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Today in London: Saturday 24 August 2013

By | Published on Monday 19 August 2013

Bob Dylan

Ahoy, London. So, in case anyone isn’t clear, that’s Bob Dylan’s ‘art’ pasted above… worth a look, isn’t it? Yes, yes it is, as are these…

TODAY’S ART CHOICES

Bob Dylan: Face Value, National Portrait Gallery, 24 Aug – 5 Jan 2014 (pictured)
The NPG displays 12 new-ish pastel portraits by grizzled polymath Bob Dylan, characterising them as “an amalgamation of features the musician has collected from life, memory and his imagination and fashioned into people”. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S COMEDY CHOICES

Hilarious – Eddie Griffin & Tony Rock, O2 Academy Brixton, 24 Aug
Brixton Academy bags a brace of trans-Atlantic comic titans, boasting twice the hilarity c/o Chris Rock’s ‘Everybody Hates Chris’ co-star (and little brother) Tony (Rock) and American A-lister Eddie Griffin. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S THEATRE CHOICES

Aquatic, Cockpit Theatre, 23-24 Aug
China’s masked Theatre San Tuo Qi spin dance and traditional opera into the ancient fabric of ‘Aquatic’, the Western Chinese myth tracing a water spirit and his desire to leave for his next life, a reincarnation that depends on his finding a human replacement. Details and tickets here.

Blue Stockings, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, 24 Aug – 11 Oct
There’s always a certain prestige to the act of premiering a new script at Shakespeare’s (replica) amphitheatre itself, and Red Handed AD Jessica Swale’s ‘Blue Stockings’ is hardly an exception. Set in Cambridge University’s Girton College (England’s first to accept residential female students) in 1896, it hinges on four young women’s experiences with prejudice, men and politics at the height of the suffrage movement. Details and tickets here.



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