YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Comedy Dance & Physical Festivals Film Theatre
Monday 20 October 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Tuesday 14 October 2014
And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…
COMEDY: The Hidden Gems Of The Edinburgh Fringe w/ Wil Hodgson + Mat Ewins | Prince Of Wales, Brixton | 20 Oct
Outlandish comic Wil Hodgson comes over all historical with his solo show ‘You Will Be Taken From This Place’, looking back on stories of strange-but-true executioners, and hangings, of old; whilst Mat Ewins plays his own incarnation of ‘The Six Million Dollar Man’ in a bionic spy thriller that has to be seen to be… well, still not believed. Both Fringe features play at the height of a week of Prince Of Wales-hosted ‘Hidden Gems’, which also includes drop-ins by Michael Brunstrom (alias The Human Loire), Richard Tyrone-Jones and Sh!t Theatre. Details and tickets here.
DANCE: TAO Dance Theatre – 6 & 7 | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 20-21 Oct
Beijing dance instructor Tao Ye’s latest work, a double-bill; consists of ‘6’, in which a cast of six dancers move in unison against a shifting backdrop of abstract light; and its natural sequel ‘7’; a continuation of his fascination of ritual and precision that’s soundtracked by acoustic noises made by the dancers own bodies. Both numbers are also scored with commissioned music from Chinese composer Xiao He, and play under this year’s Dance Umbrella festival. Details and tickets here.
FILM: Sci-Fi – Days Of Fear And Wonder | BFI Southbank | 20 Oct – 31 Dec (pictured)
Boasting an itinerary of film and TV replays the size of a small (and possibly inhospitable) planet; the BFI’s super-massive new sci-fi season (basically imagine every single science fiction movie or show you’ve have/haven’t ever seen, ever) is split very precisely into three segments; ‘Tomorrow’s World’, ‘Altered States’ and ‘Contact!’, and starts by spooling all the way back to game-changing filmmaker Fritz Lang’s 1927 genre signifier, the dystopian ‘Metropolis’, in all its restored-in-2010 glory. Details and tickets here.
