 Event |
Music Hall Monster: The Insatiable Mr Fred Barnes
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| Venue |
Wilton's Music Hall, London, England |
| First Date |
2 May 2018 |
| Last Date |
12 May 2018 |
| Dates Estimated |
No |
| Status |
Professional |
| World Premiere |
No |
| Description |
Fred Barnes was a famous music hall singer. He fell spectacularly from grace, brought down by a shockingly modern range of addictions: sex, shopping, alcohol, and a need for celebrity. At the pinnacle of his fame in the 1920s he was fabulously wealthy and sported the height of extravagant fashion with a marmoset on his shoulder. By the mid 1930s he was singing for pennies in Southend pubs with a chicken on his shoulder. |
| Description Source |
Website |
| Primary Genre |
Theatre - Spoken Word
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| Secondary Genre |
Cabaret
Comic Song
Cross-Dress
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| Contributors |
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| Production Nationality |
England
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| Further Information |
His life was one of gothic horror, total extremes, and rather lovely songs. Olivier Award-winning theatre-maker and Wilton's Music Hall associate, Christopher Green takes to the stage as Fred Barnes, fresh from taking his immersive entertainment about pornography, Prurience, to the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
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| Event Status |
Completed
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| Data Source |
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| Event Identifier |
140083 |
| Dataset |
AusStage |
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