YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Comedy Festivals Musicals Opera Theatre
Monday 4 August 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Monday 28 July 2014
And the LDN-based events the ThisWeek team is tipping today are…
COMEDY: Camden Fringe – Professor Bennison’s Life Of Pi | Camden Head | 4-6 Aug
“Disgraced” ex-math (maths?) teacher James Bennison has a go at making maths (math?) funny with his solo show ‘Life Of Pi’. Aiming higher than simply tapping ‘80087355’ into a calculator, he’ll instead be sharing a quantity of jokes on integers, algebra, silly children and a “universally accepted qualification – the JCSE”. Details and tickets here.
MUSICAL: Grim | Charing Cross Theatre | 4-30 Aug
A ‘Romeo & Juliet’ kind of tale on a fantastical scale, theatre co Untold’s all-singing, all-dancing ‘Grim’ imagines ‘what if’ the Grim Reaper (who in this case is a lady) fell deathly in love with Cupid, a winged man-god with a penchant for matchmaking. Will their affair prove complicated? I’d say it maybe might. Details and tickets here.
OPERA: Grimeborn Opera Festival – San Domino | Arcola Theatre | 4-6 Aug (pictured)
Back for its eighth year active, Grimeborn Opera Fest once again showcases rising composers and artists, under-appreciated and rarely-aired works, and bold, innovative adaptations of the classics. It starts off tonight with Tim Anfilogoff & Alan Whittaker’s facist-era-Italy-based ‘San Domino’, which follows a band of friends imprisoned on an island because they are gay. Details and tickets here.
