There are great theatre shows on offer all year round at the King's Theatre and Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.

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Surviving Spike

Disappointingly conventional take on the life of anarchic Goon Spike Milligan. Michael Barrymore, this year's Fringe celebrity casting, offers a good interpretation of the depression and mood swings which plagued the comedian, but doesn't show any feel for his comedic genius. It's pleasantly watchable, but then neither of those words should be associated with Milligan. 'Part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe'

Surviving Spike

Surviving Spike

The taming of the Goon

(2 stars)14 Aug 2008

He was a maverick, a one-off, a free-associating comedy anarchist. So what’s the point in paying tribute to Spike Milligan with a bio-play that is safe, conventional and cosy? The tone of Surviving Spike by Richard Harris has far more in common with the…

Michael Barrymore

Surviving Spike

The tortured genius behind the inspired comic lunacy

31 Jul 2008

Surviving Spike promises to reveal the ‘tormented character that hid behind the public facade’. Audiences could be forgiven for assuming the blurb refers to the show’s star, Michael Barrymore, whose career was all but destroyed by revelations of the…

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