Comedy Dance & Physical Theatre

Wednesday 2 July 2014 in London

By | Published on Thursday 26 June 2014

Intimate Apparel

And the LDN-based events the ThisWeek team is tipping today are….

DANCE: New English Ballet Theatre – Tryst | Sadler’s Wells Theatre | 2-5 Jul
The New English Ballet Theatre present ‘Tryst’, a mixed bill of new pieces inspired by the themes of ‘love, devotion, jealousy and betrayal’. Moving off with Royal Ballet choreographer Valentino Zucchetti’s ‘Orbital Motion’, which features a score by Philip Glass, the programme also covers Daniela Cardim Fonteyne and Kristen McNally’s ‘Tangents’; and a moving new commission by Andrew McNicol based on Tolstoy’s tragic ‘Kreutzer Sonata’. Details and tickets here.

THEATRE/COMEDY: Stuart Bowden – She Was Probably Not A Robot | Soho Theatre | 2-5 Jul
Dr Brown’s go-to comic comrade, “amicable” and 5/5-rated showman Stuart Bowden, is back on a solo basis with this lo-fi prototype, the DIY sci fi chronicle of a dying world and a cosmic visitor told with tinfoil and looped noises. Details and tickets here.

THEATRE: Intimate Apparel | Park Theatre | 2-27 Jul (pictured)
American playwright Lynn Nottage’s massively acclaimed ‘Intimate Apparel’, in which an ageing black seamstress who, after a lifetime saving her earnings from sewing lingerie to open a beauty shop, begins receiving letters from a lonely Caribbean man. Details and tickets here.



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