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Janis Joplin: Full Tilt
Theatre Royal Stratford East,
London E15
4/5
From a sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival to the first show in Royal Stratford’s 2016 season comes the tale of one of rock music’s greatest frontwomen.
Janis Joplin’s live-fast-die-young life, she was one of the first in the 27 club passing less than a month after Jimi Hendrix in September 1970 is so unique it’s little wonder director Cora Bissett wanted to put it to stage.
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