Arts & Culture (London)
Cr: Young Vic
Cr: TJ Boulting
Cr: Birmingham Royal Ballet
Cr: Hackney Town Hall
Cr: Pilar Corrias
untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play
Witness Kimber Lee’s hysterically witty satire, ‘untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play,’ which exposes deep-rooted cycles of Asian stereotypes. The play follows Kim (Oliver Award-nominee Mei Mac), who grapples with centuries of gory narratives to dictate her own story.
Highlights
Directed by Roy Alexander Weise, the satire is now showing at the Young Vic throughout the autumn season; this follows its successful debut in Manchester last summer.
Daisy Collingridge: Splanchnic
See your negative thoughts about your body come to life at the first solo exhibition by British artist Daisy Collingridge at TJ Boulting. Exploring the theme of the human body, Collingridge’s creations are unsettling, terrifyingly relatable, and come in many shades of pink.
Highlights
The exhibition displays a range of soft and swollen-looking sculptures - think drooping breasts dangling off the wall, multi-layer stomach folds, and an enormous head wrapped in varicose veins.
Black Sabbath: The Ballet
How many times have you seen ballet dancers dressed in tutus air guitaring on stage? Not many, we assume. Thanks to Birmingham Royal Ballet’s director Carlos Acosta, we get to see the unlikely combo of thrilling ballet performances and orchestrations of Black Sabbath’s Heavy Metal songs.
Highlights
Led by acclaimed choreographer Pontus Lidberg, composer Chris Austin (the White Stripes music for Wayne McGregor’s Chroma), and award-winning writer Richard Thomas (Jerry Springer, The Opera), this unique collaboration promises you an extraordinary performance to remember.
Orwell’s 1984
There’s no better time to see George Orwell’s 1984 live production than now, as we live in the era where our every move is being recorded. Directed by Richard Hahlo and Jem Wall from Hydrocracker Theatre, a company specialising in immersive experiences, you will witness Orwell’s dystopian classic in a completely new way.
Highlights
Known for turning public spaces into a stage, Pure Expression Theatre is tapping Hackney Town Hall, a perfect venue for recreating the Ministry of Truth, for this new, thrilling, immersive production.
Tripping Over My Joy
Critically acclaimed American painter Christina Quarles returns for her fourth exhibition at Mayfair’s Pilar Corrias. Focusing on identity and representation, her new collection of abstract paintings sees twisting and intertwining bodies, layers, psychedelic patterns, and the explosion of colour palettes.
Highlights
Quarles’ latest collection features seven new paintings on canvas and nine pieces on paper. The new limited scale challenges and allows the artist to refine her usual artistic language revered in her larger works, resulting in a more intense and denser visual experience.