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FAREWELL FESTIVAL Banana Cabaret – 1st-30th May
Location: The Bedford, Balham
Banana Cabaret is taking a last bow and retiring from the stage. They are celebrating the adjacent of their 43 twelvemonth residency astatine The Bedford with a FAREWELL FESTIVAL running Friday, 1st to Saturday, 30th May.
Opening successful 1983, Banana Cabaret drama nine was astatine the vanguard of the caller alternate drama movement, hosting each the greats implicit the years. The nine was a shining airy done the aureate property of unrecorded stand-up, playing a captious relation successful weaving this breathtaking and unsocial creation signifier into the cloth of British culture.
Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Jo Brand, Catherine Tate, Jack Dee, Rob Brydon, Sarah Millican and each your favourite household sanction comedians, chopped their standup teeth here.
The Fleet Street Quarter Festival of Words
Location: Fleet Street
Fleet Street Quarter’s Festival of Words returns from 12th -16th May 2026, bringing 5 days of enriching and divers conversations to this historical occidental broadside of the City of London. Featuring an array of authors, journalists, and thinkers crossed aggregate genres, the Festival of Words celebrates Fleet Street Quarter arsenic the spot wherever stories person ever been born.
The taxable this twelvemonth takes inspiration from the celebrated opening lines of Charles Dickens’s novel, A Tale of Two Cities: ‘It was the champion of times, it was the worst of times, it was the property of wisdom, it was the property of foolishness'.
There are implicit 40 events examining and celebrating what drives this 'Age of Wisdom and Foolishness', the ideas close oregon incorrect that situation what has gone earlier and question to foretell what volition travel next.
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