TIL Autumn Half Term

63 Years Informing International & UK Visitors
Est. 1956 Issue 3123
Autumn Half Term Edition, 2018
BOB DYLAN
MONDO SCRIPTO
LYRICS AND DRAWINGS EXHIBITION
144–146 New Bond Street, London
6th October – 30th November

Exhibition of Paintings of
the Nepal Himalaya
by James Hawkins
La Galleria, Royal Opera Arcade,
5b Pall Mall, London SW1Y 4UY
29 Oct3 Nov 2018
www.jameshawkinsart.co.uk
A SHORT WALK IN THE
SOLU KHUMBU

CONTENTS
Events 4
The Sun at the Science Museum
Future Engineers at LT Museum
Autumn Half Term at Postal Museum
Music 8
Stephen Sondheim’s Company
English Schools Orchestra
Britten’s War Requiem
Andrew Zolinsky Explores Debussy
Exhibitions 16
Bob Dylan at Halcyon Gallery
A Short Walk in the Solu Khumbu
Theatre 20
Bat Out of Hell Halloween Night
Aspects of Love
Chicago
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Welcome to London
For many, the London 2012 Olympic and
Paralympic Games is a shining memory of
this great city. As well as being a fantastic
festival of sport, it showcased areas of
London from Greenwich Park to Horse Guards
Parade – and of course turned the eyes of the
world on east London.
And although every part of London has
something unique to offer, east London –
and Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park – is once
again home to world class events this autumn and winter. Whether you want to
see top track stars ride the velodrome at Lee Valley VeloPark at the 6 Day
Series cycling event from 23-28 October or the UCI Track Cycling World Cup
in December; watch West Ham United FC play the best in the Premier League
at the London Stadium; or see the England Roses netball team take on Uganda
at the Copper Box Arena as part of the Vitality Netball International Series,
there’s always a great sporting spectacle on offer.
But Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park isn’t just about sports – it’s a free park to
play in and explore, a place to live and work, and a growing hub for innovation in
science and technology, arts and culture. November will see the Park host Shrouds
of the Somme – a large-scale artwork, featuring over 72,000 shrouded figures laid
out in rows, each representing a British Serviceman killed at the Battle of the
Somme who has no known grave. It will be a moving commemoration of 100
years since the end of the First World War, and is free and fully accessible.
Just a short walk from Stratford or Stratford International stations, the Park
is in Zone 2 and trains take less than 10 minutes from central London – so
why not combine exploring some of London’s traditional sights with seeing the
legacy of the London 2012 Games in action?
Dr Paul Brickell
London Legacy Development Corporation
Meet the
Household
Cavalry
A gem in the very
heart of ceremonial London
– your secret entrance to a famous building you’ve
always wanted to explore... with daily guard changes
window into the working regimental stables and reveal
Groups rates available. Ask us about our new
Open daily from 10am
Tel: 020 7930 3070
www.householdcavalrymuseum.co.uk
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Photos © Jody Kingzett, courtesy of the Science Museum Group
BIGGEST EVER EXHIBITION ABOUT
THE SUN AT THE SCIENCE MUSEUM
The Science Museum opened its
blockbuster exhibition, The Sun: Living
With Our Star this week. Spectacular
interactive experiences, unique artefacts,
and stunning imagery will reveal the
power, beauty, and dark side of the Sun
and shed fresh light on our evolving
relationship with our closest star. From
beautiful early Nordic Bronze Age
artefacts that reveal ancient beliefs of
how the Sun was transported across the
sky, to details of forthcoming NASA and
ESA solar missions, this exhibition will
chart humankind’s dependence upon and
everchanging understanding of our star.
Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science
Museum, said, ‘Since people first looked
up at the sky the Sun has been a source
of fascination, awe and inspiration and I
am sure that this exhibition will delight,
inspire and amaze visitors of all ages.
The Sun: Living With Our Star will take
people on a richly visual and actionpacked
adventure filled with remarkable
stories, people and artefacts.’
Animations, archive recordings and
film will bring to life a unique collection
of scientific instruments, technological
innovations and historic artefacts.
Highlights from the Science Museum
collection will include an astronomical
spectroscope made for Norman Lockyer
– who campaigned for the founding of
the Science Museum – who used it to
identify the element helium in the Sun’s
atmosphere in 1868. The exhibition will
coincide with the 150th anniversary of
Lockyer’s discovery, the first of an ‘extraterrestrial’
element, as helium had not
yet been found on Earth. Also on display
will be the original orrery, a mechanical
model of the Solar System, made for the
Earl of Orrery in 1712 to demonstrate the
motions of the Earth and Moon around
the Sun.
The exhibition will look at the
ongoing work to recreate the nuclear
reactions that power the Sun here on
Earth. Visitors will get up close to a
Tokamak ST25-HTS, a prototype nuclear
fusion reactor which successfully
created and sustained plasma for a
record-breaking 29 hours in 2015.
As the days become shorter this
autumn, exhibition visitors will literally
be able to bask in the Sun while sitting
in deck chairs under palm trees. This is
one of several unique interactive
experiences designed for visitors to
experience and explore the power of the
Sun, including a huge illuminated wall
display that allows them to see the Sun
rise in different seasons and different
locations around the world, and a digital
mirror that lets visitors virtually try on a
range of sunglasses from the Science
Museum collection.
Tickets are available on the website at
www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/see-anddo/the-sun-living-with-our-star
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NEW FUTURE ENGINEERS GALLERY
AT LONDON TRANSPORT MUSEUM
Visitors to the London Transport
Museum in Covent Garden can test their
skills, solve transport conundrums faced
by modern day engineers, and enjoy a
series of interactive exhibits in the new
Future Engineers Gallery, which opened
last week. The gallery inspires an
interest in STEM subjects and highlights
the creativity, social value and sheer
range of jobs available in engineering,
with one exhibit asking you to choose
the type of engineer you could become:
a dreamer, planner or fixer.
The Future Engineers and Digging
Deeper galleries, The Secret Life of a
Megaproject exhibition and family fun
activities are part of the Year of
Engineering 2018 which aims to raise the
profile of engineering amongst 7 to 16
year-olds and encourages young people
to consider a career in engineering.
The next generation of engineers can
experience ‘driving’ or operating a
modern train inspired by an Elizabeth
Line AVENTRA 345 train manufactured
by Bombardier Transportation in a
recreated train cab, use control buttons
and a computer system to drive through
tunnels, pull in to a platform and find
out how clever engineering can solve
challenging scenarios.
The Ticketing exhibit Go With The
Flow, a partnership with Cubic
Transportation Systems and Mastercard,
shows how ticketing has evolved from
the early days of manually operated
machines to today’s contactless
payments. Objects include a Bell Punch
ticket machine, in use on the network
from 1893 to 1958. A state-of-the-art
palm scanner by Cubic Transportation
Systems shows how, in a future world, a
human being might become their ticket.
The Shape Your City exhibit lets
visitors play an interactive table-top
game as they race against the clock to
create a healthy and well-connected
sustainable city. This urban planning
jigsaw invites visitors to ‘play’ with
different parts of the city such as
housing, stations, green spaces and
landmarks and to make them work
together to make a successful city.
The London Transport Museum is
filled with stunning exhibits and
explores the powerful link between
transport and the growth of modern
London, culture and society since 1800.
Historic vehicles, world-famous posters
and the very best objects from the
Museum’s extraordinary collection are
brought together to tell the story of
London’s development and the part
transport played in defining the unique
identity of the city.
GUY FAWKES’ NIGHT 2018
The Gunpowder Plot of 1605, in
earlier centuries often called the
Gunpowder Treason Plot, was a failed
assassination attempt against King
James I of England and VI of Scotland
by a group of provincial English
Catholics led by Robert Catesby. The
plan was to blow up the House of Lords
during the State Opening of England's
Parliament on 5 November 1605, as the
prelude to a popular revolt during which
James's nine-year-old daughter,
Princess Elizabeth, was to be installed
as the Catholic head of state. Today, the
foiled plot is commemorated with
firework displays all over London on and
around 5 November.
Guy Fawkes’ Night is traditionally
followed by the Lord Mayor’s Show, this
year’s procession is on Saturday 10
November, and the annual Remembrance
Day service which will be held on
Sunday 11 November at the Cenotaph in
Whitehall to honour the servicemen and
women who sacrificed their lives for
their country. The service has changed
little since it was first introduced in 1921
– hymns are sung, prayers are said and
a two minute silence is observed on the
stroke of 11 o’clock, the World War One
moment of ceasefire. Wreaths are then
laid by the Royal Family, leaders of the
Armed Forces and politicians. The
ceremony concludes with a march past
of war veterans, an enduring gesture of
respect for their fallen comrades.
Visitors will line the streets for the
service in Whitehall or watch the screens
in Trafalgar Square.
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AUTUMN HALF TERM AT THE
POSTAL MUSEUM
The Postal Museum reveals five
centuries of British social and
communications history as seen through
the eyes of its iconic postal service.
Alongside permanent exhibition galleries
and a temporary exhibition space, Mail
Rail, London’s secret Post Office
Underground Railway, has been opened
to the public for the first time in its 100
year history, including a subterranean
ride through some of the original
tunnels.
Throughout this October half-term,
The Postal Museum invites visitors to
discover surprising characters and
wonderful words through the magic of
writing. Head along for a fun-filled
programme of activities for kids of all
ages spanning arts, crafts and
illustrator-led workshops.
Drawing inspiration from The Postal
Museum’s stories, kids can experiment
with calligraphy and papermaking, or
create their very own character with help
from a storybook illustrator. In the
galleries, brilliant pop-up performances
will bring exhibits to life, recounting
some of the most remarkable tales from
our postal past. This year, The Postal
Museum is also joining forces with
Bloomsbury Festival to celebrate 100
years of (some) women being granted
the right to vote in the UK.
Rides on The Postal Museum’s
100-year-old-railway, Mail Rail, and
45-minute sessions in the museum’s
postal-themed play space for the under
8s, Sorted!, can be added to the price of
a ticket. Thanks to National Lottery
players, The Postal Museum invest
money to help people across the UK
explore, enjoy and protect the heritage
they care about – from the archaeology
under our feet to the historic parks and
buildings we love, from precious
memories and collections to rare
wildlife.
Visitors should book online to
guarantee a visit for what is set to be a
fun-filled October half term.
Remembrance Sunday
11th November 2018
6.00pm
ROYAL
CHORAL
SOCIETY
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Richard Cooke
Reader:
Paul McGann
A concert of music and poetry
to
mark the centenary of the
end
of the First World Wa ar
Cadogan Hall
Sloane Te errace,
London SW1X 9DQ
www. .cadoganhall.com
(c) The Postal Museum
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Patti LuPone.
COMPANY Gielgud Theatre
When I first heard that surgery was
about to be performed on Stephen
Sondheim and George Furth’s groundbreaking
musical Company, I thought it a
gimmicky idea that had more to do with
hitching a ride on the trendy genderswapping
bandwagon than it did with
artistic integrity. I need not have worried.
It works very well indeed.
In the original 1970 production the
hero, Bobby, is a personable, 35 year-old
New York bachelor, who, much to the
frustration and efforts of his married
friends, is happy to play the field rather
than to commit to any one relationship.
With no shortage of available females or
the single bars they frequent who could
blame him?
The new version, set in contemporary
Manhattan, turns Bobby into Bobbie – a
35 year-old singleton who, like her male
counterpart, is unmarried and also shy of
commitment.
In 1970, such behaviour would not
have been acceptable and her social life
would have been severely compromised.
(Several divorcees, widows and
perennially unmarried women I knew in
the 70’s and 80’s told me they were rarely,
if ever, invited to dinner parties for fear
that they might flirt with their hostess’s
husbands.)
Today, with the new-found
empowerment of women, greater gender
equality and hard-fought independence,
the whole dynamic of the show changes.
Now, if a woman of 35 is unmarried it’s
probably by choice, not because she can’t
find a man. What her single-status elicits
from her married friends isn’t sympathy,
but envy.
Furth’s approach to marriage in his
witty but superficial libretto is ambiguous
to say the least. In what is basically a
series of vignettes (you will search in vain
for a plot) being married and everything it
entails is put under a microscope with
ambiguous results. In essence, what this
sophisticated musical demonstrates is
that marriage is both a conduit for
happiness as well as a curse. I’ve seen
about six or seven different productions of
it including Hal Prince’s brilliant original,
and I still can’t decide which side it
ultimately favours.
This newest interpretation,
exhilaratingly directed by Marianne Elliott,
is full of wonderfully inventive touches
and brings into sharp focus the pros and
Photos: Brinkhoff Mogenburg.
cons of total commitment to marriage or
serious relationships. Today, what society
once expected, if not demanded, from
men and women is no longer as gender
specific as it was fifty years ago. The goal
posts have changed.
With her biological clock remorselessly
ticking away, Bobbie (Rosalie Craig) takes
stock of her life following a ‘surprise’ party
for her 35th birthday given by a group of
her married friends, each of whom in their
own way, persuade her (and, in the
process try to convince themselves) that
marriage is a joy. They include Sarah and
Harry (Mel Giedroyc and Gavin Spokes),
an argumentative couple literally as well
as metaphorically into Ju Jitsu; thrice
married Joanne (Patti LuPone), a selfloathing
bitch who can’t understand why
her latest long-suffering husband David
(Richard Henders) still loves her, and, in
another gender switch from the original,
Jamie (Jonathan Bailey) and his husbandto-be
Paul (Alex Gaumond).
Referencing Alice in Wonderland –
both physically as in the series of small,
disorientating neon-outlined box-rooms
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in which much of the action takes place
(the designer is Bunny Christie), and
occasionally in the surreal way Bobbie
views the confusion in her life, Elliott
brings a complexity and an uneasy sense
of displacement to Furth’s utilitarian text,
into which Sondheim has weaved one of
his most durable scores.
With lyrics as witty, wise and wellturned
as anything by Lorenz Hart, the
greatest of all musical comedy lyricists,
the shallows in Furth’s book are more than
compensated for by such classic
Sondheim as the haunting Sorry-Grateful,
Marry Me A Little, Being Alive, and the
show’s two stand-out crowd pleasers.
Getting Married Today, a manic tonguetwister
brought on by the fear of Jamie’s
imminent marriage to Paul and flawlessly
delivered by Jonathan Bailey is one of
them, the other is The Ladies Who Lunch,
which finds Broadway veteran Patti
LuPone at the very top of her game. It’s a
bitingly satirical, deliciously toxic ode to
the emptiness of her seen-it-all-before life
and LuPone brings to it a touch of real
pazazz which I have to say I found lacking
in Rosalie Craig’s Bobbie.
Though Craig’s a consummate
professional with a very good singing
voice, that indefinable quality called star
eludes her. She does everything right but
I just wish I cared for her more. Her best
work is in the number Barcelona, in which
she picks up and seduces Andy (Richard
Fleeshman) a somewhat effete, rather
camp flight attendant with a truly
amazingly-honed body.
Not all the supporting performers are
as good as their material and I found
much of Liam Steel’s choreography jerky.
He seemed to have worked more more on
his dancer’s hands than their feet.
Its flaws notwithstanding, this is
musical theatre at its sophisticated best
and a triumph for Marianne Elliott who
with real skill and insight, has fashioned
a Company for the Me Too generation and
nudged the show well and truly into the
21st Century.
CLIVE HIRSCHHORN
Jim Broadbent (Hans), James Roberts (Charles Jr), Regan Garcia (Walter), Audrey
Hayhurst (Kate), Elizabeth Berrington (Catherine), & Phil Daniels (Dickens) in
the world premiere of Martin McDonagh’s A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the
Bridge Theatre.
Photo: Manuel Harlan.
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Danielle Hope as Snow White and
Charlie Stemp as Prince Charming.
Photo: Paul Coltas and Image 1st.
PANTOMIME RETURNS TO LONDON
PALLADIUM WITH SNOW WHITE
Charlie Stemp will return to London
Palladium to play The Prince in this
year’s Pantomime, Snow White at the
London Palladium along with Danielle
Hope who will play the title role of Snow
White. They join Dawn French as The
Wicked Queen, Julian Clary as The Man
in The Mirror, Paul Zerdin as Muddles,
Nigel Havers as The Understudy, Gary
Wilmot as Mrs Crumble with Vincent
and Flavia as The King and The Queen.
Award-winning Charlie Stemp most
recently played Barnaby Tucker opposite
Bette Midler and Bernadette Peters in the
Broadway production of Hello, Dolly! He
played the title role in last year’s
Palladium pantomime Dick Whittington,
following his critically acclaimed
performance as Arthur Kipps in Half a
Sixpence at the Nöel Coward Theatre.
Danielle Hope is best known for
having won BBC 1’s Over the Rainbow,
which led to her professional theatre
debut in the lead role of Dorothy in
Andrew Lloyd Webber's production of
The Wizard Of Oz at the London
Palladium.
Actor, writer and comedian Dawn
French, who is making her pantomime
debut as The Wicked Queen, is an
original member of The Comic Strip and
one half of the comedy duo French and
Saunders.
Snow White at the London Palladium
is produced by Nick Thomas and
Michael Harrison, the award-winning
team behind last year’s Dick Whittington.
Nick Thomas is the founder and
Chairman of Qdos Entertainment Group,
one of the largest entertainment
companies in Europe. Qdos
Entertainment has produced 719
pantomimes over the past three decades,
and is the UK’s second largest regional
theatre and concert hall operator.
Michael Harrison has previously
produced over 100 pantomimes for
Qdos Entertainment where he is also
Managing Director. As a producer in the
West End his credits include Gypsy, The
Bodyguard, Annie and Mel Brooks'
Young Frankenstein.
Performances begin on Saturday
8 December with Gala Night on Tuesday
12 December, the run concluding on
Sunday 13 January. Box Office
telephone 020 7087 7747.
Dawn French as the Wicked Queen and
Julian Clary as the Man in the Mirror.
Photo: Image 1st.
BEYOND THE DEEPENING SHADOW
AT THE TOWER OF LONDON
Historic Royal Palaces are to stage a
major light and sound display at the
Tower of London to mark the centenary
of the end of the First World War. As the
nation commemorates the centenary of
the end of the First World War, Beyond
the Deepening Shadow: The Tower
Remembers, will fill the moat with
thousands of individual flames; a public
act of remembrance for the lives of the
fallen, honouring their sacrifice.
Beyond the Deepening Shadow is an
evolving installation, which will unfold
each evening over the course of four
hours, with the Tower moat gradually
illuminated by individual flames. The
unfolding visual spectacle will be
accompanied by a specially-commissioned
sound installation; a sonic exploration of
the shifting tide of political alliances,
friendship, love and loss in war. At the
centre of the sound installation lies a new
choral work, with words from war poet
Mary Borden’s Sonnets to a Soldier.
Beyond the Deepening Shadow will
begin with a procession led by the
Yeoman Warders of the Tower of
London. Emerging from the fortress, the
Yeoman Warders – themselves all
distinguished former servicemen and
women – will ceremonially light the first
flame. In a moving ritual, a select team
of volunteers will then proceed to light
the rest of the installation, gradually
creating a circle of light, radiating from
the Tower as a powerful symbol of
remembrance. The installation will be
free to view from Tower Hill from
4-11 November, up to Armistice Day.
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ENGLISH SCHOOLS’ ORCHESTRA
PERFORM IN THE PURCELL ROOM
Small is beautiful – that’s the key note
to this year’s English Schools’ Orchestra
concert (4 November, The Purcell Room,
South Bank). Expect a sell out as some
40 fine teenage musicians, supported by
the Navarra String Quartet, come
together as a unique, one-time Chamber
Orchestra. They’ll perform Richard
Strauss's Serenade, for Woodwind and
Horns, Elgar's Introduction and Allegro
for Strings, Beethoven’s Symphony No 7
and the Hebrides Overture, popularly
known as Fingal’s Cave. This
Mendelssohn piece, so evocative of
stormy tides, mirrors the touch of
turbulence surrounding this particular
ESO annual gala event which had
previously run legato and ripple free for
22 years.
Instrumental lessons are being
shelved in too many schools across the
country, and the English Schools’
Orchestra exists to redress the balance,
enabling talented young musicians, still
in full time education, to meet once a
year, enjoy a short burst of intense
rehearsal and make great music together.
But this autumn’s half-term dates shifted
unexpectedly, so that neither the usual
Hertfordshire rehearsal venue, nor the
iconic Cadogan Hall (previous home to
the full 90 strong ESO orchestra) were
free for the dates. Where two doors
closed however, The Purcell Room and
Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School
opened two more for the young people
and their many regular admirers,
including Dame Norma, Lady Major, wife
of the former Prime Minister and
biographer of Joan Sutherland.
Each member of The Navarra Quartet,
acclaimed for its ‘vivid sense of dramatic
expression’ will sit with their respective
instrumental section, to lend confidence
and play solo. Spectators may recognise
bars of Beethoven’s Seventh from the
movie The King’s Speech, and share the
soul spritzer this piece first provided in
1813, to a Vienna downcast by
Napoleon’s recent occupation. ‘This is
the piece I most look forward to playing’
says double bassist Elliott Simmonds.
‘It’s cool, exciting and action-packed.’
The 14 year old student from Alleyn’s
School Dulwich has been getting to
know the piece through Spotify and You
Tube and will enjoy polishing it (plus
playing ping pong in chill-out breaks)
with the friends he made on last year’s
rehearsal residential. For cellist Isabelle
Carnell, who is 16 and has just passed
Grade 8 with distinction, the stand-out
piece is the Hebrides Overture. ‘As I’ve
been preparing, I’ve visualised the
crashing water of Fingal’s Cave. The
wave seems a metaphor for the whole
piece’ says Isabelle who’s in Year 11 at
Cokethorpe School, Whitney. ‘With the
English Schools’ Orchestra you play
different music to a higher standard and
that’s how you grow to aspire.’
For tickets, telephone 020 3879 9555.
ANDREW ZOLINSKY EXPLORES
DEBUSSY AND JAPAN
Andrew Zolinsky marks the centenary
of the death of Debussy with a recital
exploring the composer’s fascination with
Eastern culture with a concert on Sunday
28 October (15.00) at St John’s Smith
Square. Alongside Debussy, Andrew
presents works by contemporary Japanese
composers which, in a recital of
fascinating juxtapositions, explore similar
aspects of space, time and spirituality.
Andrew says; ‘With the piano music
he wrote in the first fifteen years of the
twentieth century, Debussy changed the
sound of the piano forever. So many of
the composers writing for the piano after
this time (Messiaen, Stockhausen, to
name just two) would not have dared to
experiment with the wide range of
sound possibilities had Debussy not
explored the sonority of the instrument
with such imagination and courage. So
much of this new sound owes its
existence to his fascination with oriental
culture, in particular to Japanese prints
and the sound of the Javanese Gamelan.
It is this aspect of his art that I am
exploring in my programme. What
attracts me to any music and any
composer something individual, quirky,
original in the sound of their music. For
me, Debussy's music sounds like
nobody else's.’
For tickets to the performance,
telephone the St John’s Smith Square
box office: 020 7222 1061. Nearest tube
is Westminster, on the Jubilee Line.
Andrew Zolinsky.
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A MIGHTY PLEA FOR PEACE ON
REMEMBRANCE DAY WEEKEND
‘A mighty plea for peace.’ This is how
John Bate, Artistic Director of South West
London's Thames Philharmonic Choir,
describes Britten's War Requiem, which
the Choir will perform on 10 November at
Cadogan Hall (19.30). ‘This makes it
particularly appropriate to mark the
centenary of end of the First World War. It
is a great challenge to all who perform it,
but a wonderful experience, as it is also
for those who listen.’ A leading light on
the London choral music scene, this will
be John's last Cadogan Hall concert with
the Choir he founded in 1964 as he is due
to relinquish his baton in 2019.
The War Requiem was written for the
consecration in 1962 of the new Coventry
Cathedral, built to replace the medieval
building destroyed by bombing in the
Second World War. Britten, a pacifist who
registered as a conscientious objector
during the Second World War, chose to
set the traditional Latin Mass for the Dead
interwoven with nine poems about the
horror of war by English poet Wilfred
Owen, described by Britten as ‘our
greatest war poet’. Owen was killed in
action on 4 November 1918, one week
before the Armistice.
The Cadogan Hall concert, on
Remembrance Day weekend, brings
together Thames Philharmonic Choir and
Kingston's Tiffin Boys' Choir. The Thames
Festival Orchestra, under Leader Nandor
Szederkényi, will contribute both the main
orchestra and the instrumental ensemble,
the latter conducted by Benjamin Costello,
together with the male soloists. The boys'
choir will be directed by Ralph Allwood, a
well-known choral conductor and former
Director of Music at Eton College. The
performance overall will be conducted by
Thames Philharmonic's Artistic Director,
John Bate. The soloists for the
performance are Soprano Yvonne Howard,
Tenor Ben Johnson, and Baritone Matthew
Hargreaves, all established opera and
oratorio singers who have sung to great
acclaim with Thames Philharmonic Choir.
For tickets, telephone 020 7730 4500.
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The Thames Philharmonic Choir.
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ARMISTICE DAY – 100 YEARS ON
On Remembrance Sunday, 11.11.18,
the Royal Choral Society and the
London Philharmonic Orchestra will
mark the centenary of the Great War
Armistice with a concert of music and
poetry that signifies ‘Remembrance’ on
this national day of commemoration. The
concert in Cadogan Hall at 18.00 will be
one of the last opportunities in this
centenary year to remember and honour
those who sacrificed themselves to
secure and protect our freedom during
the First World War 1914–18.
The music has been especially
chosen to reflect the mood of
commemoration with Vaughan Williams’
impassioned Dona Nobis Pacem, set to
Walt Whitman’s evocative texts being the
centerpiece of the concert, supported by
Elgar’s reflective and lyrical Enigma
Variations, and two moving anthems –
John Ireland’s Greater Love Hath No
Man and Elgar’s The Spirit of the Lord.
The Royal Choral Society and the
London Philharmonic Orchestra will
perform alongside soloists Kate Royal
and Dominic Sedgwick, under the baton
of Royal Choral Society Music Director
Richard Cooke.
Actor Paul McGann (Withnail & I,
Doctor Who), who came to fame in the
title role of First World War TV drama
The Monocled Mutineer, will read a
selection of poignant First World War
The Royal Choral Society.
poetry; the words coming to us across
the century from the trenches of northern
France in 1918.
Whilst remembering those who
sacrificed their lives 100 years ago,
funds raised from the concert will go to
Combat Stress, a remarkable charity that
for almost a century has been helping
former servicemen and women deal with
trauma-related mental health problems.
The Royal Choral Society has
performed the great choral masterpieces
since its formation for the opening of the
Royal Albert Hall in 1871, including the
UK premières of Verdi’s Requiem in
1875, and Dvorak’s Stabat Mater in
1884, both concerts conducted by their
composers. The London Philharmonic
Orchestra is one of the world’s finest
symphony orchestras, balancing a long
and distinguished history with a
reputation as one of the UK’s most
adventurous and forward-looking
orchestras. Note concert start time
18.00.
Cadogan Hall is a short walk from
Sloane Square station, which is on the
Circle Line. A small selection of
sandwiches, snacks and cakes are
available from the food counter in the
Oakley Room, and the bar offers a large
selection of champagne, wines, spirits,
beer, soft drinks and tea and coffee.
Tickets at www.cadoganhall.com or
telephone 020 7730 4500.
THE ROYAL BALLET PRESENTS THE
UNKNOWN SOLDIER
The Royal Ballet premieres The
Unknown Soldier, a new one-act ballet
by Alastair Marriott, commemorating the
centenary of the end of The First World
War. The Unknown Soldier takes
inspiration from the Tomb of the
Unknown Solider in Westminster Abbey,
which commemorates an unknown
British soldier who was killed during
World War I. His tomb honours the
hundreds of thousands who died in
service.
Set designs are by renowned artist
Es Devlin and feature archive film
footage of World War I and audio
recordings of the last surviving veteran
Harry Patch and of Florence Billington
whose sweetheart was killed in battle.
The ballet is set to a newly
commissioned score by Oscar-winning
film composer Dario Marianelli (Oscar
winner for Best Original Film Score
Atonement, Oscar-nominated film scores
for Pride and Prejudice and Anna
Karenina).
The programme also includes Wayne
McGregor’s Infra, which received its
premiere at the Royal Opera House in
2008. This revival features a number of
debuts from the Company including
performances by Yasmine Naghdi, Cesar
Corrales, and Joseph Sissens.
The final work in this Triple Bill is
George Balanchine’s dazzling ballet
Symphony in C. Set to Bizet’s Symphony
no.1, this joyful piece is a showcase for
the whole company.
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WIMBLEDON TEMPORARILY MOVES
TO CHELSEA
Until the vision of a world class
Wimbledon Concert Hall has been
realised, Wimbledon Choral Society
(WCS) will perform larger scale works at
Cadogan Hall. The decision follows two
sell out concerts at Cadogan Hall in the
last 12 months, the Monteverdi Vespers
in November 2017, and a rare
performance of Duke Ellington’s Sacred
Concert in April 2018.
WCS next performance in the Cadogan
Hall is on 3 November 3 at 19.30. The
programme consists of just one work, the
blockbuster B Minor Mass by Johann
Sebastian Bach. Bach completed the B
Minor Mass in 1749, one year before he
died, and so never heard it performed in
its entirety. Now it is widely regarded as
the Mount Everest of choral works and
WCS is thrilled to be reuniting with
Florilegium, with whom they performed
the Monteverdi. The soloists will be Elin
Manahan Thomas singing soprano (Elin
sang at the wedding of Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle), Roderick Morris singing
counter tenor, Greg Tassell singing tenor
and Robert Davies as baritone.
Choir chair Sarah Hendry said,
‘Unfortunately for the time being we are
not able to perform these major works in
Wimbledon. Since the council
demolished the town hall, there simply
isn’t anywhere big enough. After trying
out a number of different venues we
have decided to concentrate on Cadogan
Hall. It’s a lovely venue and very
accessible for Wimbledon residents.’
Neil Ferris, Director of Music for
WCS, and conductor of the B Minor
Mass, said, ‘Cadogan Hall is a
wonderful venue for us – its Byzantine
revival architecture is inspiring and the
acoustics ideal for a concert of this
scale. We love performing there for the
sense of occasion; the audience feels
close and we love the atmosphere that
the building creates.’
Tickets at www.cadoganhall.com or
by telephone on 020 7730 4500.
Wimbledon Choral Society.
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The original Broadway cast of Come From Away.
COME FROM AWAY: A REMARKABLE
TRUE STORY LANDS IN LONDON
The Tony Award-winning new musical
Come From Away tells the remarkable true
story of 7,000 stranded air passengers
during the wake of 9/11, and the small
town in Newfoundland that welcomed
them. It will land in London for its longawaited
UK premiere at the Phoenix
Theatre on 18 February.
This joyous new musical recounts the
incredible true story of how the residents
of Gander, Newfoundland welcomed the
passengers of planes from around the
world. Cultures clashed, and nerves ran
high, but as uneasiness turned into
trust, music soared into the night and
gratitude grew into enduring friendships.
Photos: Matthew Murphy.
On 11 September 2001 the world
stopped. On 12 September, their stories
moved us all.
Earning widespread critical and
audience acclaim, the multi awardwinning
musical continues sold-out,
record-breaking engagements on
Broadway, and in Canada, with a 60-city
North American Tour launching in October
in Seattle, an Australian production
confirmed for summer 2019, and a feature
film adaptation in the works.
Come From Away is produced in the
UK and Ireland by Junkyard Dog
Productions and Smith & Brant
Theatricals.
Box Office telephone 0844 871 7615.
www.ComeFromAwayLondon.co.uk
ZSL LONDON ZOO’S ASIATIC LIONS
CELEBRATE AUTUMN
Nothing says ‘autumn’ like pumpkinspiced
treats and jumping into a
mountain of fallen leaves – which is
exactly what zookeepers at ZSL London
Zoo arranged for the Asiatic lions.
The playful pride marked the turn of
the season by pouncing on a giant pile
of colourful leaves, scented with the
Zoo’s special blend of warming spices –
purrfected with the four felines in mind.
ZSL London Zoo lion keeper Tara
Humphrey said: ‘Just like kids around
the country this half-term, Heidi, Indi,
Rubi and Bhanu dived right into the
massive mound of leaves – scented with
cinnamon, cardamom and cloves.
Cardamom in particular is Bhanu’s
favourite smell, and after waiting
patiently for the girls to finish rolling
around he spent hours nestled in
amongst the leaves, basking in the warm
autumn weather. All the lions loved
using their incredible sense of smell to
explore the new aromatic scents in their
territory – who doesn’t love rolling
around in the autumn leaves?’
Head to ZSL London Zoo this
autumn half-term for a packed day of fun
events, including the exciting live show
Gruesome Nature Live!
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LONDON CHORAL SINFONIA TO
PERFORM MOZART REQUIEM
On Saturday 10 November (19.30) the
London Choral Sinfonia and a fabulous
host of soloists will open their 2018/19
concert season with Mozart’s towering
Requiem, a work filled with agony, anger,
triumph and beauty, alongside Arvo
Pärt's haunting Cantus in Memoriam
Benjamin Britten. Taking place on the
eve of the centenary of Armistice Day,
there will be a definite air of solemnity
and remembrance, as the Mozart and
Pärt are paired with Parry’s heartrending
and arresting Songs of Farewell
in this centenary year of his death.
Composed during the First World War,
Parry wrote these arresting settings in
the knowledge that he himself did not
have much time left. This will all take
place in the evocative surroundings of
St John’s Smith Square, a wonderful
church-turned-concert hall hidden in a
Westminster residential street. This
concert is the next instalment of their
ongoing Requiem Project, a venture
spearheaded by their founder and artistic
director Michael Waldron. The LCS have
performed a requiem each season since
2015, starting with those of Brahms,
Duruflé and Rutter. Still to come is
Fauré’s Requiem, a classic beloved by
musicians and non-musicians alike, and
the project’s culmination in 2020 with
Verdi’s masterwork.
The London Choral Sinfonia,
described by Michael White as ‘a young,
professional ensemble of impeccable
technique and elegance’, is London’s
newest chamber choir and instrumental
ensemble, led by Michael Waldron. They
continue to delight audiences by
bringing new life to choral works in a
wide range of classical styles, and this
time is sure to be no different.
To book tickets for this unmissable
concert visit the website at
sjss.org.uk/events/remembrance. More
information about the LCS can be found
at thelcs.org, and for more information
about their founder Michael Waldron,
visit michael-waldron.com.
The London Choral Sinfonia.
Andrew Zolinsky, piano
Debussy and Japan
A recital exploring Debussy’s links with Eastern culture
Sunday 28th October 2018, 3pm
St John’s Smith Square
London SW1P 3HA
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BOB DYLAN, MONDO SCRIPTO AT HALCYON GALLERY
Halcyon Gallery is currently showing a brand new Bob Dylan
collection, Mondo Scripto, featuring the artist and songwriter’s
most renowned lyrics, each handwritten by him in pen on paper
and accompanied by an original pencil drawing by the artist.
Mondo Scripto will run through November. Bob Dylan is one
of the great American artists and a worldwide cultural icon
who has been inspiring audiences for six decades.
Having forever changed the
relationship between music and language,
Dylan became the first musician to be
awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
2016, recognised ‘for having created new
poetic expressions within the great
American song tradition’.
As stated by Paul Green, President of
Halcyon Gallery, ‘In this groundbreaking
historical event, Dylan has for the first
time fused together his artistic
disciplines, bringing a new perspective
to the music and lyrics. Dylan’s
creativity across all mediums has
established him as a modern legend,
informing and shaping each generation
for more than half a century.’
Mondo Scripto explores this seminal
body of work from many different and
surprising angles. Dylan is continually
breathing new life into his songs, both
musically and lyrically, reworking them to
unveil new discoveries in each chord and
phrase. With Mondo Scripto, Dylan
continues to reinvigorate his work by
occasionally altering a lyrical line –
sometimes overtly, other times subtly.
With ‘Gotta Serve Somebody’ (1979) and
‘If You See Her, Say Hello’ (1975), Dylan
has completely redrafted some verses to
imbue the songs with new meaning.
Some lyrics, such as those of ‘Tangled Up
In Blue’ (1975), have been rewritten
especially for this exhibition. The
individual pencil drawings that
accompany each lyric enhance this
unfolding dialogue with the artist’s
audience.
Also featured in the exhibition is an
original installation reimagining ‘Knockin’
On Heaven’s Door’ (1973), illustrated line
by line. As Tom Piazza, a celebrated
novelist and writer on American music,
states in the foreword to the exhibition
catalogue, ‘Mondo Scripto provides the
occasion for a fresh and unexpected
window on one of the most significant
bodies of work of any creative artist in our
time.’ He writes, ‘Dylan’s restlessly creative
mind is never wholly satisfied, and those
familiar with these songs will find surprise
at many a new turn of phrase. The
unexpected couplings of these works and
images offer a surprisingly intimate door
into each song, adding dimension, delight
and insight into the artist’s relation to his
own work.’
Mondo Scripto will span the entire
space of Halcyon Gallery’s 144-146 New
Bond Street location. Alongside this, a
series of signed, limited edition prints
will on display at Halcyon Gallery’s site
opposite at 29 New Bond Street.
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A SHORT WALK IN THE SOLU
KHUMBU BY JAMES HAWKINS
RhueArt gallery are presenting an
exhibition by James Hawkins at
La Galleria from Monday 29 October to
Sunday 3 November to raise money for
The Little Sherpa foundation. Renowned
Landscape painter James Hawkins and
his wife Flick have recently been on an
amazing trip in the Solu Khumbu region
of Himalayas with Tengboche Trekking.
Tengboche Trekking is unique
partnership set up by Tashi Lama, a
Buddhist monk from the Tengboche
Monastery and James Lamb from
Scotland. Profits from this partnership
are donated to The Little Sherpa
Foundation which was originally
established to support families affected
by climbing incidents in Mount Everest
National Park in Nepal. However, the
recent devastating earthquakes changed
that, so the charity now helps anyone in
the region in need. Some of the
proceeds from this exhibition will be
donated to The Little Sherpa Foundation.
A graduate of the Ruskin School of
Drawing in Oxford and Wimbledon,
James Hawkins is one of the best
contemporary landscape painters in
Scotland. He has been working at Rhue
near Ullapool in the far North West for
nearly 40 years now. His unique style of
painting has developed steadily during
this time to a point where he straddles
abstraction and figuration with dextrous
ability. His rich and luscious paint
surfaces are edible at times, brutally
indigestible at others. Every square inch
of canvas is packed with frenetic
gestures.
An abstract realist who invests his
work with limitless energy which seems
to bounce back off the multi coloured
canvas; he is the man who has come
closest to the impossible task of
capturing the essence of a landscape
that is like trying to paint the colours of
the wind.
RhueArt Gallery, just North of
Ullapool, is set in magnificent scenery
on the shores of Lochbroom looking out
over the Summer Isles. Originally
opened in 1980 it features the studio
and gallery of James Hawkins, Recently
a beautiful display space has been
added showing changing exhibitions by
National and International Artists; all of
whose work is influenced by the natural
environment. The catalogue and prices
are available on request from
www.jameshawkinsart.co.uk/texts/nepal
EDWARD BURNE-JONES AT
TATE BRITAIN
Tate Britain has on display the largest
Edward Burne-Jones retrospective to be
held in the UK for a generation. Renowned
for otherworldly depictions of beauty
inspired by myth, legend and the Bible,
Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) was a
pioneer of the symbolist movement and the
only Pre-Raphaelite to achieve world-wide
recognition in his lifetime. This ambitious
and wide-ranging exhibition brings
together over 150 works in different media
including painting, stained glass and
tapestry, reasserting him as one of the most
influential British artists of the 19th century.
Edward Burne-Jones charts his rise
from an outsider of British art to one of
the great artists of the European fin de
siècle. Burne-Jones rejected Victorian
industrial ideals, offering an enchanted
parallel universe inhabited by beautiful
and melancholy beings. The exhibition
brings together all the major works from
across his four-decade career.
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Jordan Luke Gage as Strat and the cast. Photo: Specular.
HALLOWEEN SINGALONG AT
BAT OUT OF HELL
The producers of Jim Steinman’s Bat
Out Of Hell – The Musical are presenting
a series of special performances when the
audience can sing along with the cast to
the classic hits.
And this week, for Halloween on
31 October and also on New Year’s Eve,
audiences will have the option to attend
dressed as their favourite character from
the show or from one of Meat Loaf’s
iconic videos. The best dressed audience
member on each night will go home that
evening with a Bat Out Hell – The Musical
poster signed by Meat Loaf himself.
Bat Out Of Hell – The Musical wowed
critics and public alike when it played at
the London Coliseum in 2017, and has
been seen by over 650,000 people to date.
A new production opens in Toronto this
autumn as the first stop in a multi-city
North American tour.
Bat Out Of Hell became one of the
best-selling albums in history, selling
over 50 million copies worldwide.16 years
later, Steinman scored again with Bat Out
Of Hell II: Back Into Hell, which contained
the massive hit I Would Do Anything For
Love (But I Won’t Do That). For the stage
musical, the legendary and award-winning
Jim Steinman has incorporated iconic
songs from the Bat Out Of Hell albums,
including You Took The Words Right Out
Of My Mouth, Bat Out Of Hell, I Would Do
Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That)
and Two Out Of Three Ain’t Bad, as well as
two previously unreleased songs, What
Part of My Body Hurts the Most and Not
Allowed to Love.
In April 2018, Bat Out Of Hell – The
Musical announced a wide-ranging global
partnership to support the Invictus Games
Foundation, the governing body of the
Invictus Games, a global sporting event
for wounded, injured and sick servicemen
and women, both serving and veterans.
The Invictus Games are currently taking
place in Sydney, Australia, with 500
competitors from 18 nations contesting
medals in 11 different sports, with events
being held across Greater Sydney,
including Sydney Olympic Park and on
and around the iconic Sydney Harbour.
On Thursday 6 December, there will be
a special Gala Performance of Bat Ouf of
Hell at the Dominion in support of the
Invictus Games Foundation.
Tickets for all performances available
from the Box Office on 0845 200 7982.
STORIES
Dorfman until 28 November
All through Nina Raine’s wittily written
and intermittently touching new play I
longed to add ‘or The Search for Sperm’
to its one word title as 39 year old
playwright Anna, her biological clock
ticking ever more desperately, hunts for
a suitable donor. After two years of
trying for a baby the natural way with
much younger boyfriend Tom, he’s
chickened out when it comes to the final
step of IVF. Unlike her, he’s just not
ready to become a parent and has
walked away, leaving her to pursue the
various options offered by the internet –
a family affair involving her mum, dad
(Stephen Boxer) and brother in the
selection process - or the possibility of
finding a willing father among an
extended field of acquaintances.
In a succession of short scenes,
Claudie Blakley’s sympathetic,
maternally unfulfilled Anna goes from
one prospect to another, telling each one
that he’s the first she’s asked. A
musician, a bereaved actor, an older film
director and a gay writer of fantasy
fiction (nicely differentiated by Sam
Troughton who plays every one) – all,
understandably though frustratingly for
her, back away from the responsibility.
Raine (whose own son was conceived
with a university friend – and, as a newborn,
made his stage debut in Consent,
her hit at this theatre last year), also
directs. And on Jeremy Herbert’s
uncluttered traverse stage, with its
sliding box-like beds, each of Anna’s
encounters proves a little story in itself –
though with no guarantee that any of the
tales told would have been happily
embraced by a resultant offspring as he
or she grew up.
Louise Kingsley
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PLAYS
A VERY VERY VERY DARK MATTER
World premiere of Martin McDonagh’s new
play. As dangerous, twisted and funny as
The Pillowman, it travels deep into the
abysses of the imagination.
BRIDGE THEATRE
One Tower Bridge, SE1 (0843 208 1846)
WITNESS FOR THE PROSECUTION
The acclaimed production of Agatha Christie’s
classic courtroom play has captured the
imagination of audiences inside the unique
setting of County Hall’s ornate Chamber on
the South Bank.
COUNTY HALL
South Bank, SE1 (0844 815 7141)
THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY
One enormous diamond, eight incompetent
crooks and a snoozing security guard. What
could possibly go right?
CRITERION THEATRE
Piccadilly Circus, (020 7492 0810)
THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG
A Polytechnic amateur drama group are
putting on a 1920s murder mystery and
everything that can go wrong... does!
DUCHESS THEATRE
Catherine Street, WC2 (0330 333 4810)
KING LEAR
Jonathan Munby’s explosive revival of
Shakespeare’s epic tragedy with a celebrated
cast led by Ian McKellen as the embittered
monarch in a fractured kingdom. Until 3 Nov.
DUKE OF YORK’S THEATRE
St Martin’s Lane, WC2 (020 7492 1552)
THE WOMAN IN BLACK
An innocent outsider, a suspicious rural
community, a gothic house and a misty marsh
are the ingredients of this Victorian ghost story.
FORTUNE THEATRE
Russell Street, WC2 (0844 871 7626)
PINTER AT THE PINTER
All twenty short plays written by the greatest
British playwright of the 20th Century. They
have never before been performed together in
a season of this kind.
HAROLD PINTER THEATRE
Panton Street, SW1 (0844 871 7627)
Royal National Theatre Plays in repertory
OLIVIER THEATRE
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA
Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play the
famous fated couple. At the fringes of a wartorn
empir,e the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra
and Mark Antony have fallen fiercely in love.
LYTTELTON THEATRE
I'M NOT RUNNING
David Hare's 18th play to open at the National
Theatre, bringing his characteristic themes of
British politics and public versus private
relationships to the Lyttelton stage.
DORFMAN THEATRE
STORIES
Following the critically acclaimed Consent,
Nina Raine returns to the National with a new
play about the fertilisation of an idea.
NATIONAL THEATRE
South Bank, SE1 (020 7452 3000)
THE INHERITANCE
Matthew Lopez's major two-part world
premiere questions how much we owe to
those who lived and loved before us.
Directed by Stephen Daldry.
NOEL COWARD THEATRE
St. Martin’s Lane, WC2 (0844 482 5140)
HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED
CHILD PARTS I & II
Stage play based on the Harry Potter franchise
written by Jack Thorne, based on an original
story by J.K Rowling.
PALACE THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4813)
THE JUNGLE
Experience the intense, moving and uplifting
encounters between refugees in the Calais
camp from many different countries and the
volunteers who arrived from the UK. Until
3 November.
PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Northumberland Ave, WC2 (0844 871 7631)
FAULTY TOWERS DINING EXPERIENCE
Inspired by one of Britain's greatest ever
comedy series, this 2 hour interactive
production is set in a restaurant where you the
audience are the diners.
RADISSON BLU EDWARDIAN
Bloomsbury Street, (0845 1544 145)
THE MOUSETRAP
Agatha Christie’s whodunnit is the longest
running play of its kind in the history of
British theatre.
ST MARTIN’S THEATRE
West Street, WC2 (0844 499 1515)
THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM
A compelling family drama by Florian Zeller, a
searing exploration of love and the fragility of
life. Stars Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins
on stage together for the first time.
WYNDHAM’S THEATRE
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 482 5120)
ASPECTS OF LOVE
Following the critically acclaimed
season at the Hope Mill Theatre,
Manchester this summer, Katy Lipson
for Aria Entertainment and Hope Mill
Theatre have announced the transfer of
their production of Aspects of Love at
Southwark Playhouse for a limited
season from 7 January to 9 February.
This will be the fourth London
transfer from Hope Mill Theatre,
following Yank!, Hair and Pippin, and
the award-winning 50th anniversary
production of Hair has recently
announced a major UK tour in 2019.
TOP GIRLS AT THE NATIONAL
THEATRE
For the first time, the National Theatre
is to stage Top Girls, Caryl Churchill’s
wildly innovative play about a country
divided by its own ambitions.
Marlene is the first woman to head
the Top Girls employment agency. But
she has no plans to stop there. With
Maggie in at Number 10 and a spirit of
optimism consuming the country,
Marlene knows that the future belongs to
women like her.
The cast includes Liv Hill (Angie),
Katherine Kingsley (Marlene), Wendy
Kweh (Lady Nijo), Amanda Lawrence
(Pope Joan), Ashley McGuire (Dull
Gret), Ashna Rabbheru(Kit) and Siobhan
Redmond (Isabella Bird). Collaborating
for the first time since Light Shining in
Buckinghamshire, NT Associate Lyndsey
Turner directs.
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CHICAGO
The award-winning tale of nightclub singer
Roxie Hart, her cell-block rival Velma Kelly
and the smooth-talking lawyer Billy Flynn.
PHOENIX THEATRE
Charing Cross Road, WC2 (0844 871 7627)
ALADDIN
The classic hit film has been brought to thrilling
life on stage by Disney, featuring all the songs
from the Academy Award winning score.
PRINCE EDWARD THEATRE
Old Compton Street, W1 (0844 482 5151)
Josefina Gabrielle returns to the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago from 22 October.
MUSICALS
KINKY BOOTS
Inspired by a true story and based on the
Miramax film, the show tells the story of
Charlie Price who has reluctantly inherited his
father's Northampton shoe factory.
ADELPHI THEATRE
Strand, WC2 (020 3725 7060)
TINA
New musical based on the life of legendary
artist Tina Turner.
ALDWYCH THEATRE
The Aldwych, WC2 (0845 2007981)
WICKED
Hit Broadway story of how a clever,
misunderstood girl with emerald green skin
and a girl who is beautiful and popular turn
into the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda
the Good Witch in the Land of Oz.
APOLLO VICTORIA THEATRE
Wilton Road, SW1 (0844 826 8000)
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE
New feel good musical starring John McCrea.
Supported by his loving mum and friends,
Jamie overcomes prejudice, beats the bullies
steps out of the darkness, into the spotlight.
APOLLO THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0330 333 4809)
BAT OUT OF HELL
Jay Scheib's stage musical, written by Jim
Steinman, featuring Meat Loaf's greatest hits.
DOMINION THEATRE
Tottenham Court Road, W1 (0845 200 7982)
MATILDA
Critically acclaimed Royal Shakespeare
Company production of Roald Dahl’s book,
directed by Matthew Warchus.
CAMBRIDGE THEATRE
Earlham Street, WC2 (0844 800 1110)
COMPANY
Marianne Elliott directs Stephen Sondheim and
George Furth’s musical.
GIELGUD THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, W1 (0844 482 5130)
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
Long running epic romance by Andrew Lloyd
Webber, setin Paris opera house where a
deformed phantom stalks his prey.
HER MAJESTY’S THEATRE
Haymarket, SW1 (0844 412 2707)
THE LION KING
Disney‘s phenomenally successful animated
film is transformed into a spectacular stage
musical, a superb evening of visual delight.
LYCEUM THEATRE
Wellington Street, WC2 (0844 871 3000)
THRILLER – LIVE
High octane show celebrating the career of the
King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Over two
hours of the non-stop hit songs that marked
his legendary live performances.
LYRIC THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0330 333 4812)
SCHOOL OF ROCK
Andrew Lloyd Webber's new stage musical
with lyrics by Glenn Slater and book by Julian
Fellowes, adapted from the film.
GILLIAN LYNNE THEATRE
Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
MAMMA MIA!
Hit musical based on the songs of ABBA, set
around the story of a mother and daughter on
the eve of the daughter’s wedding.
NOVELLO THEATRE
Aldwych, WC2 (0844 482 5170)
BOOK OF MORMON
Broadway musical takes shots at everything
from organised religion to consumerism, state
of the economy and the musical theatre genre.
PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE
Coventry Street, W1 (0844 482 5115)
LES MISERABLES
A spectacularly staged version of Victor Hugo’s
epic novel about an escaped convict’s
search for redemption in Revolutionary France.
QUEEN’S THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (0844 482 5160)
DREAMGIRLS
Set in the USA during the late 1960s and
early 1970s, the story follows a young female
singing trio as they become music superstars.
SAVOY THEATRE
Strand, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
MOTOWN THE MUSICAL
Featuring all the much loved classics from
Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, and the Jackson 5,
the show tells the story behind the hits.
SHAFTESBURY THEATRE
Shaftesbury Avenue, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
42ND STREET
The song and dance, American dream fable,
where a small town girl, Peggy Sawyer’s rise
from chorus line to Broadway star.
THEATRE ROYAL
Drury Lane, WC2 (020 7492 0810)
HEATHERS
An adaptation of the classic 1980s movie
features sensational brand-new songs, and
stars Carrie Hope Fletcher as Veronica.
THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET
Haymarket SW1 (020 7930 8800)
HAMILTON
Lin-Manuel Miranda's multi award-winning
musical, based on Ron Chernow's biography
of one of the American Founding Fathers,
Alexander Hamilton.
VICTORIA PALACE THEATRE
Victoria Street, SW1 (0844 248 5000)
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