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Today in London: Thursday 22 August 2013

By TW Editorial | Published on Saturday 17 August 2013

Since it’s basically Bank Holiday Weekend already, let’s start the ‘three-day-break’ party early via these tempting cultural treats…

TODAY’S FILM CHOICES

Film4 Frightfest, Empire Leicester Square, 22-26 Aug
It’s time to get behind thy cinema seat as Film 4 eases into the Bank Holiday weekend via a creaky, creepy screenings season featuring several high-profile international premieres, not least the first ever ‘undead’ film set in India, Zachary Quinto’s new flick ‘Banshee Chapter’, Christoph Behl’s Argentine end-of-days drama ‘The Decent’, and Navot Papushado’s violent vigilante thriller ‘Big Bad Wolves’. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S THEATRE CHOICES

The Man Who Planted Trees, Purcell Room at Southbank Centre, 22 Aug – 1 Sep (pictured)
Back at the SB after a smash-hit international trek, Richard Medrington, Rick Conte and artist Ailie Cohen’s beautifully vivid family fave relates its leafy-green tale (that of a shepherd and his dog’s dream to change a barren space into a verdant landscape teeming with life) to a new set of kids aged 7+. Details and tickets here.

The Nightvision Experiment, various locations, 22-26 Aug
Billing itself as a ‘new kind of digital theatre’, PlayThisNext’s Keith Allen-featuring ‘Nightvision Experiment’  is a series of five online performances that are screened in real time via Twitter and YouTube. Experienceable only by paying and logging on, the live narrative involves the viewer in a girl’s quest to find her AWOL boyfriend. Details and tickets here.