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Yılmaz Erdoğan bringing new stand-up show ‘Münaşaka’ to London

After a 12-year hiatus from the stage, award-winning actor, film director and screenwriter Yılmaz Erdoğan returns with a new one-man comedy show. Münaşaka takes its cue from George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion. First performed in 1913, it is about a professor who makes a bet that he can train a poor...

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Back with a 'boom': The Hakbrayne Experience in Dalston this Bank Holiday Sunday

Described by festival-goers at Boomtown Fair as “mind-blowingly great”, Destiny – the motor-home of mystery and joy – arrives back in her spiritual home of Dalston, ready to welcome new friends and old. Climb aboard Destiny this Sunday and enter the 17th dimension – an individual, immersive trip...

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See Şaban Kâzım and his comedy amigos at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Their show may be called Three Amigos, but Şaban Kâzım, Peter de Basio and Simon Wozniak don’t actually all know each other, and there’s nothing Mexican about them or their act. Yet fate has decided to bring these three upcoming stand-up comedians together in a one-hour show at the Bourbon Bar at th...

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Turkish- Jewish comedy duo Saban and Sarah to premiere debut show at the Camden Fringe

Saban’s Turkish Cypriot dad still doesn’t know he does stand-up. Sarah’s Czech grandmother knows she does it, but doesn’t know what it is. Next weekend this newly paired comedy duo will perform the world premiere of their show at the Camden Fringe Festival. During their hour-long comedy narrat...

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Turkish stand-up Şaban Kâzım wins London Comedy Store’s King Gong award

Şaban Kazim emerged the winner from last month’s competition for amateur stand-up comedians at the world famous Comedy Store in Leicester Square. The 31-year-old competed against 25 other acts to make it through to the final, where he beat five others to take the King Gong award. The southeas...

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What would Eray & Koray do?

Our agreed rendezvous point is Burger King, Leicester Square. I’m not sure what to expect, two Fez wearing young Turks? And, having penned their first column for T-VINE on Turkish Time, will Eray & Koray (E&K) even be on time? They are, without the fezes. We go for a drink in a cool bar o...

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