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Josie Long: The Future Is Another Place (3 stars)

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Josie Long is back again with her fifth Fringe show. Come along! This is a show about feeling newly tormented by the world around you and about optimism and despair. But that sounds more serious than it is. It'll be a silly, manic round up of all kinds of things. It will probably have a play in it where I play every one of the Bronte's too, if that's your bag? The show has two clear aims: 1. Fight some sort of a cool gang or something. 2. Fight injustice.

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Josie Long: The Future Is Another Place

19 Aug 20113 stars

Stand up for the left

Josie Long is ready to rubbish a stock right-wing idea when a heckler interrupts. ‘Hear hear!’ the grumbler shouts back at the suggestion that a cleaner shouldn’t have to pay tax towards funding liberal arts degrees. Long looks shocked, uttering…

Josie Long - The Future is Another Place

26 Jul 2011

Little miss sunshine gets political

JosieWorld is a place built on home-spun whimsy and Ms Long presides over it with a refreshing optimism, pointing out all the little things that make us smile or inspire or deserve kudos. In her fourth Fringe show it is being impinged upon by a newfound…

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