Comedy Film Music Theatre

Today in London: Friday 1 March 2013

By | Published on Friday 22 February 2013

Girls Aloud

Oh my hog, it’s Pig Day. And the 1st of March! So why not start the month off right with this banquet of choice cultural cuts we’ve picked from amid London’s swill of lesser events…

TODAY’S COMEDY CHOICES

Idiots Of Ants, Comedy Bunker, 1 Mar
Always a popular Fringe featurette, Idiots Of Ants shoot straight, pacy sketch pellets, leaving a large part of the show unscripted. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S FILM CHOICES

Between The Lines Festival, Rich Mix, 1-3 Mar
Rich Mix (in collaboration with DocHouse and the Frontline Club screens a new non-fiction film festival in miniature, basing its programme on “today’s new media landscape”. Brian Knappenberger’s digital fairytale We are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists’, Eugene Jarecki’s brutal portrait of America’s drugs war ‘The House I Live In’, and Alex Gibney’s just-released expose on sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, ‘ Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God’ will all be shown and gone-over in talks such as ‘Selling Out? Corporate and Political Control of Documentary and Journalism’. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S MUSIC CHOICES

Girls Aloud, The O2, 1-3 Mar (pictured)
As presented by pricy jewellers Pandora, Girls Aloud’s glittering tenth anniversary ‘The Hits’ circuit tonight alights on the O2 Arena for the first in a trio of shows. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S THEATRE CHOICES

Hello/Goodbye, Hampstead Theatre, 1 -30 Mar
The creator of various radio dramas and vibrant ITV rom-com ‘Married, Single, Other’, writer Peter Souter bases his first ever stage script on the following only-in-movies moving-in scenario: Juliet, a “young, smart and sassy” career girl with big dreams, is making a fresh start in a new flat. But wait, a “strange guy” (who’s “actually rather sexy”) is also moving in – and he won’t leave. Realism, this isn’t. Details and tickets here.

The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time, Apollo Shaftesbury, 1 Mar – 31 Aug
Boyish 28 year-old Luke Treadaway is Christopher – an autistic teen trying to make sense of life, death and everything – in this West End upgrade of Simon Stephens’ acclaimed play, as was first staged by the National Theatre last year. Details and tickets here.



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