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Art & Events Comedy Dance & Physical
Thursday 16 October 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Friday 10 October 2014
And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…
ART/EXHIBITION: Anarchy And Beauty – William Morris And His Legacy | National Portrait Gallery | 16 Oct – 11 Jan 2015 (pictured)
Victorian artist, craftsman, writer and all-over visionary radical William Morris, him of printed floral wallpaper fame, is paid homage to in a spotlit showcase of his portraits, furniture, textiles, homeware and personal paraphernalia – many pieces of which are on display for the first time in all of time. Arranged alongside his work are bits n bobs by his contemporaries Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones; plus a horde of books, jewellery, ceramics and clothing by Morris inspirees like Eric Gill, Terence Conran and Bernard Leach. Details and tickets here.
COMEDY: Stuart Laws – When’s This Gonna Stop | Hen & Chickens Theatre | 16 Oct
Oi, it’s ya boy, the spontaneous and slightly unhinged Stuart Laws, who in his Edinburgh-Fringe-reprising solo show ‘When’s This Gonna Stop’ will toy with topics like catchphrases, gibbons, Billy Joel, spiders and ‘Donnie Darko’. Details and tickets here.
DANCE: Rocío Molina – Bosque Andora | Barbican | 16-18 Oct
Skirt-tossing first-lady-of-flamenco Rocío Molina choreographs and stars in this dance based around the ‘animal’ instinct for survival, as a cast of two male dancers and six musicians accompany Molina in a whirl of drama, sound looping and, of course, some moving; all with a crisp and distinctly non-‘trad’ aesthetic. Details and tickets here.
