Alistair McGowan, touring

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Alistair McGowan, touring

Tour-de-force of impressionist's art

by Veronica LeeSaturday, 24 October 2009

Alastair McGowan’s larynx is an amazing thing; it allows him to do 120 voices in 120 minutes during his solo touring show, The One and Many..., which I saw at Journal Tyne Theatre in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Not all the impressions are spot-on and there’s an over-reliance on sport-related material, but this is a tour-de-force of the impressionist’s art

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