The exhibition The First Diva – The Courtesan and the Recording Industry will run throughout April in our cafe space to accompany the production of Gauhar Jaan – The Datia Incident.
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Gauhar Jaan: The Datia Incident is a multilingual play fused with live music and dance that celebrates the early 20th century musical revolution, and the remarkable story of a talented musician who only ever craved control over her own fate.
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Award-winning company Shadwell Opera present their sell-out production of Janacek’s dramatic song cycle, The Diary of One Who Vanished, as well as a newly commissioned piece by Edward Nesbit.
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Join us for coffee, the papers and some Sunday relaxation. Battersea Jazz Collective play in our Café area, performing classic standards and original tunes with their own distinctive sound.
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Lucy Goddard and Siwan Rhys present a recital for voice and piano in celebration of women writers
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Omnibus Theatre transforms into a ‘living’ library. Be taken on a sensory journey around the building and explore powerful stories of comfort, discovery, self-learning and escape, translated from memories of local readers who were asked about what they valued about reading and why.
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Looking to find someone to publish your fiction or non-fiction writing? Leading industry experts Philip Gwyn Jones, editor-at-large at Scribe UK, and agent Lucy Luck share all the do’s and don’ts of publication and open up the writing world.
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Critically acclaimed award-winning poet and presenter of Poetry Extra on BBC Radio 4 Extra Daljit Nagra and poet, writer, performer, theatre maker and poet Cecilia Knapp talk together about writing and loving poetry, reading and performing.
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BBC arts and Guardian journalist and author Mark Lawson and London-based crime writer Vaseem Khan, author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency explore – forensically – motives, locations and moralities… in the crime they write.
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Bestselling author Natasha Cooper talks to Dame Margaret Drabble about her writing life and the relevant and topical themes and issues of her latest work The Dark Flood Rises.
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Simon Berthon, BAFTA-winner and Clapham-based author of Warlords and Allies at War, discusses the defence of the realm before and after World War II with award-winning author and journalist Henry Hemming and acclaimed war biographer Clare Mulley.
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Deborah Moggach OBE takes us inside her extensive and highly successful writing career, spanning Tulip Fever and many other novels, her latest being Something To Hide.
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This is the story of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, portrayed in words and music from their letters and poems, and from Ron Grainer’s musical ‘Robert and Elizabeth’, with the help of John David.
To be followed by a Q&A led by Dr Simon Avery.
Born to affluence in the middle of the nineteenth century, Francis has always used his love of books as a means of insulating himself from real life. But books can’t protect him when a family accident brings him face to face with reality. Tim Hardy plays Francis Kenworthy, directed by Alison Skilbeck.
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When tabloid magazines conjure celebrity pregnancies out of post-dinner bloats, when the leader of the free world might grab your pussy at any moment, every woman’s reproductive status seems to be public property.
This funny and poignant show from writer/performer/broadcaster Nina Davis explores our modern obsession with other people’s procreation.
How I became a woman. A period piece. With songs.
Combining comedy, storytelling and original songs, writer Katie Arnstein wants to talk about why feminism is discovered so much later than misogyny and how we might change that.
An imaginative retelling of the book by Nicola Davies and Cathy Fisher. Perfect is a remarkable story of anticipation and disappointment, acceptance and love, and the power of nature in all our lives.
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This one-woman show sets out to disprove that “there are no good parts in Shakespeare for older women.” The Power Behind The Crone opened the 2016 RADA Festival and played in Edinburgh Fringe Assembly Rooms 2017.
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Music and storytelling inspired by the women of medieval Spain. The Telling are five musicians and an actress who come together to highlight the rich cultural heritage of the Spanish peninsula.
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In December 2015, an elderly man was found dead on Saddleworth Moor. Train tickets in his pockets showed he’d travelled 200 miles, apparently just to die.
Written and performed by Max Dickins, this powerful drama looks at how people come to disappear and the impact on those they leave behind.
Join performance storyteller Ben Haggarty at his most alarming, as he presents three remixed, extended and explicit Greek myths. This is world-class storytelling: dark, magical and provocative.
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Dynamic and talented theatre makers perform new work in front of an audience, often for the very first time. Engine Room puts you at the heart of the creative process – these artists want to hear what you think. Be part of the conversation.
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Twenty-one miles (as the gull flies) to France. So near yet so far. Flashback to a golden age of bathing when Channel fever gripped the nation. Expect one woman, witty physical theatre and a gloriously absurd tribute to The Channel.
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UK based opera company XOGA presents an evening of opera, song and dance based on Shakespearean couples – Ophelia and Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet… turbulent love stories of jealousy, disappointment, vanity, ambition, chance, fate and madness that with death come to an end.
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Can you help solve the problem of the king’s dirty feet? Come and explore how shoes are represented in fairytales and myths around the world.
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Following the sell-out success of Debut’s ‘Shakespearean Summers’ at the Shoreditch Treehouse, this popular concert transfers for one night only to Omnibus Theatre. Featuring soprano Lizzie Holmes and special guests.
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A play about the dangers of the Internet for 3-8 year olds, based on the best-selling picture book by Stuart Spendlow. Educational and fun-filled.
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Come for the chat, the music, the atmosphere. Leave re-charged for the week.
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Alice has not formed the correct bond with her baby. That’s what her doctor and husband say. Isolated from her child and banished to the country for ‘rest’, Alice falls further down the rabbit hole of her own mind.
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Led by Artistic Director and trumpeter Mark Armstrong, the NYJO quintet is a bijou showcase for some of the hottest up-and-coming musicians the industry, stepping out of NYJO’s big-band setting for one night only.
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Inspired by Brahms’ Ophelia Lieder, Emma and Keval will go on a journey from innocence to experience with female characters in song. Their programme will also include Schumann’s Frauen- Liebe und Leben and Rossini’s Giovanna D’Arco.
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Discover the creative process of liberating a story and bringing it back to ‘a life on the wind’.
This interactive workshop will give you the confidence to develop your own unique version of a fairytale, myth or legend through a series of creative, thoughtful and fun practical tasks.
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UK based opera company XOGA presents an evening of opera, song and dance based on Shakespearean couples – Ophelia and Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet… turbulent love stories of jealousy, disappointment, vanity, ambition, chance, fate and madness that with death come to an end.
Find out more »Dynamic and talented theatre makers perform new work in front of an audience, often for the very first time. Engine Room puts you at the heart of the creative process – these artists want to hear what you think. Be part of the conversation.
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True stories told by you. Ordinary people tell their extraordinary stories. They’re poignant, funny, life-affirming, cathartic and true. Join us on the last Thursday of each month for this extraordinary…
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Elina Duni is a Swiss-Albanian singer. Having been signed to ECM Records since 2012, her hallmark combination of traditional Albanian folk songs and jazz has lead to worldwide critical acclaim. For this new project, she is joined by guitarist Rob Luft, acclaimed as one of the rising stars of London’s flourishing contemporary jazz scene.
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