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Art & Events Comedy Musicals Theatre
Thursday 9 October 2014 in London
By TW Editorial | Published on Thursday 2 October 2014
And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…
ART: Alibis – Sigmar Polke 1963-2010 | Tate Modern | 9 Oct – 8 Feb 2014
The Tate Modern hosts this lifetime review of ‘insatiably experimental’ late German art rebel Sigmar Polke, who in his five decade career defied classification; dipping into painting, drawing, photography, film and sculpture, and also working with things like notebooks, slide projections, photocopies and many a ‘weird’ material. Like snail juice, to name one. The show’s title ‘Alibis’ is a nod to Polke’s scorn and hatred of the Nazi party, and to all those who relied and still rely on the alibi ‘I didn’t see anything’ as a way to shirk responsibility for the war crimes and atrocities of WW2. Details and tickets here.
COMEDY: Doc Brown – The Weird Way Round | The Forum | 9 Oct (pictured)
Doc ‘Ben Smith’ Brown, seriously smart comic, rapper, actor, cultural pundit and kid-brother-to-Zadie-Smith ponders ‘life, love and lyricism’ in his new show ‘The Weird Way Round’. Details and tickets here.
MUSICAL: Made In Dagenham | Adelphi Theatre | 9 Oct – 28 Mar 2015
Apple-cheeked starlet Gemma Arterton, off of films, here tries a bit of real-time acting (and singing, and dancing) as the fearless Rita, who leads the Essex girls – nay, ladies – of the Dagenham Ford car-making plant in a game-changing 1968 pay-strike. Based on the zippy 2010 film by Nigel Cole, which itself was based on real events that happened in real people’s real lives, ‘Made In Dag’ has a very credible creative team behind it, not least ‘One Man, Two Guvnors’ script-writer Richard Bean, BAFTA and Grammy-winning composer David Arnold, Olivier-winning lyricist Richard Thomas (who also did ‘Anna Nicole’, FYI) and, to cap it off real nicely, acclaimed Almeida Theatre AD Rupert Goold. Details and tickets here.
