JERMAIN DEFOE Thinking On His Feet - Mayfair Times

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what’s on events
what’s on music
THURSDAY MAY 10
Objects of Desire: LAPADA Fine Art
and Antiques Fair
6 Burlington Gardens, Piccadilly, W1.
11am-8pm; May 11-12 11am-7pm;
May 13 11am-6pm.
Luxury fair with 70 dealers selling pieces
from ceramics to furniture to jewellery,
with experts on hand to offer opinions.
Info: 01636 702 326
www.lapadalondon.com
MONDAY 14
Sotheby’s Wine Course
Sotheby’s Grosvenor Galleries, Bloomfield
Place (off New Bond Street), W1. Monday
evenings 6.30pm-8pm, £240 (course of
six sessions). Runs until June 25.
Learn more about wines from different
regions, including Bordeaux, Italy,
Champagne and the New World. Each
session is hosted by a different expert.
Info: 020 7293 5727
www.sothebys.com
Beauty Week: Pure Massage
Fenwick, 63 New Bond Street, W1.
Monday-Saturday 10am-6.30pm,
Thursday until 8pm. Runs until May 19.
Pure Massage offers free hand massages
at its in-store clinic, with owner Beata
Aleksandrowicz personally conducting
them on May 16 and 18 (3pm to 6pm).
Info: 020 7629 9161
www.fenwick.co.uk
TUESDAY 15
Total Recall: A Unique Experiment
into the Mystery of Human Memory
Waterstone’s, 203-206 Piccadilly,
W1.10am, free. Also on May 16 and 17.
Professor Richard Wiseman launches his
THURSDAY MAY 10
Kitsch Lounge Riot: Joe Stilgoe
The Pigalle Club, 215 Piccadilly, W1.
Tickets £15 (show only), £40 (show and
two-course meal), £45 (show and threecourse
meal).
Jazz pianist and singer Joe Stilgoe, son
of West End lyricist Richard Stilgoe and
opera singer Annabel Hunt, performs.
Info: 0845 345 6053
www.vpmg.net/pigalle
Stephen Fretwell
St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1.
7.30pm, tickets £12.50.
Plus guests.
Info: 08700 600 100
www.ticketweb.co.uk
SATURDAY 12
Belmont Ensemble
St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1.
7.30pm, tickets £16, £12.
Peter G Dyson directs a programme
including popular works by Vivaldi,
Bach, Mozart and Handel.
Info: 020 7839 8362 (St Martin-in-the-
Fields box office)
www.sjpconcerts.org
SUNDAY 13
Glyndebourne Series:
Handel and Glyndebourne
Handel House Museum,
25 Brook Street, W1. 3pm,
tickets £13, £11 concessions.
book Quirkology with an experiment in
which volunteers in a glass laboratory look
at 10,000 photos to test their memory.
Info: 020 7851 2419
www.waterstones.com
WEDNESDAY 16
The Falklands: 25th Anniversary
Exhibition
Imperial War Museum, Lambeth Road,
SE1. Open daily 10am-6pm, free
admission. Runs until December 31.
To mark the 25th anniversary of the
Falklands conflict, this exhibition gives an
insight into the war through first-hand
accounts and personal items, including
diaries, medals, letters and drawings.
Info: 020 7416 5320/5321
www.iwm.org.uk/Falklands
SUNDAY 20
Poppy Walk
Starting from Victoria Embankment
Gardens, WC2. 11am (individuals and
Tenor Nathan Vale and soprano
Katherine Manley from the
Glyndebourne Chorus and
harpsichordist Julian Perkins perform.
Info: 020 7399 1953
www.handelhouse.org
THURSDAY 17
Glyndebourne Series:
Heavenly Pleas
Handel House Museum,
25 Brook Street, W1. 6.30pm,
tickets £9, £7.50 concessions.
Soprano Sarah Moule and
harpsichordist Bridget Cunningham
perform arias pleading for divine
intervention.
Info: 020 7399 1953
www.handelhouse.org
SATURDAY 19
Purcell Singers:
There is Sweet Music
St James’s Church, 197 Piccadilly, W1.
7.30pm, tickets £12.
Works by Tallis, Purcell and Elgar.
Info: 020 7381 0441
www.st-james-piccadilly.org
WEDNESDAY 30
Karen Louise
The Pigalle Club, 215 Piccadilly, W1.
7pm, admission free before 10pm,
£15 afterwards or £10 members.
Singer Karen Louise performs.
Info: 0845 345 6053
THURSDAY MAY 31
Rare Photobooks
Christie’s, King Street, SW1, 10.30am.
Christie’s second auction of rare
photobooks follows on from the
success of the inaugural sale last
year, which realised a total of
£643,832. Around 200 lots will
represent more than a century of
photography. The sale will feature the
work of many leading figures in the
field including Eadweard Muybridge,
Fox Talbot, Anna Atkins, Henri Cartier-
Bresson, Man Ray, Ed Ruscha and
Richard Prince. Individual estimates
range from £500 to £30,000.
what’s on film
ORIGINAL IMAGE FROM ‘COWBOY KATE’ BY SAM HASKINS (1965)
CHRISTIE’S IMAGES
families), 11.30am (groups). The Royal
British Legion requests that walkers aim to
raise £100 per person/family. Please book
in advance.
Join the Royal British Legion in a 10-mile
charity walk. Follow clues and questions
that can only be solved by doing the walk,
and enjoy refreshments along the way. The
route is suitable for everyone and there are
prizes for each entry category.
Info: 020 7302 7124
www.britishlegion.org.uk
TUESDAY 22
Chelsea Flower Show
Royal Hospital, SW3. Royal Horticultural
Society members only on Tuesday and
Wednesday. Tickets must be booked in
advance. Show ends 5.30pm Saturday,
May 26. Sale of display plants starts 4pm.
Visit the world-famous flower show.
Info: 0870 906 3780 (member bookings),
0870 906 3781 (non-member bookings)
www.rhs.org.uk
Fracture (15)
Wily Ted Crawford (Anthony Hopkins)
pits his wits against young star
prosecutor Willy Beachum (Ryan
Gosling), after shooting his unfaithful
wife. Already looking forward to a
lucrative new job in corporate law,
Beachum is keen to rush through his
last open-and-shut criminal case, but he
quickly finds his evidence unravelling.
The strength of this cat-and-mouse
tale is in the witty script and the
performances by Hopkins and Gosling. A
few one-liners raise laughs in spite of
iViva! 13th Spanish and Latin
American Film Festival on Tour
Curzon Mayfair, 38 Curzon Street, W1.
Sundays May 6-27, tickets £6.50.
Originally based at the Cornerhouse,
Manchester and toured by the
Independent Cinema Office, this is a
chance to see top Spanish and Latin
THURSDAY 24
Thomas Keneally
Waterstone’s, 203-206 Piccadilly, W1.
7pm, tickets £3.
The author of Schindler’s Ark reads from
his new novel, The Widow and Her Hero.
Info: 020 7851 2400
www.waterstones.com
MONDAY 28
Africa Day
Trafalgar Square. 12 noon-7pm, free.
Listen to African music, sample traditional
food and watch a procession.
www.london.gov.uk/mayor/culture/africaday
WEDNESDAY 30
All Tomorrow’s Pictures
Institute of Contemporary Arts, 12 Carlton
House Terrace, SW1. Runs until June 8.
Exhibition of photos on the theme of
“tomorrow” by 59 high-profile figures.
Info: 020 7930 3657 (box office)
www.ica.org.uk
the subject matter, and banter between
the two men keeps the film entertaining.
Hopkins borrows unashamedly from his
Hannibal Lecter role, but the fun he has
with his winking, grinning, goading
villain makes his performance a
pleasure. Gosling plays Beachum with
humour and charisma. But Beachum’s
romance with Nikki (Rosamund Pike) is
an unnecessary distraction. Or perhaps
that’s the point, because the plot
doesn’t stand up to close inspection.
Which is a shame, because it’s a wellacted
and funny film. Lucy Brown
RYAN GOSLING (LEFT) AND ANTHONY HOPKINS IN ‘FRACTURE’
American cinema, from coming-of-age
tales (7 Virgins) to the impact of the
Falklands War on Argentinians
(Iluminados Por El Fuego) to dark
comedy (Crimen Ferpecto). Contact the
cinema for more information.
Info: 0870 756 4621 (box office), 020
7495 0501 (recorded information).