Dance & Physical Theatre ThisWeek In London

Three To See On 6 Oct: Oil, Ballet Black – Triple Bill, Domestica

By TW Editorial | Published on Thursday 29 September 2016

And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…

Oil | Almeida Theatre | 7-26 Nov
“What do you do when you know it’s going to run out? Oil follows the lives of one woman and her daughter in an epic, hurtling crash of empire, history and family.” The latest show to go up over at The Almeida is this piece about that obviously finite resource from young-shooting-star-playwright Ella Hickson, starring the also highly regarded Anne Marie Duff. What else is there to be said? See this page for all the details.

Ballet Black – Triple Bill | Theatre Royal Stratford East | 6-8 Oct (pictured)
Acclaimed International dance troupe Ballet Black present a triple bill featuring two newly devised pieces – Christopher Marney’s ‘To Begin, Begin’ and ‘Cristaux’ by recent Olivier Award Winner Arthur Pita – plus Christopher Hampson’s ‘Storyville’. This show previously sold out performances at the Barbican, so head this way to book your tickets before they all disappear…

Domestica | Battersea Arts Centre | 5-8 Oct
This is described as a “woozy, deadpan, and extensively-annotated dismantling of high art and classical posturing that asks where exactly we might be going in this ever-louder, ever-accelerating new century”, and is part of ‘Lost In The Funhouse’, award winning experimental/live art troupe Sleepwalk Collective’s loosely linked trilogy exploring pleasure and boredom in the 21st century. For more info and to book, see this page here.