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62 Years Informing International & UK Visitors<br />
Est. 1956 Issue 3102<br />
Friday 8 <strong>June</strong>, 2018
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CONTENTS<br />
Events 4<br />
Hard Rock Cafe Celebrates 47th Birthday<br />
Quiz Night at Hogwarts<br />
West End Live Returns to Trafalgar Square<br />
Music 8<br />
Camden Choir Performs Handel’s Saul<br />
Summer Music in City Churches<br />
RAF Centenary Concert at the Barbican<br />
Exhibitions 12<br />
Gareth Edwards at Jill George Gallery<br />
Art in the Wake of World War One<br />
Refugee Week at Southbank Centre<br />
Theatre 16<br />
Translations<br />
New Booking Period for Hamilton<br />
Circolombia Headlines Underbelly<br />
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HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY PARADE<br />
The traditional Trooping the Colour ceremony – The Queen’s Birthday<br />
Parade – takes place this year on Saturday 9 <strong>June</strong>. The Colour will be<br />
trooped by 1st Battalion Coldstream Guards.<br />
This impressive display of pageantry is held in <strong>June</strong> each year<br />
to celebrate the official Birthday of the Sovereign and is carried out by<br />
Her Majesty’s personal troops, the Household Division, on Horse Guards<br />
Parade. Precisely as the clock strikes eleven, the Royal Procession arrives<br />
and The Queen takes the Royal Salute. The parade begins with the<br />
Inspection, as The Queen drives slowly down the ranks of all six Guards<br />
and then past the Household Cavalry.<br />
Crowds will throng the Mall all morning to see the procession and<br />
after the event, the Royal Family will gather on the balcony of<br />
Buckingham Palace to watch the RAF flypast at 13.00.<br />
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HARD ROCK CAFE LONDON<br />
CELEBRATES 47th BIRTHDAY<br />
It all started with two music-loving<br />
Americans who just wanted to find a<br />
good burger while living in London.<br />
Hard Rock’s founders had a vision to<br />
combine music, memorabilia and<br />
delicious all-American fare for a one-ofa-kind<br />
guest experience. On <strong>June</strong> 14,<br />
1971, they opened their own American<br />
style diner in an old Rolls Royce<br />
dealership and called it Hard Rock Cafe.<br />
The London cafe remains on this site<br />
to this day and will be celebrating their<br />
47th birthday on Thursday <strong>June</strong> 14,<br />
when the cafe will pay homage to 1971<br />
with an Original Legendary® Burger<br />
offer for just 71 pence per guest on a<br />
first-come, first-served basis from 11.00<br />
to 12.00. Hard Rock Cafe’s Original<br />
Legendary® Burger features a beef patty<br />
topped with smoked bacon, cheddar<br />
cheese, a golden fried onion ring, crisp<br />
lettuce and vine ripened tomato, served<br />
on a toasted brioche bun with Hard<br />
Rock’s seasoned fries. Just like the<br />
artists whose memorabilia lines the<br />
walls at Hard Rock Cafes around the<br />
world, the burgers that Hard Rock serves<br />
are nothing short of ‘Legendary’. All<br />
burgers are made with the highest<br />
quality meats, fresh toppings, savory<br />
sauces and rich, melted cheeses.<br />
In addition to 71 pence burgers, Hard<br />
Rock Cafe London’s staff will be<br />
dressing up 70’s style. Guests are also<br />
encouraged to wear disco era clothes<br />
and join in the festivities!<br />
THE ROYAL ACADEMY’S 250th<br />
ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONS<br />
The Royal Academy of Arts and<br />
London’s West End are celebrating 250<br />
Years of Art with Academician designed<br />
street flags by four internationally<br />
renowned artists, which sees art spill out<br />
onto the streets of London’s West End<br />
for the very first time.<br />
Available for the public to enjoy<br />
through <strong>June</strong> and July, an installation<br />
of over 200 flags will be displayed<br />
throughout Bond Street, Piccadilly,<br />
Regent Street, and Regent Street<br />
St James’s. The project will enable<br />
Londoners and visitors alike to<br />
experience new ways of encountering art<br />
and architecture in the heart of one of<br />
the world’s great creative cities.<br />
The West End partnership will see<br />
the streets of London transformed with<br />
individual and bespoke flag designs.<br />
Regent Street will be home to 100 of<br />
these flags, designed by renowned<br />
Pop-artist Joe Tilson RA, whose flags<br />
take inspiration from the historical<br />
architecture and churches of Venice, a<br />
theme he has been exploring for the past<br />
ten years and echoed in the architecture<br />
of Regent Street.<br />
Taking over Piccadilly are Grayson<br />
Perry RA’s 30 flags. The artist explained<br />
that he wanted his designs to ‘be like a<br />
series of doodles and sketches that just<br />
came about spontaneously’. The main<br />
influence of his style is from Asafo flags<br />
traditionally made by the Fante people of<br />
West Africa.<br />
Tim Marlow, Artistic Director, Royal<br />
Academy of Arts, said: ‘What a<br />
wonderful opportunity for four great<br />
Royal Academicians to be allowed to<br />
stage an epic intervention above the<br />
hallowed streets of London’s West End.<br />
This will therefore be the most<br />
expansive Summer Exhibition in our<br />
250-year history.’<br />
Grayson Perry flags in Piccadilly.<br />
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Gareth Edwards, 'Birth of a New Day Sunrise', oil on canvas<br />
100 x 110cm, 2018<br />
Gareth Edwards, 'Shifting Brilliances', oil on canvas<br />
100 x 110cm, 2018
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BRAND NEW QUIZ NIGHTS IN THE<br />
GREAT HALL AT HOGWARTS<br />
This July, for the first time, Harry<br />
Potter fans will be able to test their<br />
Wizarding World knowledge in the Great<br />
Hall of Hogwarts. Warner Bros. Studio<br />
Tour London is launching a series of<br />
Harry Potter quiz nights in the authentic<br />
set where Harry, Ron and Hermione sat<br />
their O.W.L. exams.<br />
Taking place on 5, 12 and 19 July,<br />
guests to these exclusive quiz nights will<br />
begin by exploring the Studio Tour<br />
during the current Goblet of Fire feature<br />
and enjoying a hot meal, drink and<br />
Butterbeer in the Backlot Café. After<br />
braving the Forbidden Forest and<br />
CHELSEA FC STADIUM TOURS<br />
OF STAMFORD BRIDGE<br />
For visitors to London, a tour of<br />
Stamford Bridge is not to be missed.<br />
Home of one of the world’s most iconic<br />
football clubs, its a fun, informative and<br />
unforgettable experience enjoyed by<br />
sports fans of all ages from all over the<br />
world. The guided hour-long tour will<br />
take you behind the scenes at one of the<br />
worlds greatest football clubs, giving<br />
visitors access to areas normally<br />
reserved for players and officials.<br />
Along the way you will visit various<br />
stands in the stadium, the press room,<br />
home and away dressing rooms, the<br />
tunnel and dug-out areas. All tours<br />
include entry to the Museum, giving the<br />
chance to see how Chelsea has evolved<br />
on and off the pitch over the years.<br />
Chelsea pride themselves on having<br />
guides who are both knowledgeable and<br />
enthusiastic about the club, and it's their<br />
passion that make the tours a truly<br />
memorable experience.<br />
Whilst at the Stadium, have lunch at<br />
Chelsea's very own Frankie's Sports Bar<br />
& Diner as part of the Tour and Lunch<br />
package. Frankie's is an American style<br />
sports bar, with 12 big screens. The<br />
menu includes American favourites,<br />
including pizza, burgers and New York<br />
cheesecake.<br />
Visitors can enjoy all their favourite<br />
sports while enjoying lunch after a tour<br />
around Stamford Bridge.<br />
A combined Tour and Lunch package<br />
includes a full stadium tour, entrance to<br />
the Chelsea FC Museum and a two<br />
course lunch from a set menu in<br />
Frankie's Sports Bar & Diner.<br />
Stamford Bridge is just a short walk<br />
from Fulham Broadway, which is on the<br />
District Line.<br />
For further information and to book a<br />
Stadium Tour online, visit the website at<br />
www.chelseafc.com/tours<br />
Chelsea lift the Premier League Trophy<br />
2016/2017.<br />
Photos: Getty Images<br />
browsing Diagon Alley, teams will take<br />
their seats to face off against fellow<br />
Harry Potter fans. Rounds of questions<br />
will test guests on their knowledge of<br />
Magical Artefacts, Defence Against the<br />
Dark Arts, Potions and Care of Magical<br />
Creatures among many others with the<br />
chance to win a collection of exclusive<br />
Warner Bros. Studio Tour London<br />
goodies.<br />
Tickets are priced at £65 per person.<br />
The package includes entrance to the<br />
Studio Tour, a hot meal, drink and<br />
Butterbeer in the Backlot Café and<br />
access to the Harry Potter quiz in the<br />
Great Hall. Teams should be a minimum<br />
of 6 people and a maximum of 12.<br />
Tickets will be available to purchase<br />
from 10.00 on 5 <strong>June</strong> and should be<br />
pre-booked online through the website<br />
www.wbstudiotour.co.uk/quiz-night<br />
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Photo: Pamela Raith.<br />
The cast of Bat Out of Hell at West End Live.<br />
WEST END LIVE RETURNS TO<br />
TRAFALGAR SQUARE<br />
Produced and organised by<br />
Westminster City Council and Society of<br />
London Theatre (SOLT), with support<br />
from the Mayor of London, West End<br />
LIVE is an annual highlight of London’s<br />
cultural calendar, with performances, fun<br />
photo opportunities, meet-and-greets,<br />
merchandise stalls, refreshments and<br />
sing-alongs attracting thousands of<br />
theatre fans young and old across the<br />
weekend.<br />
A packed schedule of productions will<br />
be performing, featuring popular crowdpleasers<br />
Disney’s The Lion King,<br />
Wicked, Les Misérables, Mamma Mia!,<br />
The Phantom Of The Opera, Disney’s<br />
Aladdin, Dreamgirls, Bat Out Of Hell The<br />
Musical, Kinky Boots, Matilda The<br />
Musical, Motown The Musical,<br />
Everybody’s Talking about Jamie and<br />
Thriller Live.<br />
Several new arrivals to London’s West<br />
End will also be making their West End<br />
LIVE debuts, including Tina: The Tina<br />
Turner Musical, Strictly Ballroom The<br />
Musical, Eugenius!, Brief Encounter,<br />
Little Shop Of Horrors, Chicago,<br />
Heathers The Musical, Kiss Me, Kate,<br />
Knights Of The Rose, Six, Circolombia<br />
and Madagascar – A Musical Adventure.<br />
The colourful showcase will<br />
culminate in a performance from charttopping<br />
Britain’s Got Talent winners<br />
Collabro on Saturday 16 <strong>June</strong>, and an<br />
exclusive cabaret of West End stars on<br />
Sunday 17 <strong>June</strong>.<br />
NEW ENGLISH ART CLUB ANNUAL<br />
EXHIBITION<br />
The New English Art Club is a vibrant<br />
and diverse group of widely admired<br />
visual artists whose highly collectable<br />
work is based principally upon direct<br />
observation of nature and the human<br />
figure. Its Annual Exhibition is a showcase<br />
for members and gives aspiring artists an<br />
opportunity to exhibit alongside some of<br />
the best figurative artists working today in<br />
painting, drawing and printmaking.<br />
Now firmly established as a fixture of<br />
the London Summer Season, New English<br />
Art Club is at the Mall Galleries from<br />
Friday 15 to Saturday 23 <strong>June</strong>.<br />
OLYMPIA TURNS JAPANESE THIS<br />
SUMMER<br />
Taking over London’s iconic Olympia<br />
exhibition venue from 13-15 July, Hyper<br />
Japan will transform the space into a<br />
unique celebration of music, food, drink,<br />
fashion, culture and gaming, drawing<br />
inspiration from both the traditional<br />
and future of Japan.<br />
Hyper Japan is the ultimate fusion<br />
of contemporary and traditional<br />
Japanese culture, cuisine and cool.<br />
Expect a sensory overload as the<br />
sounds, smells, sights and tastes of this<br />
intriguing and exciting culture transport<br />
you to another world.<br />
This year, guests can indulge in the<br />
Japanese favourite – Karaoke! Step into<br />
the booth and belt out your best<br />
performance either in Japanese or<br />
English. In true Japanese style, this is<br />
all about giving it some energy, no vocal<br />
ability required. Or, take part in the<br />
Hyper Bon-Odori Challenge 3000 – a<br />
marching inspired folk dance event that<br />
everyone will be invited to join after the<br />
Friday session at 20.00.<br />
Hyper Japan is a unique event<br />
offering fun, food and culture for the<br />
whole family.<br />
New English Art Club: Lemons on a Raised Dish by Sarah Spencer.<br />
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Mark Wilde.<br />
THE CAMDEN CHOIR PERFORM<br />
HANDEL’S SAUL<br />
After their highly successfully<br />
appearance with Athalia at St John’s<br />
Smith Square in 2014, the Camden<br />
Choir will pay a return visit on Saturday<br />
23 <strong>June</strong> to perform another Handel<br />
masterpiece, Saul. With a libretto by<br />
Charles Jennens (1700–73), who was to<br />
collaborate with Handel on Messiah<br />
three years later, Saul is a dramatisation<br />
of the King’s conflict with the Philistines,<br />
his relationship with his son Jonathan<br />
and his jealousy of Jonathan’s friendship<br />
with the man who eventually succeeded<br />
him, David. The action culminates in a<br />
great battle between the Israelites and<br />
the Philistines in which both Saul and<br />
Jonathan are killed, marked by the<br />
famous Dead March.<br />
Saul was composed in 1738 and given<br />
its first performance at the King’s Theatre<br />
on 16th January the following year, when<br />
Handel was 52. It was a great success and<br />
was performed in subsequent seasons.<br />
Handel conceived it on a grand scale,<br />
using some unusual instruments for the<br />
time, such as a carillon, three trombones<br />
and some large kettle drums (which he<br />
borrowed from the Tower of London for<br />
the première!).<br />
The distinguished soloists at this<br />
performance will be Lesley Jane Rogers<br />
(soprano), Margaret McDonald (mezzo<br />
soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor), David<br />
Stout (baritone) and James Platt (bass)<br />
accompanied by Nicholas Houghton<br />
(continuo) and the Pro Arte Orchestra,<br />
and conducted by the Camden Choir’s<br />
Musical Director Julian Williamson.<br />
Tickets may be obtained by telephone<br />
on 020 7222 1061.<br />
LONDON PHILHARMONIC<br />
FUNHARMONICS FAMILY CONCERT<br />
The full force of the London<br />
Philharmonic Orchestra brings Igor<br />
Stravinsky’s magical ballet score<br />
Petrushka to life in its latest<br />
FUNharmonics family concert at the Royal<br />
Festival Hall on Sunday 10 <strong>June</strong>.<br />
The LPO – widely regarded as one of<br />
the world’s finest orchestras working on<br />
the international stage – has brought the<br />
wonder of orchestral music to children for<br />
many years through its FUNharmonics<br />
concerts. These much-loved, hour long<br />
concerts offer an engaging and fun<br />
introduction to classical music for<br />
children aged 6 and over.<br />
Left to right: St Giles Cripplegate and St Mary le Bow.<br />
SUMMER MUSIC IN CITY<br />
CHURCHES<br />
Summer Music in City Churches is a<br />
brand new festival presenting beautiful<br />
music to inspire, divert and engage, in<br />
ancient and architecturally stunning<br />
churches in London's Square Mile.<br />
Standing cheek by jowl with City offices,<br />
these churches are glorious settings in<br />
which to listen and reflect: oases of<br />
history, beauty and peace amidst the<br />
24-7 hurly-burly of City life, each with<br />
its own story of survival to tell in the<br />
face of world war, fire and man’s<br />
inhumanity to man over the centuries.<br />
The theme for this year’s inaugural<br />
festival, marking 100 years since 1918,<br />
will be ‘Swords and Ploughshares’:<br />
music recalling a time of peace before<br />
the Great War, the horror of conflict, and<br />
its legacy. Concerts will feature nostalgic<br />
reminiscence of a pastoral age<br />
irrevocably devastated by the outbreak of<br />
war, evocative settings of poetry by WWI<br />
poets, poignant music written in tribute<br />
to those who fell in the Great War, and<br />
stirring works of consolation and hope.<br />
Further details from the website at<br />
www.SummerMusicCityChurches.com<br />
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Charles Johnston.<br />
MOONLIGHT SYMPHONY<br />
ORCHESTRA RETURNS TO LONDON<br />
The Moonlight Symphony Orchestra<br />
recently returned from their European<br />
tour in Vienna with performances made<br />
in two of the world’s most famous<br />
venues – the Wiener Konzerthaus and<br />
the Muth Theather (the home of the<br />
Vienna Boys Choir). Now back in<br />
London, they will perform at St John’s<br />
Smith Square on 22 <strong>June</strong> at 19.30.<br />
W.A Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A<br />
K622 was one of the final completed<br />
works written by Mozart two months<br />
before he died. The concerto is notable<br />
for its delicate interplay between soloist<br />
and Orchestra. The soloist for this<br />
performance is Jorge Ripoll, a Spanish<br />
Clarinettist who is currently completing<br />
his Master’s degree at the world’s<br />
second-best Music conservatoire, the<br />
Royal College of Music.<br />
G Verdi La Traviata, the fallen woman,<br />
is an opera of three acts. The main artist<br />
in this performance is Violeta and this<br />
character speaks to our universal nature.<br />
Among the soloists is British baritone,<br />
Charles Johnston, who leads the two<br />
young soloists for this concert. With a<br />
repertoire ranging from Wagner to<br />
Britten, his career highlights include<br />
performances for English National<br />
Opera, Gorgio Germont & Marquis<br />
d’Obigny La Traviata, Dr Kolenaty The<br />
Makropulos Case, Nikitich Boris<br />
Godunov, The Cardinal The Duchess of<br />
Malfi, 1st SS Officer The Passenger, and<br />
the Guide Death in Venice (the latter<br />
bringing débuts at La Scala, Milan; La<br />
Monnaie; De Nederlandse Opera; and<br />
the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam).<br />
During this performance, the<br />
audience will have the opportunity to<br />
travel back to the 19th century and<br />
experience an intimate romantic<br />
atmosphere in one of the best-loved and<br />
most frequently performed opera plays.<br />
The Moonlight Symphony Orchestra<br />
was founded in December 2015 by<br />
Artistic Director Isolda Da Costa Soares.<br />
The orchestra was created to support<br />
and mentor young musicians and to<br />
help them develop their skills to a<br />
professional level.<br />
The Orchestra is comprised of many<br />
musicians who have graduated from<br />
some of Europe’s leading conservatories<br />
including the Royal College of Music,<br />
Royal Academy of Music, Guildhall<br />
School of Music & Drama in the UK, the<br />
Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the<br />
Music and Arts University of the City of<br />
Vienna and The University of Music and<br />
Performing Arts Vienna.<br />
Further details are available from<br />
www.moonlightsymphonyorchestra.com<br />
The cast of Allelujah! with Alan Bennett and Arlene Phillips.<br />
WORLD PREMIERE OF ALAN<br />
BENNETT’S ALLELUJAH!<br />
Rehearsals began this week for the<br />
world premiere of Nicholas Hytner’s<br />
production of Alan Bennett’s Allelujah!<br />
at the Bridge Theatre. Designed by Bob<br />
Crowley with choreography Arlene<br />
Phillips, lighting by Natasha Chivers and<br />
music by George Fenton, Allelujah! runs<br />
from 11 July to 28 September, with<br />
opening night on 18 July.<br />
The Beth, an old fashioned cradle-tograve<br />
hospital serving a town on the<br />
edge of the Pennines, is threatened with<br />
closure as part of an NHS efficiency<br />
drive. Meanwhile, a documentary crew<br />
eager to capture its fight for survival<br />
follows the daily struggle to find beds on<br />
the Dusty Springfield Geriatric Ward,<br />
and the triumphs of the old people’s<br />
choir (newest member: the Pudsey<br />
Nightingale).<br />
Allelujah! will be the tenth<br />
collaboration between Bennett and<br />
Hytner. They first worked together on<br />
Bennett’s adaptation of The Wind in the<br />
Willows for the National Theatre in<br />
1990. Then followed The Madness of<br />
King George III, The Lady in the Van and<br />
The History Boys, all of which were also<br />
seen on film, The Habit of Art, People<br />
and the double bill Untold Stories.<br />
Box Office telephone 0843 208 1846.<br />
Photo: Luke Varley.<br />
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Roddy Williams.<br />
RAF CENTENARY CONCERT<br />
AT THE BARBICAN CENTRE<br />
A concert to celebrate the centenary<br />
of the RAF is to be given on Monday<br />
11 <strong>June</strong> at London’s Barbican centre by<br />
London Concert Choir. They will be<br />
joined by Canticum chamber choir, a<br />
specially recruited children’s choir,<br />
Counterpoint strings and the Central<br />
Band of the Royal Air Force, under the<br />
direction of Mark Forkgen and Wing<br />
Commander Piers Morrell, for what<br />
promises to be a highly memorable<br />
evening.<br />
After an opening fanfare, the concert<br />
begins with two magnificent Coronation<br />
anthems, Parry’s I was glad and Walton’s<br />
Te Deum, accompanied by the RAF Band<br />
and organ, and Britten’s engaging<br />
Simple Symphony for strings. Next<br />
comes a selection of stirring music from<br />
the Band, including the March from<br />
Things to Come by Arthur Bliss, Ladies<br />
in Lavender by Nigel Hess and Into the<br />
Skies by Phillip Lawrence, which has<br />
been specially written for the centenary.<br />
These are followed by the world<br />
premiere of another special commission:<br />
Per Ardua ad Astra - Through Adversity<br />
to the Stars (the RAF motto), a major<br />
choral work by the well-known British<br />
baritone and composer Roderick<br />
Williams. The new work sets a wide<br />
range of aviation poetry reflecting<br />
significant episodes in the history of the<br />
RAF from its foundation in April 1918 to<br />
the present. The movements will be<br />
linked by poems read by the BBC<br />
Newsreader Sophie Raworth and the<br />
actor Martin Shaw, and the Hall will<br />
resonate to the sounds of iconic aircraft<br />
from the history of the Service. Words<br />
and music will movingly combine to<br />
depict the joy and exhilaration of flying<br />
and the courage of the aircrews.<br />
Proceeds from the concert will be<br />
donated to the RAF100 Appeal – a joint<br />
venture between the Royal Air Force and<br />
four major RAF charities which are<br />
helping to support serving personnel<br />
and veterans as well as enhancing<br />
training facilities for young people.<br />
The nearest underground station is<br />
Barbican. Tickets at £12 to £35 are<br />
available from 020 7638 8891 or online<br />
at www.barbican.org.uk.<br />
THE RIDDLERS IN CONCERT AT<br />
GRESHAM CENTRE<br />
The Riddlers Avon Old Farms School,<br />
from Connecticut, USA, will give a<br />
lunchtime concert on Friday 8 <strong>June</strong><br />
(12.15) at the Gresham Centre, St Anne<br />
and St Agnes Church, under the<br />
direction of Sarah Paquet. The event is<br />
open to the public and free of charge.<br />
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AFTERMATH: ART IN THE WAKE OF<br />
WORLD WAR ONE<br />
Marking 100 years since the end of<br />
the First World War, the new exhibition<br />
at Tate Britain explores the immediate<br />
impact of the conflict on British, German<br />
and French art. As the first exhibition to<br />
examine the culture of memorials<br />
alongside new developments in post-war<br />
art it will consider how artists responded<br />
to the physical and psychological scars<br />
left on Europe. Aftermath brings together<br />
over 150 works from 1916 to 1932 by<br />
artists including George Grosz, Fernand<br />
Léger and C.R.W. Nevinson. During this<br />
tumultuous period, artists began to<br />
explore new ways of making art in their<br />
responses to the experience of war, the<br />
culture of remembrance, and the<br />
rebuilding of cities and societies.<br />
The First World War began to be<br />
constructed as memory almost as soon as<br />
it had begun. During the war artists<br />
created works which reflected on its longterm<br />
impact. Battlefield landscapes and<br />
images of soldiers’s graves such as<br />
William Orpen’s A Grave in a Trench 1917<br />
and Paul Jouve’s Tombe d’un soldat serbe<br />
a Kenali 1917 evoked silence and absence<br />
in the aftermath of battle.<br />
After the armistice, official public<br />
memorials provided a focus for<br />
mourning and remembrance. Artists<br />
including Käthe Kollwitz, André Mare<br />
and Charles Sargeant Jagger produced<br />
sculptural memorials to commemorate<br />
those who lost their lives in the conflict.<br />
Soldiers’ wounds were an alternative<br />
memorial, visible in flesh rather than<br />
stone, and disabled veterans were a<br />
constant reminder of the terrible cost of<br />
war. Works such as George Grosz’s Grey<br />
Day 1921 and Otto Dix’s Prostitute and<br />
Disabled War Veteran 1923 used imagery<br />
of disabled veterans to demonstrate the<br />
inequalities in German society. In France,<br />
veterans were an important part of the<br />
visual culture of memorial ceremonies. In<br />
Britain, images of wounded soldiers<br />
such as Henry Tonks’s medical pastel<br />
portraits were usually seen in the context<br />
of therapy and healing.<br />
Christopher Richard Wynne Nevinson (1889 – 1946) Paths of Glory, 1917<br />
© IWM<br />
William Orpen (1878–1931).<br />
To the Unknown British Soldier in<br />
France, 1921-8.<br />
This turbulent period also saw the<br />
birth of dada and surrealism in the work<br />
of Hannah Höch, Max Ernst, André<br />
Masson and Edward Burra among<br />
others. Artists used new visual forms to<br />
process experiences and memories of<br />
conflict. Dada photomontages by<br />
Hannah Höch reused war imagery while<br />
fragmented bodies and prosthetic limbs<br />
featured in works like Grosz and<br />
Heartfield’s The Petit-Bourgeois<br />
Philistine Heartfield Gone Wild. Electro-<br />
Mechanical Tatlin Sculpture 1920.<br />
As well as the physical and<br />
psychological scars left on Europe, the<br />
exhibition also shows how post-war<br />
society began to rebuild itself, inspiring<br />
artists such as Georges Braque,<br />
Christian Schad and Winifred Knights to<br />
return to classicism and tradition while<br />
others such as Fernand Léger, Paul<br />
Citroen and C.R.W. Nevinson turned<br />
their minds to visions of a technological<br />
future in the modern city.<br />
Further details at tate.org.uk<br />
© IWM.<br />
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THE ULTIMATE BRUNCH ON<br />
BATEAUX LONDON<br />
One of London’s top visitor attractions<br />
is serving the ultimate brunch for those<br />
looking to spend lazy summer mornings<br />
on the river. Every Saturday and Sunday<br />
in <strong>June</strong>, July and August, Bateaux<br />
London will take guests on a ninetyminute<br />
cruise up the River Thames.<br />
And, along with the chance to unwind<br />
against a backdrop of iconic landmarks<br />
such as the Houses of Parliament, the<br />
London Eye, St. Paul’s Cathedral and the<br />
Tower of London, guests will enjoy a<br />
breakfast brunch buffet created by the<br />
on-board team of chefs. Each cruise will<br />
be accompanied by a live DJ and guests<br />
can opt to add enhancements, such as a<br />
bottomless supply of prosecco.<br />
‘There is something incredibly<br />
relaxing about being on the river on a<br />
summer morning,’ said Bateaux London<br />
sales manager, Gareth Brown.<br />
‘Especially if your trip includes great<br />
food and glass or two of prosecco.<br />
We’re delighted to be adding brunch to<br />
our schedule of lunch, dinner and<br />
afternoon tea cruises – and look forward<br />
to welcoming visitors aboard.’<br />
Cruises will all take place on Bateaux<br />
London’s Harmony vessel, which has the<br />
largest roof deck on the Thames, with<br />
embarkation at 10.00 at Embankment<br />
Pier near Charing Cross.<br />
For further information about Bateaux<br />
London sailings, call 020 7695 1809 or<br />
visit www.bateauxlondon.com<br />
REFUGEE WEEK AT SOUTHBANK<br />
CENTRE<br />
Next week, Southbank Centre has an<br />
event called Choose Love from Thursday<br />
14 <strong>June</strong> until Thursday 5 July in which<br />
the charity Help Refugees are presenting<br />
their ‘Choose Love’ slogan in the form<br />
of a bold and powerful mural by<br />
international street artist Lakwena.<br />
On 27 <strong>June</strong>, visitors are invited to<br />
listen to music celebrating refugees at a<br />
performance by London schoolchildren.<br />
This concert Harmonise is part of Music<br />
Action International’s national school<br />
programme, which seeks to inspire<br />
empathy between refugees and people of<br />
all backgrounds.<br />
INSTAGRAM POETRY EXHIBITION<br />
AT NATIONAL POETRY LIBRARY<br />
Southbank Centre’s National Poetry<br />
Library, housed on the fifth floor of the<br />
Royal Festival Hall and home to the<br />
world’s largest collection of modern<br />
poetry, is presenting the world's first<br />
Instagram poetry exhibition. The<br />
exhibition showcases the best of over<br />
1,000 Instapoetry submissions to the<br />
National Poetry Library since the library<br />
put a call out for Instagram poems<br />
earlier this year. The submissions range<br />
from work featuring striking typographic<br />
design to social comments and<br />
emotional confessions, as well as a<br />
selection of short Instapoetry films,<br />
providing the perfect introduction to this<br />
emergent form of poetry.<br />
SURPRISE BABY AT LONDON ZOO<br />
When Tobi the tamandua moved to<br />
ZSL London Zoo last October as a<br />
companion for female Ria, keepers<br />
hoped to someday hear the pitter patter<br />
of tiny tamandua toes. So they were<br />
overjoyed when just five months later<br />
they spotted a tiny baby clinging to Ria’s<br />
back, making newcomer Tobi a very fast<br />
mover – when keepers did the maths<br />
they discovered that Ria must have fallen<br />
pregnant the same week they met.<br />
Ria has kept the baby – nick-named<br />
‘Poco’ by keepers – close to her since the<br />
Easter Monday birth, tucking the<br />
youngster away in a hollow log. But the<br />
two-month-old has now started to<br />
tentatively venture away from mum to<br />
explore its Rainforest Life home, which<br />
the tamanduas share with two-toed sloths<br />
Marilyn, Leander and baby Lento,<br />
Emperor tamarins, red titi monkeys and<br />
fruit bats.<br />
The nocturnal mammals (Tamandua<br />
tetradactyla), part of the anteater family<br />
and native to South America, are<br />
impressive climbers, holding on to mum<br />
will enable the infant to build up the<br />
valuable muscles needed to climb easily<br />
through the tree-top branches of London’s<br />
only living rainforest.<br />
Juvenile tamanduas spend the first<br />
three months clinging to their mothers’<br />
backs, sliding down to feed before pulling<br />
themselves back up to nestle into mum’s<br />
fur. They have fantastic camouflage as<br />
their distinguishable matching patterns<br />
align to create one continuous stripe,<br />
allowing the young pup to avoid the eyes<br />
of predators.<br />
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Gareth Edwards, 'Cedars of Lebanon', oil on canvas, 100 x 110 cm, 2018<br />
GARETH EDWARDS ‘SHIFTING<br />
BRILLIANCES’<br />
Gareth Edwards’ second solo exhibition<br />
with Jill George Gallery continues until<br />
16 <strong>June</strong> with a series of new paintings<br />
inspired by the landscape and seascape.<br />
The title phrase, ‘Shifting Brilliances’,<br />
is taken from a mid-career poem by<br />
Seamus Heaney’s ‘Seeing Things<br />
Collection’. This book of poems is the<br />
inspiration for his personal research into<br />
contemporary landscape painting for the<br />
last twenty years, as well as being<br />
connected to the birth of his first<br />
daughter. ‘Shifting Brilliances’ in the<br />
poem, refers to flickering images of a<br />
half remembered time and place.<br />
This new collection of paintings are a<br />
continuation of a pre-occupation in<br />
contemporary landscape painting and<br />
increasingly, images that use half<br />
remembered, half imagined places<br />
– far off places only dreamt of, but never<br />
visited, current places known, but<br />
observed through half opened eyes, but<br />
all rendered in a slightly higher tones<br />
and attention to detail than in Edwards’<br />
previous work.<br />
The Shifting Brilliances in these<br />
paintings conflate with the shifting<br />
sparkling surfaces painted across the<br />
fractured surfaces, occasionally<br />
coalescing in, to focus on the detail of a<br />
tree, as seen in ‘Cedars of Lebanon’ then<br />
out of focus again in the rendering of<br />
atmospheric weather conditions. These<br />
are both poetic narratives and<br />
atmospheric abstracts of the artists’<br />
vision of the natural world.<br />
Gareth Edwards lives and works in<br />
St Ives in Cornwall. He exhibits regularly<br />
with Jill George Gallery in London and<br />
in Art Fairs both internationally and<br />
within UK. His work is included in many<br />
public and Private collections.<br />
Jill George Gallery represents<br />
paintings, drawings, watercolours,<br />
monoprints and limited edition prints by<br />
British Contemporary artists from the<br />
established artist to the recent graduate.<br />
There is an exhibition every five weeks<br />
and a selection of originals and prints is<br />
always available. To continue the Gallery's<br />
interest in young artists, there is an<br />
exhibition every eighteen months of recent<br />
graduates. It also donates a prize to the<br />
Royal College of Art printmaking<br />
department and offers an exhibition<br />
alternate years to six graduates.<br />
The exhibition, ‘Shifting Brilliances’,<br />
is at 30 Tottenham Street, off Charlotte<br />
Street, W1T 4RJ. The nearest<br />
underground station is Tottenham Court<br />
Road. www.jillgeorgegallery.co.uk<br />
Witness, oil on canvas, 55 x 57 cm, 2018 Gareth Edwards<br />
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ALICE BY MAX SIR AT THE<br />
EMBASSY OF CHILE<br />
An exhibition of paintings by Chilean<br />
artist Max Sir, will be on view at the<br />
Embassy of Chile in the United Kingdom<br />
from 6 July until 31 July. Taking<br />
elements from the novel Alice’s adventures<br />
in Wonderland and its main character,<br />
Alice, this new series of paintings has<br />
been developed in various countries in<br />
Europe and selections of its body of 144<br />
artworks have been exhibited in Berlin,<br />
Prague, Paris, Athens, and most recently<br />
were part of the Salon International d’Art<br />
Contemporain at Carrousel du Louvre<br />
(Paris, May 2018). A selection of<br />
artworks from this collection will be<br />
exhibited in the presence of the artist.<br />
‘A particular aspect of this new body<br />
of work is that every element in its<br />
pictorial language was previously<br />
conceived, designed, carried into the<br />
stage and brought into motion for a<br />
theatrical piece. The texture, the colours,<br />
the composition and every element in<br />
these paintings and sketches speak of<br />
decisions I previously made as a<br />
director/designer for the stage. These<br />
paintings are a living dialogue between<br />
the language of theatre and the language<br />
of painting, which interacts with what<br />
the viewers understand by reality.’<br />
– Max Sir.<br />
Parallax Art Fair will be open to<br />
public on 21 & 22 July at Kensington<br />
Town Hall.<br />
DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL AT BANG<br />
BANG ORIENTAL<br />
Running until Tuesday 19 <strong>June</strong>,<br />
London’s largest Asian foodhall Bang<br />
Bang Oriental will be hosting a two week<br />
Dragon Boat Festival.<br />
The event will feature an exhibition<br />
where guests can view the colourful<br />
dragon boat on display at the foodhall.<br />
Guests will also be able to visit the mini<br />
exhibition to learn about the Dragon<br />
Boat Festival and the history behind it.<br />
Dragon Boat Racing has ancient<br />
Chinese origins and its history has been<br />
traced back for more than 2000 years.<br />
Racing was held to avert misfortune and<br />
encourage the rains needed for<br />
prosperity – as the dragon of Asia is a<br />
symbol of water.<br />
The eco-friendly Bang Bang Oriental<br />
brings a pan-Asian culinary experience<br />
and cultural entertainment concept to the<br />
capital encompassing a food court,<br />
restaurant, and community space – all<br />
under one roof. North London’s hottest<br />
new destination celebrates Asia’s vibrant<br />
culture with 27 individual kiosks offering<br />
an eclectic mix of Chinese, Korean,<br />
Japanese, Indian, Vietnamese,<br />
Taiwanese, Malaysian Thai, Hong Kong,<br />
and Filipino cuisine, as well as a bar for<br />
refreshments and alcoholic beverages.<br />
This sophisticated and affordable food<br />
court brings the energy and authentic<br />
vibe of an Asian Street Food Market to<br />
London.<br />
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Adetomiwa Edun, Colin Morgan and Seamus O'Hara in Translations.<br />
Photo: Catherine Ashmore<br />
TRANSLATIONS<br />
Olivier Theatre<br />
Brian Friel’s multi award-winning play Translations is<br />
considered by many to be his masterpiece. First performed in<br />
Derry in 1980, then staged in London the following year at<br />
the Hampstead theatre before its run at the Lyttelton, it now<br />
returns to the Olivier in an impeccable production, directed by<br />
Ian Rickson, that unequivocally confirms its status as one of<br />
the great English-speaking plays of the last forty years.<br />
It is with a certain irony that I say<br />
English-speaking, for although<br />
audiences are hearing it in English, the<br />
majority of the characters are actually<br />
meant to be communicating in Irish.<br />
Initially this is a tad confusing especially<br />
when a contingent of English sappers<br />
arrive who do not understand any Irish<br />
and, of course, converse solely in<br />
English. In other words, foreigners and<br />
locals speak the same tongue, but<br />
without understanding one another. The<br />
play, however, is so skilfully written that<br />
you soon surrender to what in lesser<br />
hands could have been a very awkward<br />
contrivance.<br />
The setting is the small, rural farming<br />
village of Baile Beag (or Ballybeg as it<br />
came to be known) in Donegal, and the<br />
time is 1833. Though the local folk are<br />
isolated from the rest of the world,<br />
oblivious to everything other than their<br />
own hardships and deprivations, several<br />
of them regularly attend a hedge school<br />
at which, surprisingly, Latin and Greek<br />
are taught while English is ignored.<br />
The drink-prone schoolmaster<br />
overseeing these classes is a grizzled<br />
Lear-like father-figure called Hugh<br />
(Ciaran Hinds), whose love of classical<br />
Greece has been passed on to his<br />
devotee Jimmy Jack (Dermot Crowley)<br />
an unlikely Homer-obsessed tramp-like<br />
eccentric who informs us that his wife to<br />
be is Pallas Athene and that they plan to<br />
marry by Christmas. Myth rather than<br />
reality is what keeps him going.<br />
Other regular presences are Manus<br />
(Seamus O’Hara) Hugh’s crippled older<br />
son who teaches at the school, Sarah<br />
(Michelle Fox), an almost mute waif<br />
of a girl, and Maire (Judith Roddy) a<br />
determined young woman who longs to<br />
free herself from the shackles of isolated<br />
conformity, and who, like so many Irish<br />
of the period, wants to emigrate to<br />
America.<br />
The play’s narrative is propelled into<br />
action with the arrival of Hugh’s younger<br />
son Owen (Colin Morgan). For the last<br />
six years he has been in Dublin<br />
improving his lot, is fluent in English,<br />
and with a very different ideology from<br />
his brother, returns to Baile Begg as a<br />
translator to Captain Lancey (Rufus<br />
Wright) a cartographer from England,<br />
together with an appealingly free-spirited<br />
Lieutenant Yolland (Adetomiwa Edun).<br />
Their assignment is to produce an<br />
ordnance survey map of the area and to<br />
anglicise all name places.<br />
Romance briefly blossoms between<br />
Yolland who is smitten both by the<br />
beauty of Donegal and by the charms of<br />
Maire. He can’t speak Irish, she can’t<br />
speak English. Yet in the play’s justly<br />
celebrated cross-cultural tryst the couple<br />
convey their passion for each other<br />
without understanding a word either is<br />
saying.<br />
Though the poetry in the writing here<br />
is exceptional, the consequences,<br />
dramatically, are disastrous: the vocally<br />
challenged Sarah sees Yolland and Maire<br />
kissing and, ironically, though practically<br />
dumb, finds a way of imparting this to<br />
Manus who was hoping to marry Maire<br />
himself after being offered a better paid<br />
teaching job at a National School.<br />
The damage is irreparable. Yolland<br />
goes mysteriously missing and, if he<br />
isn’t found in 48 hours, his superior<br />
commander threatens the community<br />
with the wholesale slaughter of their<br />
livestock, eviction and the levelling of<br />
their homes.<br />
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Though Friel has disingenuously<br />
claimed that Translations was never meant<br />
to be a political play, there is no denying it<br />
is a microcosm of the problems that have<br />
beset Ireland right up to the present time.<br />
But more fundamentally, it is a play about<br />
the power and importance of language –<br />
both as a bond and as a barrier – and is<br />
rich in symbolism. Manus’s disability is<br />
endemic of the community’s inability to<br />
progress; Yolland and Maire’s lack of<br />
verbal communication speaks volumes<br />
about the the nature of communication,<br />
while the name-changing in the mapmaking<br />
process equates to the rape and<br />
surrendering of Irish culture, the effects<br />
of which still bear scars.<br />
Friel posits many on-going questions<br />
about Ireland and its past but offers no<br />
easy catchall answers. Indeed, plot-wise<br />
the play’s ending is pretty indeterminate<br />
and ambiguous in its message. But there<br />
is no denying the resonance of his<br />
commitment to the on-going conundrum<br />
of Ireland vs England or the energy of<br />
the writing which is as compulsive as is<br />
Rickson’s exemplary direction<br />
My initial fear with this revival was that<br />
the Olivier was, perhaps, too vast a space<br />
to distil the essence of an intimate tragedy<br />
about a small community’s lack of<br />
communication and failure to understand<br />
the world they inhabit. But Rae Smith’s<br />
design, comprising a stair-case at the<br />
extreme left of the stage almost as high as<br />
the auditorium itself, the farm buildingcum-hedge<br />
school and a marshy<br />
landscape with its atmospheric cloud<br />
formations, provides an appropriately epic<br />
scale to a contemporary classic.<br />
The cast is uniformly excellent with<br />
Colin Morgan as the official translator,<br />
Dermot Crowley’s classical scholar,<br />
Ciarian Hinds’s poteen-fuelled head<br />
school master, Adetomiwa Edun’s lovestruck<br />
Lieutenant, Judith Roddy as the<br />
object of his affection and Michelle Fox<br />
as hapless Sarah brlnging total<br />
conviction to every scene they’re in.<br />
A timely revival and a much needed<br />
return to form for the National Theatre.<br />
CLIVE HIRSCHHORN<br />
Photo: Matthew Murphy<br />
Michael Jibson (King George).<br />
NEW BOOKING PERIOD ANNOUNCED<br />
FOR HAMILTON<br />
A new booking period for the London<br />
production of Hamilton goes on sale this<br />
week with tickets now available to be<br />
purchased for performances to Saturday<br />
30 March 2019.<br />
Hamilton is the story of America’s<br />
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton,<br />
an immigrant from the West Indies who<br />
became George Washington’s right-hand<br />
man during the Revolutionary War and<br />
helped shape the very foundations of the<br />
America we know today. The score<br />
blends hip-hop, jazz, blues, rap, R&B<br />
and Broadway – the story of America<br />
then, as told by America now.<br />
Hamilton has book, music and lyrics<br />
by Lin-Manuel Miranda, is directed by<br />
Thomas Kail, with choreography by<br />
Andy Blankenbuehler and musical<br />
supervision and orchestrations by Alex<br />
Lacamoire and based on Ron Chernow’s<br />
biography of Alexander Hamilton.<br />
Full ticketing information can be<br />
found on the official website at<br />
hamiltonthemusical.co.uk which<br />
includes details of the Hamilton West<br />
End £10 daily Lottery. In addition,<br />
visitors are advised to check the official<br />
Hamilton channels for news of late<br />
release seats which may become<br />
available at short notice.<br />
CIRCOLOMBIA HEADLINES<br />
SOUTHBANK UNDERBELLY FESTIVAL<br />
Circus performers have brought guts,<br />
grace and gusto, direct from Bogota to<br />
London’s Southbank as Circolombia<br />
performs its headline run at the<br />
Underbelly Festival until 14 July.<br />
The highly acclaimed show packed<br />
full of explosive Latin energy from a<br />
fourteen strong cast of world class<br />
circus artists, captures the endless<br />
dynamic force of Colombian life through<br />
relentless performance and jaw dropping<br />
skill. Circolombia is no ordinary circus.<br />
Coupled with live original music and<br />
electrifying singers, Circolombia delivers<br />
world-class, gravity defying performances<br />
that will have audiences shaking their<br />
heads in disbelief and dancing in the<br />
aisles to the beat-heavy soundscape.<br />
The electrifying troupe bring their<br />
unique and visceral performance style<br />
inspired by Colombia’s diverse<br />
communities to every performance.<br />
Circolombia features the raw, fearless<br />
power of fourteen of the most talented<br />
performers across the country, capturing<br />
the pace of life and Colombian energy.<br />
Delivering spectacular performance<br />
coupled with mind-boggling acrobatic<br />
skill and a willingness to take terrifying<br />
risks on stage, Circolombia promises a<br />
show audiences never forget.<br />
Circolombia's Julia Sanchez Aja<br />
performs the Cloud Swing.<br />
(c) The Other Richard.<br />
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LYTTELTON THEATRE<br />
ABSOLUTE HELL<br />
Rodney Ackland’s provocative play was<br />
condemned as ‘a libel on the British people’<br />
when first performed in 1952. Now it emerges<br />
as an intoxicating plunge into post-war Soho.<br />
JULIE<br />
Fuelled by social division, Strindberg’s<br />
masterpiece remains shocking and fiercely<br />
relevant in this new version by Polly Stenham<br />
(That Face, Neon Demon)<br />
DORFMAN THEATRE<br />
AN OCTOROON<br />
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ extraordinary play<br />
comes to the National Theatre after a sold-out<br />
run at the Orange Tree Theatre.<br />
NATIONAL THEATRE<br />
South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000)<br />
Guildford School of Acting are to bring their unique production of Daisy Pulls it Off,<br />
full of quirky characters, splendid scrapes and fabulous friends, to the<br />
Charing Cross Theatre from 19-30 <strong>June</strong>.<br />
QUIZ<br />
A fictional imagination based on real events<br />
which took place in 2001 following an<br />
episode of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?<br />
NOEL COWARD THEATRE<br />
St. Martin’s Lane, WC2 (0844 482 5140)<br />
PLAYS<br />
MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON<br />
Three-time Academy Award nominee Laura<br />
Linney makes her London debut in an<br />
adaptation of Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth<br />
Strout’s best-selling novel.<br />
BRIDGE THEATRE<br />
One Tower Bridge, SE1 (0843 208 1846)<br />
THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY<br />
One enormous diamond, eight incompetent<br />
crooks and a snoozing security guard. What<br />
could possibly go right?<br />
CRITERION THEATRE<br />
Piccadilly Circus, (020 7492 0810)<br />
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG<br />
A Polytechnic amateur drama group are<br />
putting on a 1920s murder mystery and<br />
everything that can go wrong... does!<br />
DUCHESS THEATRE<br />
Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810)<br />
THE MODERATE SOPRANO<br />
John Christie's admiration for the works of<br />
Wagner leads him to embark on the<br />
construction of an opera house on his estate<br />
at Glyndebourne.<br />
DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE<br />
St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7492 1552)<br />
THE WOMAN IN BLACK<br />
An innocent outsider, a suspicious rural<br />
community, a gothic house and a misty marsh<br />
are the ingredients of this Victorian ghost story.<br />
FORTUNE THEATRE<br />
Russell Street, WC2 (0844 871 7626)<br />
IMPERIUM<br />
The Royal Shakespeare Company presents<br />
Mike Poulton’s stage adaption of Robert Harris's<br />
Cicero trilogy. Performed in two parts - Part<br />
One: Conspirator and Part Two: Dictator.<br />
GIELGUD THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0844 482 5130)<br />
CONSENT<br />
Nina Raine's powerful, painful and funny play<br />
sifts the evidence from every side and puts<br />
justice in the dock.<br />
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE<br />
Panton Street, SW1 (0844 871 7627)<br />
Royal National Theatre Plays in repertory<br />
OLIVIER THEATRE<br />
MACBETH<br />
Shakespeare’s most intense and terrifying<br />
tragedy is directed by Rufus Norris. Rory<br />
Kinnear and Anne-Marie Duff play Macbeth<br />
and Lady Macbeth.<br />
TRANSLATIONS<br />
Brian Friel’s modern classic is a powerful<br />
account of nationhood, which sees the<br />
turbulent relationship between England and<br />
Ireland play out in one quiet community.<br />
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED<br />
CHILD PARTS I & II<br />
Stage play based on the Harry Potter franchise<br />
written by Jack Thorne, based on an original<br />
story by J.K Rowling.<br />
PALACE THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4813)<br />
FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE<br />
Inspired by one of Britain's greatest ever<br />
comedy series, this 2 hour interactive<br />
production is set in a restaurant where you the<br />
audience are the diners.<br />
RADISSON BLU EDWARDIAN<br />
Bloomsbury Street, (020 7764 0523)<br />
PETER PAN<br />
Imagination takes flight in this darkly comic<br />
tale, yet in an ever changing world, without a<br />
mother's love, what place is there for a boy who<br />
wouldn't grow up? Until 15 <strong>June</strong>.<br />
REGENT’S PARK OPEN AIR THEATRE<br />
Inner Circle, NW1 (0844 826 4242)<br />
THE MOUSETRAP<br />
Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest<br />
running play of its kind in the history of<br />
British theatre.<br />
ST MARTIN’S THEATRE<br />
West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515)<br />
TARTUFFE<br />
Christopher Hampton's modern updated, and<br />
dual-language, production of Moliere's comedy.<br />
THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET<br />
Haymarket SW1 (020 7930 8800)<br />
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AN IDEAL HUSBAND<br />
A major revival of Oscar Wilde's classic<br />
starring Edward Fox, Freddie Fox and Frances<br />
Barber. A stylish critique of politicians and<br />
social morality.<br />
VAUDEVILLE THEATRE<br />
Strand, WC2 (020 7400 1257)<br />
RED<br />
John Logan's play is a moving account of Mark<br />
Rothko, one of the greatest artists of the 20th<br />
century whose struggle to accept his growing<br />
riches and praise became his undoing.<br />
WYNDHAM’S THEATRE<br />
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 482 5120)<br />
MUSICALS<br />
KINKY BOOTS<br />
Inspired by a true story and based on the<br />
Miramax film, the show tells the story of<br />
Charlie Price who has reluctantly inherited his<br />
father's Northampton shoe factory.<br />
ADELPHI THEATRE<br />
Strand, WC2 (020 3725 7060)<br />
WICKED<br />
Hit Broadway story of how a clever,<br />
misunderstood girl with emerald green skin<br />
and a girl who is beautiful and popular turn<br />
into the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda<br />
the Good Witch in the Land of Oz.<br />
APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE<br />
Wilton Road, SW1 (0844 826 8000)<br />
CHESS<br />
Major revival of the Tim Rice, Benny Andersson<br />
and Björn Ulvaeus musical starring Michael<br />
Ball, Alexandra Burke and Murray Head.<br />
LONDON COLISEUM<br />
St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7845 9300)<br />
THE LION KING<br />
Disney‘s phenomenally successful animated<br />
film is transformed into a spectacular stage<br />
musical, a superb evening of visual delight.<br />
LYCEUM THEATRE<br />
Wellington Street, WC2 (0844 871 3000)<br />
THRILLER – LIVE<br />
High octane show celebrating the career of the<br />
King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Over two<br />
hours of the non-stop hit songs that marked<br />
his legendary live performances.<br />
LYRIC THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0330 333 4812)<br />
SCHOOL OF ROCK<br />
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage musical<br />
with lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Julian<br />
Fellowes, adapted from the film.<br />
NEW LONDON THEATRE<br />
Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810)<br />
MAMMA MIA!<br />
Hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, set<br />
around the story of a mother and daughter on<br />
the eve of the daughter’s wedding.<br />
NOVELLO THEATRE<br />
Aldwych, WC2 (0844 482 5170)<br />
John McCrea (Jamie) in Everybody's<br />
Talking About Jamie at the Apollo<br />
Theatre.<br />
Photo: Johan Persson.<br />
LES MISERABLES<br />
A spectacularly staged version of Victor Hugo’s<br />
epic novel about an escaped convict’s<br />
search for redemption in Revolutionary France.<br />
QUEEN’S THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0844 482 5160)<br />
21<br />
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE<br />
New musical starring John McCrea transfers<br />
to the West End following a sold-out run at<br />
Sheffield's Crucible Theatre.<br />
APOLLO THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (020 7851 2711)<br />
MA<strong>TIL</strong>DA<br />
Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare<br />
Company production of Roald Dahl’s book,<br />
directed by Matthew Warchus.<br />
CAMBRIDGE THEATRE<br />
Earlham Street, WC2 (0844 800 1110)<br />
BAT OUT OF HELL<br />
Following an acclaimed extended season last<br />
summer, Jay Scheib's stage musical, written<br />
by Jim Steinman and featuring Meat Loaf's<br />
greatest hits, returns to the West End.<br />
DOMINION THEATRE<br />
Tottenham Court Road, W1 (0845 200 7982)<br />
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA<br />
Long running epic romance by Andrew Lloyd<br />
Webber, set behind the scenes of a Paris<br />
opera house where a deformed phantom<br />
stalks his prey.<br />
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE<br />
Haymarket, SW1 (0844 412 2707)<br />
CHICAGO<br />
The dazzling multi-award-winning tale of<br />
nightclub singer Roxie Hart, her cell-block<br />
rival Velma Kelly and the smooth-talking<br />
lawyer Billy Flynn. Starring Cuba Gooding Jr.<br />
PHOENIX THEATRE<br />
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 871 7627)<br />
STRICTLY BALLROOM<br />
New stage musical based on Baz Luhrmann's<br />
1992 film The inspiring story of Scott<br />
Hastings, championship ballroom dancer who<br />
defies the rules and follows his heart.<br />
PICCADILLY THEATRE<br />
Denman Street, W1 (0844 871 7630)<br />
ALADDIN<br />
The classic hit film has been brought to thrilling<br />
life on stage by Disney, featuring all the songs<br />
from the Academy Award winning score.<br />
PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE<br />
Old Compton Street, W1 (0844 482 5151)<br />
BOOK OF MORMON<br />
Broadway musical takes shots at everything<br />
from organised religion to consumerism, state<br />
of the economy and the musical theatre genre.<br />
PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE<br />
Coventry Street, W1 (0844 482 5115)<br />
DREAMGIRLS<br />
Set in the USA during the late 1960s and<br />
early 1970s, it follows a young female singing<br />
trio as they become music superstars.<br />
SAVOY THEATRE<br />
Strand, WC2 (020 7492 0810)<br />
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL<br />
Featuring all the much loved classics from<br />
Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5,<br />
the show tells the story behind the hits.<br />
SHAFTESBURY THEATRE<br />
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (020 7492 0810)<br />
42ND STREET<br />
The song and dance, American dream fable,<br />
where a small town girl, Peggy Sawyer’s rise<br />
from chorus line to Broadway star.<br />
THEATRE ROYAL<br />
Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810)<br />
HAMILTON<br />
Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi award-winning<br />
musical, based on Ron Chernow's biography<br />
of one of the American Founding Fathers,<br />
Alexander Hamilton.<br />
VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE<br />
Victoria Street, SW1 (0844 248 5000)<br />
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SUMMER TERRACE SESSIONS AT<br />
ROKA CANARY WHARF<br />
Roka Canary Wharf is launching the<br />
Roka Summer Terrace Sessions, a series<br />
of parties to celebrate the warm summer<br />
months with Cîroc vodka.<br />
Starting from the 1 <strong>June</strong>, the Roka<br />
Canary Wharf terrace will be transformed<br />
on the last Friday of each month into a<br />
rooftop party, each one with a different<br />
theme and featuring performances by<br />
internationally renowned DJs. With the<br />
terrace ambiance ranging from the<br />
relaxing shores of the Balearic Islands,<br />
to the streets of Notting Hill Carnival,<br />
each evening will transport guests to the<br />
ultimate party scene.<br />
The first Roka Summer Terrace<br />
Session: ‘The Spirit of the Balearic’, will<br />
see DJ sets by 8track Music’s Massimo<br />
Lamagna, DJ Mass and Jim Wood,<br />
Jim8track. Regulars at Bestival and Ibiza<br />
Live Radio, the duo will bring a<br />
sunshine-filled balearic set of slo mo<br />
disco, original samples, luscious house<br />
and cosmic grooves.<br />
From 18.30 to 23.00, guests to the<br />
terrace will be able to start the weekend<br />
in style enjoying Cîroc vodka cocktails,<br />
specially created by the Roka bar team.<br />
These include Amnesia, Cîroc vodka<br />
infused with sansho berries, rosemary<br />
droplets bitters, tonic water and<br />
garnished with an orange zest, rosemary<br />
and thyme, and later in the series, the<br />
British Garden, a Cîroc vodka martini,<br />
with Sakura vermouth, Cocchi<br />
Americano, elderflower and strawberry<br />
cordial and garnished with a grapefruit<br />
zest. Tickets are £15.<br />
MICHEL ROUX JR. HOSTS DINNER<br />
AT ROUX AT PARLIAMENT SQUARE<br />
On 13 <strong>June</strong>, Michel Roux Jr. will host<br />
an exclusive wine dinner at Roux at<br />
Parliament Square. He will be joined by<br />
winemaker Jean-Dominique Videau from<br />
the renowned Château Branaire-Ducru in<br />
Bordeaux, whilst Head Chef Steve Groves<br />
will prepare an exquisite five-course menu<br />
with each dish perfectly matched to one of<br />
the Château Branaire-Ducru wines.<br />
Château Branaire-Ducru is situated in<br />
the Saint-Julien appellation of Bordeaux,<br />
and with vines planted over 60 hectares,<br />
all grapes are harvested by hand.<br />
Dedicated to producing wines that<br />
enhance the eating experience, Château<br />
Branaire-Ducru seeks purity, fruit and<br />
freshness in every vintage.<br />
For the dinner on 13 <strong>June</strong>, Steve<br />
Groves has taken inspiration both from<br />
seasonal British ingredients and dishes<br />
from the Bordeaux region of France.<br />
Guests will be welcomed with<br />
Champagne and a selection of light<br />
bites. To follow, dishes will include<br />
langoustine, pig’s trotter risotto and<br />
capers, served with Duluc de Branaire<br />
Ducru, 2010 and Roast turbot, hen of the<br />
woods and chervil alongside Branaire<br />
Ducru, 2012. The pièce de résistance<br />
will be a beautiful Roast beef sirloin,<br />
truffle pommes purée and hispi cabbage<br />
served with both Branaire Ducru 2003<br />
and Branaire Ducru 2000. Concluding<br />
the meal, Tunworth, toasted crumpet and<br />
gooseberry compote will pair elegantly<br />
with the cedar, plum and blackberry<br />
aromas of the Branaire Ducru 2010.<br />
Michel Roux Jr., Steve Groves and<br />
Jean-Dominique Videau will present<br />
each pairing, whilst the stylish and<br />
luxurious setting of Roux at Parliament<br />
Square will provide the perfect backdrop<br />
for an unforgettable evening.<br />
www.rouxatparliamentsquare.co.uk<br />
Château Branaire-Ducru.<br />
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