islington theatre at 3pm on June 28.

REALITY TV gets a much-deserved drubbing in the King’s Head Theatre’s lunchtime two-hander, Virginia Woolf Gets a Makeover.
Islington actress Nicola Hollinghead brings the famous feminist and literary icon back from the dead to endure one of the gurning media transformations so common on our screens. Find out what she makes of it at 1pm on July 2 and July 6.

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