YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Comedy Festivals Music Theatre
Today in London: Friday 23 August 2013
By TW Editorial | Published on Monday 19 August 2013
Hurrah! The Real Street Food Festival starts today pon the Southbank, and will be frying, slathering, garnishing and generally catering to international appetites all Bank Hol. Whilst that’s as arty as ‘art’ gets as far as I’m aware, here are a few extra tasty plates to tickle even the hardest-to-please cultural tastebuds…
TODAY’S COMEDY CHOICES
The Intimate Strangers – Rizzolo Chat!, Canal Cafe Theatre, 23-24 Aug
The highly-TW-rated Intimate Strangers apply their significant sketch-pertise to this chaotic chat-show calamity, as host-with-the-least Rizzolo has in his hotseat an old horror movie star, a conspiracy theorist who is nothing like David Icke and a very special young guest from Great Ormond Street Hospital. Details and tickets here.
TODAY’S MUSIC CHOICES
Live By The Lake, Kenwood House, 23 Aug – 1 Sep
No, not an invitation to reside by the lake, rather a request to listen to live (rhymes with Clive) music by it; English Heritage’s quintessential fest sets the scene this eve via a headline set by Suede. Appreciable elsewhere in the week are a Choral Greats Firework Spectacular (24 Aug); an elemental ‘Singing In The Rain’ screening feat live backing by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra (30 Aug); An Evening Of Gershwin (and Michael Ball) (1 Sep); and an ‘edgy’ triple bill (25 Aug) feat Keane, Laura Mvula and tipped newb Jessica Sweetman. Details and tickets here.
TODAY’S THEATRE CHOICES
A Man For All Times, V&A, 23 Aug – 1 Sep (pictured)
Marking fifty years since Martin Luther King first said ‘I Have A Dream’, the verbatim play by Pulse Ensemble Theatre celebrates the political and private life and times of WEB Du Bois. A leading Civil Rights speaker and activist, and the first African American to gain a Harvard doctorate, he died on the eve of the famed speech, and was credited in it by King himself. Details and tickets here.
