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Three To See on 20 Apr: I Am Thomas – A brutal Comedy With Songs, Shakespeare In Shoreditch Festival, Mozart & Salieri

By TW Editorial | Published on Wednesday 13 April 2016

And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…

I Am Thomas – A brutal Comedy With Songs | Wilton’s Music Hall | 20-30 Apr (pictured)
This piece has a great pedigree – it’s a collaboration from award winning poet Simon Armitage, Told by an Idiot, National Theatre Scotland, and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh – and it’s had great reviews, too, so I think this is very much a safe bet. The show sheds light on the story of Thomas Aikenhead, the last person in Britain to be hanged for blasphemy, but it’s far from a straightforward narrative. See this page here to find out more.

Shakespeare In Shoreditch | various venues | 20-30 Apr
Remember yesterday, when I said that there are loads of Shakespeare related events taking place this year because of the anniversary of the playwright’s passing (yeah, thought I’d better not go for that whole ‘mortal coil’ thing again)? Well, here’s another, though to be completely accurate, this is a returning bardyfest, which had its first outing back in 2014 with the aim to “straddle the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth and the 400th anniversary of his death”. This instalment sees the staging of four new plays inspired by storms, Shoreditch and Shakey. Have a look here for more info.

Mozart & Salieri | Phoenix Artist Club | 20-23 Apr
Anyone for lunchtime opera? I think it’s a great time to digest it, and I reckon this will be a great, immersive production of Rimsky-Korsakov’s rarely performed ‘Mozart & Salieri’, which is based on Alexander Pushkin’s play of the same name, which charts the legend that Salieri offed Mozart because he was jealous. Get thee to this page here for all the info and to book.