YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Comedy Opera Theatre
Saturday 5 April 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Sunday 30 March 2014
TODAY IN LONDON, ThisWeek’s tipped events feature high-end West End playwright David Grieg, electro composer Matthew Herbert, and the strangest thing to happen to ‘Countdown’ since, erm, ever; Joe Wilkinson…
COMEDY: Live At The Chapel feat Joe Wilkinson/Aisling Bea/Alistair Green, Union Chapel, 5 Apr
MC Alex Horne conducts this edition of one of LDN’s more superior stand-up nights, whose line-up tonight gives time to beardy weirdy telly star Joe Wilkinson, chatty Irish comedian Aisling Bea, and much-admired poster boy for ‘odd’, Alistair Green. Details and tickets here.
OPERA: The Crackle, Linbury Studio Theatre (Royal Opera House), 5-12 Apr (pictured)
Sound artist Matthew Herbert fine-tunes and updates the ‘Faust’ story for the Royal Opera as part of the ROH’s ‘Faustian Pack’ season of shows, making the good Dr an aspirational music teacher/academic tempted by potent new technology. This radical interplay of ‘music, mobiles and Mephistopheles’ is live-scored with a mix of more traditional songs and glitchy digital sounds, with the option for the audience to join in via the phone app Chirp, which changes images into noises. Details and tickets here.
THEATRE: The Events, Queen Elizabeth Hall, 5 Apr
Scottish writer David Grieg’s weighty play, which was first seen at the Young Vic last year, centres on gay priest Claire, who experiences an atrocity and thereafter strives to understand the breadth of terrible things she’s seen. Details and tickets here.
