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Aeneas Faversham Returns
Edinburgh Fringe / Touring
The Penny Dreadfuls are responsible for the Empire's foremost Victorian sketch comedy show, Aeneas Faversham. Full of dark wit and ridiculous melodrama, Faversham delves into 19th century quirks and oddities to rich comic effect.
After a glorious run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2006, we've been touring Faversham around the country over the last year, including runs at the Glasgow and Leicester Comedy Festivals.
Perhaps unlike many sketch shows, Faversham relies a great deal on theatrical staging and presentation. Scenes often have more in common with tiny comic playlets than traditional sketches, and both lighting and sound contribute greatly to the atmosphere of a show.
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Neil E. Hobbs
Latest projects:
- The Never Man– a comic thriller
- Flhip-Flhop– on tour with Rannel's hip-hop show
- On Wonderland– learning to trust reality
- The Bible (Abridged)– touring with the Reduced Shakespeare Company
- Aeneas Faversham Forever– a silly melodrama
- The Bird / The Bee– two plays of modern tragedy
- Hysteria– relights for Inspector Sands' UK tour
- Aeneas Faversham Returns– a Victorian sketch show
- Radio– the moonshot and the American dream
- Winged– a play for children
- Tell– an exploration of memory
- Frozen– relights for Rapture's tour
- Stars– growing up and moving on
- Enola– small-town life and the Manhattan Project
- A Plague Requiem– sorrow and loss in song and movement
- Crestfall– tales from the urban wasteland
