It’s good, but I wouldn’t open with it. Performed by Simon Callow and based on the 16 satires of Roman poet Juvenal, Juvenalia is billed as stand-up from the 1st Century. And although the gags won’t ...

Food and drink were plentiful, Roman order was turned upside down. Enslaved people were given their freedom and treated as equals for a month. Romans also observed Juvenalia, a feast honoring the ...

In actuality it's closer in feel to an after-dinner speech, as Callow, dressed in dinner suit and sipping from a tumbler, imagines the Roman poet and satirist Juvenal ... But I don't count Juvenalia ...