YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Children's Shows Circus Comedy Spoken Word ThisWeek In London
Three To See on 29 Oct: Bedtime Stories, Sara Pascoe’s The Salon – Scratch, Poetry Can F*ck Off
By TW Editorial | Published on Thursday 22 October 2015
And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…
Bedtime Stories | The Albany | 29-30 Oct
This is a lovely show for families, courtesy of brilliant circus company Upswing, set in a child’s bedroom and involving a journey to the moon, across seas and mountains and back again. If you want to know a lot more about the show, you can read the Q&A we did with creator Vicki Amedume earlier this year and you can get your tickets here.
Sara Pascoe’s The Salon: Scratch | Battersea Arts Centre | 29-31 Oct (pictured)
That funny and lovely Sarah Pascoe, as seen all over your TV, heads to Battersea Arts Centre to host this literary salon, as part of the venue’s scratch programme, ahead of monthly Salon nights downstairs at The Book Club from November. Presumably in the grand tradition of the salons of the French literary and philosophical movements of the 17th and 18th Centuries, and therefore geared towards the exchange of ideas. See all the details here.
Poetry Can F*ck Off | The Cockpit | 29-31 Oct
I suspect this is one of those shows I can probably describe as ‘unmissable’, even though I haven’t seen it yet. Believe me, I really, really want to, not least because one of my team saw it in Edinburgh in the summer and was utterly, completely, totally blown away, calling it “electrifying and erudite, passionate and political”. Written by Heathcote Williams, this epic poem features the verse, lyrics and music of the likes of Maya Angelou, Jim Morrison, Billie Holiday, Sophie Scholl, Emily Dickinson, Martin Luther King, William Blake, Arundhati Roy, Victor Jara, Gil Scott-Heron and Lupe Fiasco. See the venue website here for more info.
