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Comedy Dance & Physical Opera Theatre
Wednesday 2 April 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Thursday 27 March 2014
TODAY IN LONDON, ThisWeek’s tipped events feature the English National Ballet, future stand-up stars The Awkward Silence, Birthday Girls and Ellis & Rose, and first-time opera director Joe-Hill Gibbins…
COMEDY: Next Best Thing present The Awkward Silence/John Henry Falle/Birthday Girls/Ellis & Rose, The Slaughtered Lamb, 2 Apr
Tonight’s hosts, ‘Barskit’ cases The Awkward Silence, take to the Slaughtered Lamb with one doozy of a guest-list, presenting the likes of sketchy Betamales character John Henry Falle, quirk-happy trio Birthday Girls, and blossoming stand-up duo Ellis & Rose. Details and tickets here.
DANCE: English National Ballet – Lest We Forget, Barbican, 2-12 Apr
A somewhat radical trinity of the most acclaimed dance-masters of the day, Akram Khan, Russell Maliphant and Liam Scarlett, create works for the ENB company inspired by the centenary of the Great War. Details and tickets here.
OPERA: Powder Her Face, Ambika P3, 2-19 Apr
Theatre’s enfant terrible Joe-Hill Gibbins flits from directing his modish NT adaptation of ‘Edward II’ to this, his first opera, which finds him moving the English National Opera company to this comparably mini space in Marleybone. Thomas Ades’ breakthrough composition traces the glam rise and sleazy fall of Margaret Duchess of Argyll, aka the ‘Dirty Duchess’, a notorious divorcee of the 1960s, renowned for her voracious appetite for suitors. Details and tickets here.