YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Comedy Dance & Physical Music Spoken Word Theatre
Thursday 30 October 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Monday 27 October 2014
And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…
COMEDY: Raising The Dead w/ Gein’s Family Giftshop + Thom Tuck + Adam Larter | Aces & Eights | 30 Oct (pictured)
‘NOT a human-eating robot‘ Alexander Bennett, via his This Is Not A Cult showcase, throws a spooky variety night (yeah, it’s a bit early – and so what?) featuring Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated trio Gein’s Family Giftshop (seen here identifying their ideal creepy trinkets with ThreeWeeks), vaguely unhinged This Is Not A Cult co-host Thom Tuck, Weirdos Comedy president Adam Larter and macabre character comic Milo McCabe. Details and tickets here.
DANCE/THEATRE: DV8 – John | National Theatre | 30 Oct – 13 Jan 2015
Based on over 50 frank interviews DV8 AD Lloyd Newson did with men re their sex and love lives; verbatim piece ‘John’ combines dance and dialogue to follow one man’s story from years of crime and drug use, into ‘a place unknown by most’. Containing strong language and nudity only suitable for adults, ‘John’ follows DV8’s acclaimed show ‘Can We Talk About This?’. Details and tickets here.
MUSIC: Red Bull Culture Clash | Earls Court | 30 Oct
JME, Skepta, Wiley and the various MCs of London grime clique Boy Better Know are going crew-to-crew with A$AP Rocky’s all-American-rap A$AP Mob (aka A$APs Ferg, Nast, Ant et al); Rebel Sound’s David Rodigan, Shy FX and Chase & Status; and a rock-steady roster from reggae label Stone Love Jamaica in this year’s Red Bull Culture Clash, a Jamaican-PA-system-style battle in which all crews vie to make the most noise, and please/deafen the audience. There’ll be games like ‘The Selector’ (in which rappers/DJs are assessed on their choice of tracks), and ‘Sleeping With The Enemy’ (in which opponents switch styles), whilst the finale is ‘Armageddon’, in which pretty well anything can happen, even the end of the world. Also, take-downs are mandatory. Details and tickets here.
