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Stefania Licari: Medico
Museum of Comedy
Holborn, London
DR FOX, infamously, was neither a real doctor nor a real fox.
Dr Mario was actually Japanese, and given his carefree attitude to drug management, his medical qualifications are at best dubious.
Stefania Licari is both a real doctor and a real Italian, a trained actor and clown, and has stitched together all these disparate parts, foxily, for her debut solo show, Medico.
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