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Banging Denmark
Finborough Theatre
RECEIVING its European premiere, Van Badham’s play is a sparkling rom com that dissects some of the controversial, contemporary issues with dating.
Tom Kay plays the successful, misogynist podcaster and self-help, pick-up artist, Jake Newhouse, aka Guy Dewitt. His uncompromising sexist broadcasts to needy males going by such absurd pseudonyms as Hammerhead and Mr Tearsdry might sound as if they are out of an Andrew Tate playbook if they were not so comically ridiculous.
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