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Three To See on 7 Mar: Festival Of The Spoken Word – You Can’t Polish A Nerd, The Dog Beneath The Skin, Br’er Cotton

By | Published on Wednesday 28 February 2018

And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…

Festival Of The Spoken Nerd – You Can’t Polish A Nerd | Soho Theatre | 7-16 Mar
Brilliant TW favourites of long-standing Festival Of The Spoken Nerd – aka Steve Mould, Helen Arney, and Matt Parker – head to Soho Theatre for what I guarantee will be a run of shows featuring quality scientific entertainment. You’ve no doubt heard of their brilliance, maybe even seen their brilliance, and if not, I feel pretty sure that this sentence will convince you of their brilliance, given how many times I’ve used the word brilliance in it. Details here.

The Dog Beneath The Skin | Jermyn Street Theatre | 7-31 Mar
“The sleepy village of Pressan Ambo has a secret. Ten years ago, Francis Crewe disappeared. Every year, a man is chosen by lot to go searching for Francis but none have ever come home. This year, Alan Norman is chosen and accompanied by a surprisingly intelligent dog; he sets out on a journey through 1930’s pre-war Europe. A nationalist threat however is on the rise and when Alan returns home to Pressan Ambo, he finds it a very different place to how he left it.” A revival of a “rediscovered classic” by WH Auden and Christopher Isherwood that sounds really rather interesting. See this page here for more.

Br’er Cotton | Theatre503 | 7-31 Mar (pictured)
By contrast, something far more modern, dealing with a very contemporary theme. This  Theatre503 Playwriting Award short-listed play, set in the US, tells a story of a 14 year old boy, Ruffrino, who is struggling to find his place in a world where the random, unprovoked killing of young black men is epidemic. Losing touch with the real world and becoming engrossed in a life online, he becomes engaged in an uncompromising fight – to ensure that Black Lives Matter. See the venue website here for info.



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