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ZooNation Dance Company - Some Like It Hip Hop

Peacock Theatre, Inner London
From: Friday, 3rd May 2013
To: Sunday, 30 June 2013

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Synopsis

ZooNation Dance Company was founded in 2002 by Kate Prince. In 2006, the company premiered Into the Hoods, which went on to become the longest running dance show the West End has ever seen. In 2010 ZooNation became a Resident Company at Sadler's Wells, and Kate Prince became an Associate Artist.

Our Review:

9 May 2013

I didn't realise that I had stumbled into the opening night encore of La Traviata at La Scala in Milan, until I realised I hadn't. This was most definitely Holborn, and I was sitting in the stalls of the Peacock Theatre surrounded by screaming fans - not just teenagers, and not just girls either. ZooNation have returned with their smash hit Some Like it Hip Hop, and it's still pulling in sell-out crowds.

More Twelfth Night than Some Like it Hot, the story sees oppressive Governor turn an imaginary city into a totalitarian nightmare by blocking out the sun, banning books and putting women to work in the most demeaning jobs.

Workers are enslaved and manipulated by the Governor's cronies but when two women dressed as men prove they can do the same, if not better than their counterparts, things start to look up. Buddying up with the nerdy bookworm Simeon Sun (Tommy Franzén - a spectacularly talented dancer and clown) the...

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