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JOHN SESSIONS
(1953 - 2020)Nationality: British
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John Gibb Marshall (11 January 1953 2 November 2020), better known by the stage name John Sessions, was a British actor and comedian. He was known for comedy improvisation in television shows such as Whose Line Is It Anyway?, as a panellist on QI, and as a character actor in numerous films, both in the UK and Hollywood
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John Sessions Life Of Napoleon, The Lives Of The Great Composers Napoleon Old And New Chestnuts and Salute To Dr Johnson Sessions with French and Saunders Travelling TalesJohn Sessions
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this extraordinary one-man show given by animaginative, Joycean mimic who happily dJsproves the common evaluation of 'an alternative comedian as one ,who does not make you laugh.'
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Riverside Studios, London
07 Mar 1984
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Top of PageLife Of Napoleon, The
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Laden with minor TV personalities and assorted hams from the Old Vic's Green Room, this is a sprawling, massively researched, 3-D account of Boney's career
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Riverside, London >>>
14 Aug 1987
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Independent Theatrical Productions
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Top of PageLives Of The Great Composers
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sceptical -skimming of musical history from the dark ages to Aaron Copeland makes a delightfully irreverent entertainment.
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Riverside Studios, London
28 Dec 1984
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Cabaret
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Top of PageNapoleon
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The programme boasts a cast list which would make any Hollywood Producer green with envy: Jack Nicholson, Jack Lemmon, Woody Allen ... And like all good American spoofs it comes complete with trimmings - crammed with action, razzamazz and one of history's greatest soap operas thrown m for good measure. For two-hours-a tremulous John Sessions dons Bonaparte's famous hat and a number of other disguises and infuses some of the great figures of history with his own brand of wicked humour. 'If you took away my buildings, Paris would look like Stevenage' quips his Napoleon, who plans his manoeuvres on a stage clustered with flags, ships, cannons and other war relics, like some enthuiastic schoolboy.
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Phoenix, London
1989
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Renaissance Theatre Company
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Top of PageOld And New Chestnuts and Salute To Dr Johnson
Synopsis:
fast speaking Sessions with rapid switches of character
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transferred to Kings Head, London
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Riverside Studios, London
1984
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Top of PageSessions with French and Saunders
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particular vein of manic parody
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1st Produced:
King's Head, London
03 Dec 1984
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Cabaret
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Top of PageTravelling Tales
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The programme for his latest display of parody, pastiche, and manic inventiveness (directed by Tim Supple) opens with a Mercator projection of the worid, but leaves it at that, missing the oportunity to explain where to bend the map along dotted lines and turn it into a terrestrial globe that we could after wards dribble down Haymarket.
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1st Produced:
Theatre Royal Haymarket, London
27 Aug 1991
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Renaissance Theatre Company
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