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Lee Simpson

@leesimpson.bsky.social
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Improbable Co-artistic director, member of @comedystoreplayers.com, real name Len.

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Neil Mullarkey @neilmullarkey.com · 29/09/2026
youtu.be/PHOnykmznyo the Better Work podcast… with me as guest
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COMEDY LEGEND Neil Mullarkey | How improv could change the way you work | Better At Work Season 5
YouTube video by Better@Work Podcast
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Richard Vranch @richardvranch.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Line-up for the improv show tomorrow Sunday 27th @thecomedystore.co.uk See you there!
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Neil Mullarkey @neilmullarkey.com · 25/09/2026
I’m popping back to @thecomedystore.co.uk on 29 November to play with the lovely @comedystoreplayers.com. Excited.
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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 24/09/2026
Wouldn't that be nice, eh? 💚
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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We’re celebrating East and South East Asian (#ESEA) Heritage Month this September at My Neighbour Totoro! ✨ #FindYourSpirit
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Zoo Co @wearezooco.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Our Associate Artist, Sophie Woolley, has written a blog on why she still can't get the show out of her head. Read it here: www.wearezooco.co.uk/post/can-t-g...
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CAN’T GET PERFECT SHOW FOR RACHEL OUT OF MY HEAD
This time last year we were preparing to rehearse for the Perfect Show For Rachel tour.Sophie Woolley, Associate Artist with Zoo Co, has been reflecting on why Perfect Show for Rachel has such stickin...
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Ben Moor @benmoor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
If you were sent a diary for next year, already filled in, would you do the things you were "meant to do"? Come see a work-in-progress revival of my show from 2008, Not Everything is Significant. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Guardian ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Metro ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Chortle ⏰ 14.00 📅 2026.10.10 📌 Hen & Chickens, N1 🎟️ bit.ly/479DqNl
Poster for Ben Moor's show Not Everything is Significant, a work-in-progress revival performance of a piece from 2008.Flyer information for Ben Moor's show Not Everything is Significant, a work-in-progress revival performance of a piece from 2008.
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Cat Mac @catherinemac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a superb lineup
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Neil Mullarkey @neilmullarkey.com · 19/09/2026
29 November
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Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If you've not yet seen the unofficial double act of Josie and Ruth, I beg you, right that wrong. They're cosmically good.
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Cat Mac @catherinemac.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Getting ready for our roadtrip for impro fun. Looking forward to this - going to be great!
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Cat Mac @catherinemac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This starts in Maidstone today - looking forward to catching a show on Saturday. If you are in the area, go and have a look at what shows and workshops are running. #improv #maidstone #comedy maidstoneimprovfestival.com
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Maidstone Improv Festival 2026 — 17–20 September
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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 17/09/2026
A lovely interview with Helen and Vic, our current Satsuki and Mei, in Japan Nakama, about bringing the iconic sisters to the stage:
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Victoria Chen and Helen Chong on My Neighbour Totoro in London | Japan Nakama
Victoria Chen and Helen Chong on playing Mei and Satsuki in London, the character Miyazaki deleted, and what a grieving man said at the stage door.
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Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Gonna be jolly frolics. @richardvranch.bsky.social @comedystoreuk.bsky.social
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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 14/09/2026
My Neighbour Totoro announces the date of its final performance at the Gillian Lynne Theatre:
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My Neighbour Totoro announces new closing date
The show wraps up its spell in the West End a week earlier than planned
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Cat Mac @catherinemac.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
👏👏👏
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Only running for 2 more days at Soho Place Theatre, but Tao of Glass is an amazing performance.
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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Bat & Ball is easily reached by direct train from London Blackfriars.
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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Storytelling in Sevenoaks: Sennockian Stories: Tuesday 29 September, I’ll be leading a new eight-week improv and storytelling workshop at Bat & Ball in Sevenoaks. www.improbable.co.uk/sennockian-s...
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Sennockian Stories: An Eight Week Storytelling Workshop — Improbable
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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Have you met our forest friends yet? 🌱 #FindYourSpirit © Manuel Harlan
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Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
She's on telly She's on tour She is guesting At the Store (Rachel that is. And she's on tour from November, but y'know) @rachelparris.bsky.social @comedystoreuk.bsky.social
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Steve Thomas @stevecacophony.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
London-reachable people have two days, two days!, in which they can still catch this marvellous thing: sohoplace.org/shows/tao-of... @openspacer.bsky.social
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Tao of Glass @sohoplace | Official Box Office
The West End premiere of Tao of Glass featuring music by Philip Glass and presented by Phelim McDermott comes to @sohoplace for a limited run.
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Even more impressive on a second encounter. The precision choreography, the seeming randomness, the unlimited potential of paper and sellotape (representing earth and air, fire and water, a Chinese sage, weather, birds, Philip Glass, Philip Glass's hair, ectoplasm (I think).
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David Collard @davidcollard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
See it if you possibly can - it explores where music comes from, how art is made, who we are deep down. A profoundly thoughtful, heartfelt work with many lovely silly moments. Phelim McDermott is such a warm and engaging performer, with four superb musicians and three terrific puppeteers.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/09/2026
Anyone venturing onto toxic platforms like Facebook and Twitter at the moment will see an endless wave of abuse of the RNLI. But on the plus side. The RNLI are reporting a "significant increase" in donations this week. Let's be part of it..... 👇
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richardswsmith.bsky.social @richardswsmith.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Attempting to capture the Tao of Philip Glass
The actor and director Phelim McDermott certainly knows how to tell a story and put on a show, but did the magnificent Tao of Glass have a message or an argument? Mildly stunned after the performan…
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Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Saw Phelim McDermott's Tao of Glass last night. Terrific theatre with new music by Glass (who took part in the first run in Manchester), puppetry, great use of theatre in the round, an eccentric but compelling confessional narrative, exploration of the roots of creativity and more.
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Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Rare appearance from the brillliant Irish comedian, Ian Coppinger.
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The School of Night @schoolofnight.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Retro gallery time... Don't forget, we're BACK (in Kent) this autumn - at #Folkestone #Quarterhouse on Sat Oct 11 (6pm) as part of the #FolkestoneLive festival - and then back at @perrycourt.farm on Sun Nov 15th for a special Dickens-themed show. Come and share the madn- sorry, creativity....
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John Earls @johnearls.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My latest ‘Hanging Out a Window’ column has just been published and it’s a review of Phelim McDermott's (@openspacer.bsky.social) fabulous 'Tao of Glass' at Soho Place. Read and subscribe (free) here: johnearls.substack.com/p/theatre-re...
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Phelim McDermott @openspacer.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I love this record of the show…
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Richard Vranch @richardvranch.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We've been going quite a while. This Sunday @thecomedystore.co.uk the line-up is @richardvranch.bsky.social Josie Lawrence @leesimpson.bsky.social Ruth Bratt and Ian Coppinger with @kirstynewton.bsky.social on piano. (Image uses clip art.)
Clip art of the Bayeux Tapestry group Comedie Store Playeax
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Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bratt is back! Yay!
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Cat Mac @catherinemac.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Looking forward to this in a couple of weeks - a double bill ot The Two McClanes (Alexander McWilliam & Seamus Allen) and The Folkestone Improv Theatre team led by Lucy Trodd. Will be a fun night! #Improv #Maidstone www.parkwoodtheatres.co.uk/hazlitt-thea...
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Maidstone Improv Festival - Improvaganza! - The Hazlitt Theatre | Parkwood Theatres
Maidstone Improv Festival - Improvaganza! - The Hazlitt Theatre
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BiFuriosa @bifuriosa.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Theatre tip: see, if you have not already, 'Tao of Glass'.
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Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Wondering what the highlight of your Bank Holiday Weekend might be? Treat yourself to these idiots.
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Illuminations @illuminations.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Captivated by Phelim McDermott, puppeteers and musicians in Tao of Glass at Soho Place. Beautiful and strange and engaging and funny, about memory and mortality, theatre and stories, ghosts, illusion and quantum reality. Our £25 second balcony tickets were a bargain. sohoplace.org/shows/tao-of...
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Tao of Glass @sohoplace | Official Box Office
The West End premiere of Tao of Glass featuring music by Philip Glass and presented by Phelim McDermott comes to @sohoplace for a limited run.
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Cat Mac @catherinemac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I mentioned a brilliant smoke alarm song on Sunday. Josie effortlessly knocks it out the park again! I'm so lucky to be able to see this show as often as I do. Different lineups but consistently brilliant. Plus BH weekend we've the extra joy of no work Monday! www.instagram.com/reel/Dcijx2r...
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Simon Bowden @justbeauty333.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
What is music? Where does it come from? What does it mean? See the JustBeauty Blog, where we review Tao of Glass, an amazing mixed-media show which explores the link between the music of Philip Glass and ancient Chinese wisdom. www.justbeautyportal.com/just-art/tao...
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Tao of Glass - Just Beauty Portal
The question is pursued with the lightest, humorous touch by the actor, writer and co-director Phelim McDermott. When the show begins, a spotlight falls not
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Tom Morton-Smith @tommortonsmith.com · 26/08/2026
I think the chicken scene is my proudest addition to Totoro.
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Kerri aka Fallen Angel @fallenangel2106.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is a brilliant line up. I can't be there as I have a wedding half way up the country to be at, but if you are looking for something fab to do this weekend, book this, go along, laugh yourself silly and thank me on Monday.
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Lee Simpson @leesimpson.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
@neilmullarkey.com is coming back to play (and it's not a school night). Add some fun to your Bank Holiday weekend. @comedystoreuk.bsky.social
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Improbable @improbable1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Some of the wonderful My Neighbour Totoro neighbourhood from the last 4 years came to watch Tao of Glass at @sohoplace last night. They were joined by the Improbable team and some of our fabulous Improbable People! It was joyous to catch up with you all 🌱
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Neil Mullarkey @neilmullarkey.com · 25/08/2026
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Improbable @improbable1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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totoroshow.bsky.social @totoroshow.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Everyone is welcome in the neighbourhood! 💚✨ Experience the magic of the forest with our assisted performances. Head to the link below to find out more and book your visit. totoroshow.com/assisted-per... #FindYourSpirit
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