About West End Whingers
Inveterate (and increasingly veteran) London theatre-goers Andrew and Phil are on a mission to find value for money and quality in the West End.
Ever resentful of cutting into their valuable wine-time in the interests of art, their philanthropic aim is to ensure that you benefit from their ceaseless search for entertainment.
So the West End Whingers cast their jaundiced eyes over the London stages to let you know if it’s worth missing the Merlot for Marlowe.
Pricking pomposity and pretension, their target is the over-priced, the over-blown, the over-hyped and – especially – the over-long. Life is too short and so are bar opening hours.
They ask merely to be entertained. Is that such a lot to ask?
In short, they sit through the crap so you don’t have to. So you owe them. Big time.
Monday 26 March 2007 at 9:40 am
Great stuff! Here’s a whinge for you — why is the bar area at the Comedy Theatre so impossibly small?
Monday 26 March 2007 at 9:46 am
Because it makes for good comedy? Especially if you have been very organised and ordered your interval drinks in advance. You can then stand there sipping your Shiraz and obstructing the attempts of everyone else to get to the bar. Priceless. We coudl do it for hours and are considering campaigning for longer intervals at the Comedy as a matter of policy.
Thursday 18 June 2009 at 8:08 am
Lovely blog.
Tuesday 23 November 2010 at 10:12 am
My evening was made. There we were, my partner and I, and the post-show party for the 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic, surveying the massed ranks of thesps, necking as much free champagne as we could, and a young man comes up to us and says:
“Excuse me, are you the West End Whingers?”