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Art & Events Circus Dance & Physical Opera Theatre
Tuesday 16 September 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Tuesday 9 September 2014
And the LDN-based events the ThisWeek team is tipping today are…
ART: Yayoi Kusama – Pumpkins | Victoria Miro | 16 Sep – 19 Dec
The Victoria Miro shows a timely (given it’s almost nearly Halloween) body of pumpkin-based paintings, large-scale mosaics and big old bronze castings by Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama; each one dedicated, with great love, to the natural world’s knobbliest orange gourd. Bang into the pumpkin as a motif since as early as 1948, Kusama is known to use the plant as a means of selfportraiture, attracted to its “charming and winsome form”, “generous unpretentiousness” and “solid spiritual base”. Details and tickets here.
CIRCUS/DANCE: 7 Fingers – Séquence 8 | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 16 Sep – 4 Oct
Québec-based circus clique 7 Fingers flex their way into this sequence designed for eight performers, who’ll be twinning lithe acrobatics with light-hearted dance bits, doing so against bold lighting and an original soundtrack. Details and tickets here.
OPERA: Third World Bunfight – Macbeth | The Barbican | 16-20 Sep (pictured)
Radical playwright Brett Bailey adapts Verdi’s ‘Macbeth’, moving the base threads of the plot over to modern-day Congo, and bringing in a South African cast to voice a rearrangement of the original opera. In his and Third World Bunfight’s version of events, a group of refugees find an old trunk full of sheet music and gramophone recordings of Verdi’s score, and are inspired to tell their own story; that of a warlord, his power-thirsty wife, and Congo’s conflict-ravaged landscape. Details and tickets here.