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Wilcox Road South Lambeth Competition

Wilcox Road South Lambeth Competition, New London Architecture Contest, LFA 2022, SW8 Street

Wilcox Road South Lambeth Design Competition

13 January 2022

London Festival of Architecture and Lambeth Council launch design competition to animate Wilcox Road in South Lambeth.

Location: South Lambeth, South London, England, UK

Nine Elms Tube Station seen from Wilcox Road, South Lambeth:

LFA launches new design competition with Lambeth Council

Location: Wilcox Road, South Lambeth, SW8, London, England, UK

The London Festival of Architecture and the Neighbourhood Regeneration Team at Lambeth Council have launched a new design competition, which invites architects, landscape architects, designers, artists, and creatives from across London, to develop and submit a proposal that animates Wilcox Road in Lambeth and transforms it into a welcoming gateway to the newly opened Nine Elms Tube Station.

Sitting across from Nine Elms Tube Station and connecting Wandsworth Road to South Lambeth Road, Wilcox Road provides a crucial link between the borough of Lambeth and Wandsworth. Wilcox Road is also home to a mix of establishments, including retail, hospitality, construction, personal care, as well as residential homes. The area is also characterised by a significant presence of Portuguese nationals, who contribute to create a diverse mix of businesses and vibrant character.

The design competition aims to provide a public realm intervention that will act as a gateway between the Nine Elms Tube Station and Wilcox Road. The proposals should capitalise on the proximity and footfall of the new Nine Elms Tube Station and seek to strengthen road connections, particularly the East-West link into Nine Elms and through to South Lambeth Road via Arch 42.

This competition is part of Lambeth Council’s Economic Resilience Strategy, whose ambition is to create an inclusive and resilient economy in Lambeth. One that creates opportunities for local businesses and enables the council to thrive financially to deliver core public services. Wilcox Road competition, therefore, aims to provide physical public realm interventions, creating a welcoming neighbourhood that in turn aids economic recovery and brings new attention to the area.

Wilcox Road, South Lambeth, SW8, London, UK:

The winning team will be announced in April 2022 and awarded £65,000 + VAT (which includes a £10,000 design fee) to develop a fully costed, feasible design that can be delivered in the summer/autumn 2022. The winning scheme will remain in-situ for a minimum of 10 years.

Interested applicants are invited to submit their proposals by midday on Thursday 17th February.

Information for applicants is available at www.londonfestivalofarchitecture.org/competitions

Rosa Rogina, Director of London Festival of Architecture, said: “Following the success of Arch 42 Gateways competition in 2021, we are looking forward to delivering another exciting design competition in the area. Harnessing creativity and design talent to achieve positive change for Lambeth is fundamental to our mission. This competition is a great opportunity for creatives to showcase their talent and demonstrate how design can bring together local communities and transform a public road into a bold local landmark for the benefits of residents and visitors alike”.

Cllr Sonia Winifred, Cabinet Member for Equalities and Culture, said: “This is a unique opportunity for a new or emerging artist to leave their mark on one of our most exciting neighbourhoods and be enjoyed for years to come. It could become one of the first sights visitors see when they leave Nine Elms station to explore Nine Elms. I would encourage all artists, designers, or creative minds to consider how they can help enhance this local centre. Wilcox Road brings together so many people from different backgrounds, I hope the winning artwork will reflect the diversity of the area now and in the future.”

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London Festival of Architecture

London Festival of Architecture (LFA) is the world’s largest annual architecture festival and is exploring the theme of ‘act’ in 2022. Part of New London Architecture (NLA), LFA has a mission to support London’s architectural and design talent, enthuse and engage with the public, and find new ways to look at familiar places.

With its growing year-round presence, LFA seeks to inspire and engage the public with an events programme that showcases London as a global architecture hub. LFA 2021 explored the theme of ‘care’ through a hybrid programme of digital and physical events, inspiring over 400 events across the capital and attracting a global audience of 110,000. Our digital projects attracted over 8,000 views from 64 countries worldwide including Australia, India, the USA, France, Philippines, Kenya, and Taiwan.

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Lambeth Council

The London Borough of Lambeth is home to many diverse communities. It includes the world class cultural hub of the South Bank, the bustling street markets of Brixton, the open spaces of Clapham and Streatham Commons and the exciting regeneration of Vauxhall. The borough is rich in history and is very well connected, close to central London and the City.

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GMB weatherman Alex Beresford pays tribute to murdered cousin

Kyall Parnell was the first victim of London’s year of violence, he was stabbed on the night of New Year’s Eve

Vijay Patel was beaten to death in January after refusing to buy Rizla cigarette papers for a teenager

January

1) Kyall Parnell, 17, was attacked in front of horrified revellers on his way to a New Year’s Eve party and died after being chased through traffic in Tulse Hill, south London. A murder investigation was opened in 2018.

2) Steve Frank Navarez-Jara was the first person to be killed in 2018. The 20-year-old was stabbed on New Year’s Day in Old Street, north London.

3) Elizabeta Lacatusu, 44, who came to London from Romania to work, was stabbed in Redbridge, east London on January 3.

4) Vijay Patel, 49, died on January 6 after being attacked outside a shop in Mill Hill Broadway after refusing a teenager trying to buy Rizla cigarette papers.

5) Daniel Frederick, 34, died after being stabbed in Hackney on January 8 while walking home after attending a hospital check-up with his pregnant partner.

6) Harry Uzoka, 25, worked as a model in London and was knifed in the heart in Shepherd’s Bush on January 11.

7) Seyed Azim Khan’s body was found in Ilford Cemetery with extensive head injuries in February after he went missing on his way home from work on January 24.

8) Yaya Mbye, 26, died in hospital after being stabbed in Stoke Newington. east London, on January 28.

9) Juan Olmos Saca, 39, was stabbed in the chest in Peckham, south east London, on the January 29 and died a week in hospital.

10) Khader Saleh, 25, was stabbed at Wormwood Scrubs prison on January 31.

11) Eleven-week-old Lily-Mai Saint George was found unresponsive at an address in Tottenham on January 31. She died at Great Ormond Street Hospital three days later.

February

12) Hassan Ozcan was just 19 when he died from multiple stab wounds in Barking, east London, on February 3.

13) Kwabena Nelson, 22, a youth worker from Tottenham, died after being stabbed near his home on February 3.

Elizabeta Lacatusu had her throat slashed in Ilford

Hannah Leonard was stabbed in a flat in Camden in February

14) Hannah Leonard, 55, was stabbed in a flat in Camden on February 8.

15) Sabri Chibani, 19, was stabbed in the chest in Streatham, south west London, on February 11.

16) Bulent Kabala was the first victim to be shot dead in 2018. The 41-year-old was gunned down on February 12 and died at the scene in Barnet, north London.

17) Saeeda Hussain, 54, was stabbed at a house in Ilford on February 13 and died from her injuries.

18) Lord Promise Nkenda was just 17 when he was stabbed in Canning Town, east London, on Valentine’s Day.

19) Mark Smith, 48, died from multiple injuries after being found unconscious in Waltham Forest on February 15.

20) Lewis Blackman, 19, was stabbed in the early hours of February 18 after going to a house party in Kensington. He died outside the former home of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury.

21) Jozef Boci, 30, suffered serious head injuries after being attacked on the street in Greenwich on February 17 and died in hospital just under a week later.

22) Rotimi Oshibanjo, 26, was stabbed in Southall on February 19 and died from his injuries.

23) Sadiq Mohammed, 20, died after being stabbed in Camden on February 20.

24) Abdikarim Hassan, 17, a friend of Sadiq, died on the same night after also being stabbed in Camden.

25) Amir Ellouizi, 24, was shot in Westminster on February 20 and died seven days later on February 27.

March

26) Michael Boyle, 44, died from a single stab wound to the chest. He was attacked on 25 February and died in hospital on March 10.

27) Christopher Beaumont, 42, was stabbed at a house in Hammersmith on March 1.

28) Laura Figueira, 47, was found dead at her home in Richmond, south west London, on March 5th having suffered stab wounds.

29 and 30) Later the same day, her husband Adelino Figueia de Faria, 57 and two young sons Claudio, 10, and Joaquin, 7, were discovered at the bottom of Beachy Head at Birling Gap, East Sussex, with all three having died from ‘multiple injuries consistent with falling from a height’.

Russian socialite Nikolai Glushkov was strangled at his home in New Malden

31) Kelva Smith was 20 when he died after being stabbed in the stomach in Croydon, south London.

32) Kelvin Odunuyi, 19, was shot outside a cinema in Wood Green on March 8.

33) Julian Joseph, 36, died in hospital 11 days after being attacked and suffering a serious head injury on a night bus in New Cross just after midnight of March 13.

34) Nikolai Glushkov, 68, died from compression to the neck in New Malden on March 13.

35) Joseph William-Torres, 20, was shot in a car in in Essex Close, Walthamstow on March 14. Two teens, 15 and 17, charged with murder.

36) Lyndon Davis was 18 when he was stabbed in Chadwell Heath on March 14.

37) Naomi Hersi, 36, was found with stab wounds at a hotel near Heathrow Airport on March 16 and was pronounced dead 30 minutes later.

Jozef Boci, 30, was assaulted in Greenwich and later died from his injuries

38) Russell Jones, 23, died after suffering from stab injuries and a gunshot wound in Enfield, north London, on March 17.

39) Tyrone Silcott, 41, died after being stabbed in Hackney on March 18.

40) Balbir Johal, 48, was admitted to hospital with stab wounds after being attacked in Southall on March 19 and died a few hours later.

41) Jermaine Johnson, 41, was stabbed to death an an address in Walthamstow on March 19.

42) Beniamin Pieknyi, 21, was found with stab wounds at the Stratford shopping centre in East London, on March 20 and was pronounced dead at the scene.

43) Abraham Badru, 26, was shot in Dalston on March 25.

44) Wieslaw Kopcynski, 59, died on March 27th two days after being found lying in bed in Barking with serious head injuries following a suspected assault. A post-mortem found the cause of death was a complex skull fracture

45) David Potter, 50, was found dead inside a house in Tooting High Street on March 26 after suffering from stab injuries.

Hersi Hersi was stabbed in Hounslow in March

46) Reece Tshoma was 23 when he was stabbed in Plumstead, south east London, on March 29.

47) Leyla Mtumwa, 36, was found with stab wounds at a home in Haringey on March 30.

48) Ourania Lambrou, 80, died in hospital after being pushed to the ground by her attacker in a drunken rage in Camden on March 31.

April

49) Devoy Stapleton, 20, stabbed outside bar in Wandsworth in the early hours of April 1.

50) Tanesha Melbourne, 17, was shot in the chest on April 2 after a drive-by shooting in Tottenham, north London.

51) Amaan Shakoor, 16, was shot in the face, also on April 2 in Walthamstow and died a day later in hospital.

52) Career criminal Henry Vincent, 37, died after being stabbed in the chest as he burgled Richard Osborn-Brooks’ house in Lewisham on April 4. The 78-year-old was initially arrested for murder but cleared of all charges and faces no further action.

53) Babatunde Akintayo Awofeso, 53, died after fight at a bookmakers in Upper Clapton on April 4 following reports of an altercation with another man.

Russell Jones, 23, became the eighth person in a week to be killed in London in March when he was ambushed outside shops in Enfield

54) Israel Ogunsola, 18, in Hackney after being stabbed, also on April 4. The victim approached police who performed first aid but he died at the scene after 25 minutes.

55) John Maclean, 35, stabbed at a flat in the Isle of Dogs on April 12th.

56) Raul Nicolaie, 26, stabbed to death in Zenith Close, Colindale at 6pm on Sunday, April 15th.

57) Natasha Hill, 18, found dead with head injuries at an address in Sewell Road, Abbey Wood at 4.22am on Sunday April 15.

58) Samantha Clarke, 30s, stabbed to death in Sudbourne Road, Brixton, at 6:30pm on Sunday, April 15th.

59) Sami Sidhom, 18, who studied law and history at Queen Mary University, was stabbed in the back just yards from his home in Forest Gate, east London, after going to the West Ham v Stoke game on April 16.

60) Builder John Woodward, 47, found dead on the roof of the Pressman Mastermelts building in Hatton Garden on April 17. Post-mortem gave cause of death as blunt force trauma to the head.

61) Aaron Springett, 32, died after street fight outside bookies in Merton, south west London, after suffering from a blunt force trauma to the chest on April 20.

There was outcry in April when Tanesha Melbourne, 17, was shot in the chest in Tottenham

62) Kwasi Anim-Boadu, 20, stabbed during a mass brawl in Seven Sisters Road, Finsbury Park, north London, on April 21.

May

63) Leon Maxwell, 38, shot outside Queensbury tube station on May 1. A 26-year-old man also shot went to a north London hospital.

64) Rhyhiem Barton, 17, shot dead in broad daylight near his family’s flat in Kennington on May 5th.

65) Onees Khatoon, 71, murdered at her home in Gade Close, Hayes, on May 13. Her son Majid Butt, 51, has been charged.

66) Rosina Coleman, 85, found battered to death at her home in Romford on May 15.

67) Abdulrahman Nassor Juma, 24, known to friends as Mani, fatally stabbed in the chest in Barking on May 17.

68) Osman Shidane, 20, stabbed repeatedly in Ruislip on evening of May 15, died three days later on Friday May 18.

69) Homeless Arunesh Thangarajah, 28, stabbed to death in Mitcham in early hours of Sunday May 20th.

Rosina Coleman was battered to death at her home in Romford in May

70) Sophie Cavanagh, 31, viciously attacked at an address in Bromley around 6pm on Sunday May 20.

71) Father-of-two Marcel Campbell, 30, from Tottenham, fatally stabbed outside an ice cream parlour in Islington on Monday May 21st.

72) Gerry Gaffney, 46, died in hospital on May 21st, eight days after being repeatedly stabbed near The Oval cricket ground in south London on Sunday May 14th.

73) Molly Frank, 61, a care worker, suffered fatal head injuries at an Islington residential home on May 24 and died in hospital the next day. A special post-mortem examination gave the cause of death as intra-cerebral haemorrhage.

74) Aspiring actress and singer Bethany-Maria Beales, 22, fell to her death from the 19th floor of The Heron, a 36-storey residential skyscraper in the City on May 26.

75) Mark Fontaine, 41, from Walthamstow, repeatedly stabbed in Chelsea on May 30.

June

76) Andra Hilitanu, 28, who was seven months pregnant with her third child, found stabbed in the neck at her flat in Brent on June 1st. The Romanian national’s family revealed that her unborn child also died.

77) Edmond Jonuzi, a 35-year-old Albanian, was knifed in park and collapsed near Turnpike Lane station in north London on the evening of Saturday June 9th.

Katerina Makunova, 17, was stabbed to in Camberwell in July

78) Gitana Matukeviciene, 50 and originally from Lithuania, found with multiple injuries at a residential address in Dagenham on Saturday June 9th never regained consciousness and was pronounced dead on Tuesday June 12th.

79) Mark Tremain, 52, died from his injuries on June 14th two weeks after being badly beaten near his home in Albert Square, Stockwell, on May 31st.

80) Apprentice lift engineer Joshua Boadu, 23, died in hospital on June 18th, seven days after being repeatedly stabbed in Bermondsey.

81) Matthew Thomas, 39, died shortly after being found with multiple injuries at a flat in Pimlico on Thursday June 21st.

82) Slawomir Weglarski, 39, died after a fight outside a pub in Greenford in the early hours of Saturday June 23rd.

83) Gita Suri, 56, found with stab wounds to her back in the garden of a house in Greenwich on Saturday June 23rd.

84) Schoolboy Jordan Douherty, 15, from Chafford Hundred, stabbed to death after a birthday party in Romford on Saturday June 23rd.

85) Ishak Tacine, 20, of Enfield, repeatedly stabbed in Edmonton following reports of an altercation between men armed with baseball bats on June 27th.

July

Drill rapper Latwaan Griffiths died of stab wounds after he was dumped in a Camberwell street by a moped rider

86) Elderly woman Shuren Ma, 72, found with a fatal head injury at a house in Woolwich on July 1st.

87) Janek Brakonecki, 57, a Polish national, found critically injured in a car park off Leytonstone High Road on Saturday July 7th.

88) Katerina Makunova, 17, stabbed to death in a block of flats in Camberwell on Thursday July 12th

89) Latwaan Griffiths, 18, from Southwark, died in hospital hours after being found with stab wounds in Denmark Road, Camberwell, on July 25. He had been dumped in the street by a moped rider.

90) Sheila Thomas, 69, was found stabbed to death at her home in Casino Avenue, Herne Hill on Tuesday July 31st.

August

91) Drill rapper Sidique Kamara, 23, aka Incognito, stabbed to death in Camberwell in an alleged gang feud on August 1.

92) Thomas Peter, 50, of Valentines Way, Dagenham, has been charged with murder and arson with intent to endanger life after woman found dead in east London on Thursday August 2nd.

Joel Urhie was found dead inside the burnt-out shell of his family home in Deptford

93) Malik Chattun, 22, from Surbiton, stabbed to death in group fight in Kingston just after 2am on Aug 5.

94) Seven-year-old Joel Urhie died in arson attack on his family home in Adolphus Street, Deptford, just before 3.30am on Tuesday August 7th.

95) Simonne Kerr, 31, A nurse who starred as part of a the B Positive choir who reached the final of this year’s Britain’s Got Talent, stabbed to death at an address in Grayshott Road, Battersea, on Wednesday August 15th.

96) Joseph Cullimore, 42, died after being repeatedly stabbed at a house in Chingford in the early hours of Friday August 17th.

97) Gary Amer, 63, a plumber of Holborn, found with multiple knife wounds at an address off the Old Kent Road on the afternoon of Friday August 17th.

98) Leroy ‘Junior’ Edwards, 66, found with multiple stab wound at an address in Catford in the early hours of Saturday August 18th.

99) Kaltoun Saleh was badly burnt in a fire at a flat in Finsbury Park on July 5th and died at a specialist burns hospital on Tuesday August 21st.

100) Carole Harrison, 73, found dead inside her house in Teddington following a fire on Wednesday August 22nd. A post-mortem found she had suffered injuries consistent with an assault.

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Walk on the wild side

A large-scale clean-up of Deptford Creek in 2001 saw 200 shopping trolleys removed from its waters. Today the Creekside Discovery Centre leads regular low-tide walks along the waterway, allowing visitors to enjoy an amazing array of urban wildlife

Words by Seamus Hasson

Veteran broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough recently called on the British public to stop squabbling over Brexit and count butterflies instead.

He was speaking to Radio 4 in support of a national campaign to encourage people to spot and record online the different types of butterfly they come across, in what he hopes will be the world’s biggest butterfly count.

For Lewisham residents, Deptford Creek is a great place to start looking. In addition to numerous varieties of butterflies, the creek boasts a plethora of wildlife and has more than 300 species of wild flowers surviving in the river and in the surrounding conservation area.

The Creekside Discovery Centre is responsible for the long-term management of the creek for people and wildlife. It also looks after the Sue Godfrey Nature Park on behalf of Lewisham Council.

As well as carrying out essential conservation work, the centre, which launched 16 years ago, organises low-tide walks for schoolchildren as well as adult groups and members of the public.

The walks focus on the River Ravensbourne and the tidal stretch where it flows into the Thames at Deptford Creek, taking in the plants, wildlife and ecology of the once heavily industrialised area.

Today it’s a wonderfully tranquil space that is surrounded by plants and wildlife, which offers visitors the chance to escape the hustle and bustle of the city without leaving inner London.

Sophie Amos, a coordinator at the centre, says the creek is one of London’s best-kept secrets. “We take up to 35 members of the public on this walk through Deptford Creek so people get to experience urban wildlife,” she says.

“A lot of people have misconceptions about the river and the Thames – they think it’s dirty and when they come into the creek they look at all the mud, when actually that’s just the sediment coming in with the tide. The river is probably the cleanest it’s ever been.”

The centre provides waders, a walking stick and raincoat if necessary to those taking part. Its guides are all trained in first aid and the highest standards of health and safety are applied.

The walks are led by Nick Bertrand, the centre’s conservationist, who has worked in nature conservation in inner London for more than 30 years. Two further members of the team deliver education sessions.

A large part of the centre’s purpose is to organise walks for schoolchildren. There’s a pond with disability access where people can cast a net to find small fish – mainly sticklebacks. The pond is also home to newts, frogs, toads, water boatmen and pond skaters.

One of the most fascinating discoveries I make during my visit to the Creekside Discovery Centre is that eels arrive at the creek from the West Indies travelling on ocean currents. At three to four years old they’re still tiny and can live for 60 or 70 years.

“We do environmental education, which is part of the school curriculum,” says Sophie. “We bring young schoolchildren from year two into the creek and have more than 5,000 schoolchildren a year visiting us from 10 London boroughs.

“Predominantly they’re from Lewisham and Greenwich but increasingly we get schools from Camden and Wandsworth because it’s such a unique thing to do. While so many children now are about screen time, we’re all about green time, which I think is important.

“It’s practical learning out of the classroom as well. If you’re explaining something like high tide to a child, you cannot explain it better than coming to visit this place, walking in it and then leaving and seeing it four metres higher.”

A number of unusual as well as everyday objects that have been salvaged from the creek are displayed inside the centre. Ancient artefacts found in the bed of the creek are exhibited alongside animal bones from the old slaughterhouse that once stood on its banks.

Thrown into the mix are old Nokias, meat hooks, fragments of old pots and other ceramic items, candelabras, video tapes, golf balls, laptops and PlayStation controllers to name but a few. It’s a fascinating and eclectic blend to say the least.

While the centre carries out important conservation work, some of its endeavours have been more successful than others. In 2001, as part of the Deptford Single Regeneration Budget, a huge effort was made to clean up the creek and open up the walkways to the community.

As part of the clean-up operation 200 shopping trolleys were removed from the water. It was later discovered that the trolleys acted as the perfect hideout for small fish being pursued by larger hungry predators. The result was a depletion in the number of smaller fish surviving in the river. However, many other projects, such as a swan-breeding programme on the creek, have been much more successful.

Sophie joined the centre in September last year, after many years working in international development and the charity sector. She says she was attracted to the role having grown up on a farm and seeing first hand the effects that careless acts can have on biodiversity.

“I wanted to move into working more locally when this opportunity came up,” she explains. “It has really opened my eyes to the fact that urban conservation is there and it does exist.

“People think that you have to go out into the countryside to carry out conservation, but actually you don’t – there are small communities of plants and animals surviving in our cities. People don’t realise wildlife is all around them in London and it is accessible. It could be right on your street corner.”

For full listings of upcoming low-tide walks and family activities at the Creekside Discovery Centre, visit creeksidecentre.org.uk/events

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Jake Byrom as Rasputin with Robyn Hampton and Jessica Townsley. Photo by Zac Cooke.

The principal prerequisite for a successful musical is to get the sound right: quality, balance, tone and volume. Unfortunately, Rasputin Rocks fails to bring any of these crucial elements under control. Sound Engineer Ays Kura has, I’m afraid, to carry the can for this though both Musical Director Connor Fogel and the Director of the show (who we’ll come to later) must also hold up their hands and take responsibility.

There’s a great little chorus trio of singer/dancers – Robyn Hampton, Charlotte Shaw and Jessica Townsley – who pop up in various guises throughout the show and who belt out the opening number but we immediately see that the sound failings are crucially evident in any ensemble/chorus numbers, in which voices appear to be competing rather than harmonising. And the balance is so poor that we have to endure a cacophonous mishmash of unrelated sounds in which the lyrics if there are any, are entirely indecipherable.

Purely for the visual symmetry of the stage setting the four-piece band is split into two – guitar and drums on one side, bass and keyboard – played by the MD – on the other. It’s quite a wide stage. Why do bands of all different styles, scope and size never do this? Because it doesn’t work. The onstage band needs to be together, next to each other, as a tight-knit group.

Maria Alexe as the Emperor of Russia with Robyn Hampton, Charlotte Shaw and Jessica Townsley as the Kremlin Imperial Guard. Photo by Zac Cooke.

And the completely overpowering prominence of the drums – drummer Livio Polisano only has two stops on his kit – loud and louder – makes any semblance of balance impossible. The ho-hum derivative score is by Alistair Smith who surely cannot be sitting in the auditorium thinking: this is exactly how I want my music to be delivered.

The set (Jamie Owens) – consists of four tri-lite towers on trucks which are fussily swivelled and adjusted constantly by actors throughout the show to no discernible effect and these are complemented by the worst lighting design (Daniel Spreadborough) I have seen on the London stage this year. The Stockwell Playhouse has a great set of LX toys: use them!

So to the plot: it’s a kind of Kingsman meets the Thick of It. Female Emperor of Russia (I thought that was an Empress but hey, let’s not wake up the gender police) is dying so wants to destroy the world – cue EML (evil manic laughter). There’s a Resistance, of course (there’s always a Resistance) who she’s going to brutally put down – cue MEML (more evil manic laughter). Her secret weapon to help achieve her nightmare is Rasputin. Yes, that Rasputin – mad monk and beardy weirdo – cue LMEML (lots more… you get the picture). Rasputin, wouldn’t you know it, was frozen alive back in the day and now is being melted (is that the term?) a hundred years later. The hard graft of melting falls to a group of hi-vis- jacketed, manual-labouring Poles (no racial stereotyping here, then). And into all this wanders, entirely unaccountably, Tony Blair – cue EMS (evil manic smiling). The Blair sequences, full of intricate Blairist detail, are mildly amusing and vaguely satirical but what the borsch are they doing here? It’s kind of like the writer wanted to do a satire on our erstwhile leader and needed a vehicle to do so and thus the melting of Rasputin seemed a reasonable way to combine EMS with EML. This was all unfathomable to me until I read the programme – after the show as is my wont. The plum role of Tony Blair is played (or pretty much mimed as much of his dialogue is sub-sotto voce) by Andrew Hobbs. The show is written by Andrew Hobbs. The show is directed by … Andrew Hobbs (tell yourself to speak up, Andrew!) So whilst everything points to Rasputin Rocks actually being the Tony Blair show it is, in fact, the Andrew Hobbs show.

The one really good singer in the troupe is Tanya Truman as rebel Svetlana who makes a good fist of rising above the disjointed band with the overwhelming drums. Jake Byron as Rasputin, complete with awful fright-beard that doesn’t match his stubble, lurches from ranty-snarly to whispery-smarmy with nothing in between: in other words from indecipherable to inaudible. He screech-screams his numbers with a good dollop of EMC (Evil Manic Caterwauling) and seems to think that a bit of mad staring and eye-rolling is all you need to create the character of a mad monk.

The audibility problems are exacerbated by the bewildering variety of cod Russian accents on display. Difficult to sustain, of course, during the two and a half hour length of the show, but when these falter a bit we can at least make out what they are saying. Chief culprit for indecipherable accent combined with “stage whispers are my thing” is the strange Frank Spenser-esque character, Anton. He delivers his first line from the front row facing the stage.

Apparently, it was funny as the people sitting next to him laughed but goodness knows what he said. At least the cast – and director – could hear him. Anton, despite having to change into bright pink trousers due to some kind of unspeakable accident – a rather laboured device to get a cheap laugh – inevitably turns into a hero of the resistance rescuing Tony Blair. But we still can’t make out what he’s saying.

At one point Tony Blair blurts out “Enough of this idle prattling”: believe me, bro, I feel your pain. And, Mr Hobbs, on this very day when The Old Vic gave an unreserved apology to the twenty people from our industry who had their lives seriously affected by the inappropriate behaviour of its former artistic director it is unseemly and disrespectful to try and get some bargain-basement humour out of a name-check for Kevin Spacey.

Review by Peter Yates

Set in the near future, Rasputin Rocks! features an insane Russian emperor who’s been diagnosed with a terminal illness and decides to take the whole world with him in a global nuclear armageddon. He has also discovered that the legendary mad monk Rasputin has never in fact died. After Rasputin’s would be assassins failed to kill him, they instead froze him in a vast underground icy prison, which the Emperor has now located and released him from to aid him in his evil plan. Only hero of the free world Tony Blair and a ragtag group of revolutionaries led by Svetlana who are obsessed with the cheesier aspects of Western culture stand between them and the end of the world.

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