YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Art & Events Comedy Theatre
Monday 9 June 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Tuesday 3 June 2014
And the LDN-based events the ThisWeek team is tipping today are….
ART: Summer Exhibition 2014 | Royal Academy Of Arts | 9 Jun – 17 Aug
So this is it, the big one. The RAA’s massive mid-year showcase of art (and in fact the world’s largest and most accessible to anyone at all) in which creatives from all stratas of the art world are can apply display work, which is then chosen for the final exhibition by leaders in the field. Whilst this year’s centrepiece is a black-and-white space curated by Cornelia Parker, that’s the mere tip of the aesthetic iceberg. Details and tickets here.
COMEDY: Alex Horne – Monsieur Butterfly | BAC | 9-10 Jun
Alex Horne, a man doomed for stardom, shows up to shop his new Edinburgh Fringe show-to-be, modelling himself on Puccini’s ill-destined heroine. ‘Stupidly ambitious, logistically problematic, and potentially disastrous’ (boasts its poster), ‘Monsieur Butterfly’ finds Horne flapping his wings, and causing all kinds of chaos. Details and tickets here.
THEATRE: Fourth Monkey’s Greek Season | Trinity Buoy Wharf | 9-21 Jun (pictured)
Following in the bow waves of Fourth Monkey’s Kafka-inspired ‘Project Colony’ (which we interviewed them on last year), the theatre co’s latest exploit consists of a pair of ancient plays by Greek master Euripides. Playing in rep on alternate nights, the graphic ‘Lysistrata’ finds its female characters trying to end a war by denying their men sex, and Athenian tragedy ‘Rhesus’, which follows the night Odysseus and Diomedes‘ steal into the Trojan camp. Details and tickets here.
