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Billy Bishop Goes To War – Courtesy of Robert Workman 2018 is, as I’m sure most people know, the centenary of the end of the First World War. It is also the 100th anniversary of the formation of the Royal Air Force. This is, therefore, a wonderful time for the Jermyn Street Theatre to be staging a tale of one of the most famous WWI fighter aces as they present another show in their Rebels season with a production of  Billy Bishop Goes to War . Billy Bishop (Oliver Beamish) is wandering around his, what we would call today, man-cave. It is a room full of memories and Billy is in a mood to share them. He tells the audience his story. Starting with his, very undistinguished, time at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario, we follow young Billy (Charles Aitken) as the First World War starts and he receives his commission in the Mississauga Horse Cavalry Regiment. His posting to England for a period of training, and his realisation that, if he is going...

https://www.londontheatre1.com/news/166882/beau-brummell-an-elegant-madness-jermyn-street-theatre/ Beau Brummell – An Elegant Madness, Jermyn Street Theatre – Richard Latham and Sean Brosnan, courtesy of Savannah Photographic A little thing can have an amazing effect on the world. Remember Benjamin Franklin’s poem that starts “ For the want of a nail the shoe was lost ” and ends up with an entire kingdom being given away all because a nail was missing. A historical example of little things changing the life of someone occurred in 1813 when five words uttered in a fit of pique by Britain’s greatest dandy ruined his life and started a downward spiral that ended in madness. The words were “ Alvanley, who’s your fat friend? “. The consequences of this utterance can be seen in Ron Hutchinson’s play  Beau Brummell – An Elegant Madness  which has opened at the Jermyn Street Theatre. It is 1819 and in a run down room in a French convent, Mr Beau Brummell (Seán Brosnan) is sittin...