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The League Of Gentlemen
A bizarre bandwagon of comedy characters from the award-winning team.
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Tim Hawkinson
This Hirshhorn show in the museum’s ‘Directions’ series is the biggest East Coast display artist Tim Hawkinson has ever had. The exhibition will be an overview of his pieces, which range from distended human figures to minimal drawings all the way to junkyard assemblages of an otherworldly beauty. The museums striking third-floor ‘Directions’ space should provide an ideal setting for patrons to discover an artist and scavenger with a West Coast aesthetic ingrained in his creations.
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Debunking Love
The New Conservatory Theatre Center continues its Pride Season with the world première of a new comedy by Prince Gomolvilas. The play tells the story of a young Asian American novelist suffering from an intense case of writers’ block and his zany romantic entanglements. Mixing sex and romance with rice queens and snow queens (Asian Americans and White Americans), Gomolvilas’ play is about looking for love in all the wrong races.
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Singin’ in the Rain
One of the most celebrated and beloved films of all time, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’, has now been faithfully adapted for the stage. Transforming Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds’ timeless combination into a live theatrical performance, the screenplay writers Betty Comden and Adolph Green knew they would be taking a risky step. But with technical accomplishments like the real rain and the unique opportunity of stage to actively engage the audience, ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ maintains its classic romanticism and spunk. The show features everything you could possible ask for – a steaming love triangle, fabulous voices and surprise happy ending. A great performance and the perfect gift, book at London Theatre Breaks.
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Après l’Apartheid
If these three South African photographers have anything in common, it’s their use of photography as a painterly medium and rejection of engaged socio-realist themes for a form of escapism. Vivian Van Boech’s colourful, tongue-in-cheek scenes are full of references to art history and mythology using animals to create miniature worlds that veer between the fantastical and apocalyptic. Jennifer Lund’s colourscapes with their references to the elements take the image towards abstraction while Tracy Gander plays with light in South African landscapes taken from a moving car.
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Autumn Leaves
As the leaves on the autumn trees change colour, swarms of photographers descend on Tokyo’s parks and gardens to catch the spectacular display afforded by maple and ginko trees. One of the most popular spots for autumn leaf viewing or ‘koyo’ is Koishikawa Korakuen, Tokyo’s oldest traditional garden (the remains of a larger garden founded in 1629).
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Mad Mex
Here’s your chance to cringe to such cult classics as ‘Santo vs. Los Vampiro’, ‘Blue Demon vs. El Poder Satanico’ and ‘Ladron de Cadaveres’, during a week’s worth of laughably sick Mexican horror and El Santo wrestling films, the camp cream of the underrated B-movie crop.
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Parcours chanté
The genteel environs of Le Botanique play host to a celebration of Francophone culture for three weeks in March. The bill, which features 30 different acts, caters for very eclectic tastes. Highlights include the sparse folk-rock of Senegalese protest singer El Hadj N’Diaye, the blues of Boubakar Traoré from Mali, the techno of French group Bosco and the electro-Arabic marriage arranged by Tunisian chanteuse Amina. Indigenous Belgian talent is also well-represented with Daniel Hélin, William Dunker, Marc Morgan and Vive La Fête.
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Park Café
Surrounded by the city’s highest concentration of clubs, this hilly park with enviable views of Prague features a once-forlorn beer garden that has lately become a Zizkov district hot spot. Bands like the retro rockabilly Crazy Wheels periodically take over the stage here, while the crowds down top-notch brews and take in the all-too rare green space, at least in this part of the city that is.
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