YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEK IN CULTURE
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Theatre ThisWeek In London
Three To See on 4 May: Give Me Your Love, Brimstone and Treacle, The Pulverised
By TW Editorial | Published on Thursday 27 April 2017
And today’s ThisWeek-tipped, LDN-based events are…
Give Me Your Love | The Albany | 4-5 May
“Ex-soldier Zach has withdrawn into a cardboard box in a kitchen in West Wales. His wife whispers, kindly, that it’s safe to come out. But is it a trap? His friend arrives offering recovery – in the form of a capsule – and parachutes them into their recently fractured pasts.” The ever excellent Ridiculusmus bring their current show – which is about post traumatic stress and the effects of MDMA – back to London. If you didn’t see it last year, here’s your chance. Click this link here to book.
Brimstone And Treacle | Hope Theatre | 2-20 May (pictured)
A fortieth anniversary revival of Dennis Potter’s dark, funny and controversial play ‘Brimstone and Treacle’, which was originally written for the BBC as one of their Plays For Today in 1976, but then banned because of its shocking nature. Its portrayal of the prejudice and fear latent in the collective mind of ‘middle England’ is just as relevant as ever, and it’s directed by the award winning Matthew Parker. See the venue website here for details.
The Pulverised | Arcola Theatre | 2-27 May
And here’s another show with a very relevant theme, this time the creep of globalisation, and its effects on our lives. This show, which won the prestigious Grand Prix de la Littérature following its premiere at the National Theatre of Strasbourg, comes to the UK as a new translation, and tells the stories of four seemingly unconnected people – a quality assurance officer from France, a call centre manager from Senegal, a factory worker from China, and an engineer from Romania – who of course all work for the same concern. Head this way for info.
