What’s On this Week 11th February – 18th
The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me
After attending a performance of Larry Kramer’s play The Normal Heart, a young man’s life is changed forever thanks to the power of theatre.
This heart-warming, coming of age story follows the life of a young actor – his call to gay pride and activism in New York during the onset of HIV/AIDS in the 80s.
Broken up into a series of stories, Drake abstractly documents a gay man’s journey of self discovery.
From the late-night club crawl to the buff-bunny gyms, from the threat of anti-gay violence to the place where condemnation, compromises and closets are a thing of the past, The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me exposes the sexual, spiritual, and political yearnings at the heart of gay America shared by a whole generation of gay men and women.
Until February 26
New Wimbledon Theatre
Hamlet
A country under attack. A family falling apart. A mind in turmoil.
Step inside the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse and be transported to the ostentatious court of Elsinore.
Intimately lit and warmly welcoming, it’s the perfect palace.
But ‘something is rotten in the state of Denmark’.
Prince Hamlet is shocked that his mother, the Queen, has married his uncle so soon after the death of his father, the King. And when his father’s ghost reveals a dark secret, it’s clear what he ought to do: exact revenge.
Until April 9
The Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, The Globe
Bob Marley One Love Experience
The Bob Marley One Love Experience makes its global debut at London’s iconic Saatchi Gallery for a limited ten-week exhibition this February.
This unique experience will showcase unseen Marley photographs and memorabilia whilst immersing audiences on a journey through his lifestyle, passions, influences, and enduring legacy.
Fans will venture through the exhibition, greeted by different elements of Bob Marley’s multi-faceted life.
The One Love Music Room will commemorate Bob Marley’s achievements through accolades and giant art installations.
Until April 18
Saatchi Gallery
Art Now: Danielle Dean
Visual artist Danielle Dean’s thought-provoking work explores the colonisation of the mind and body through media and cultural production.
Drawing on her research in the archives of the Ford Motor Company in Detroit and using footage shot by collaborators across the world, her new multi-channel video installation investigates the changing nature of labour through the labour-crowdsourcing marketplace, “Amazon Mechanical Turk” (AMT).
Until May 8
Tate Britain
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child
The first major retrospective of this legendary artist to focus exclusively on her work using fabrics and textiles.
Bourgeois’s fabric works mine the themes of identity and sexuality, trauma and memory, guilt and reparation that are central to her long and storied career.
Louise Bourgeois: The Woven Child sums up this wonderfully inventive and compelling final chapter in this extraordinary artist’s work.
Until May 15
Hayward Gallery
Jenny Eclair: Sixty! (FFS!)
Having hit 60 (but still a year younger than Madonna), comedian Jenny Eclair aka ‘The Face of Vagisan’ confronts a new decade of decrepitude.
Now that it takes 20 minutes of scrolling down to find her date of birth when she’s filling in forms online, should she celebrate or crawl into a hole?
What will her 60s hold for this 1960s babe, and is it a legal requirement to buy Nordic walking poles?
February 11
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Live at the Works with Phil Wang
Award-winning promoters Show And Tell bring another spectacular night of comedy to Woolwich Works.
Headliner Phil Wang is one of the fastest rising stars in comedy right now.
He’ll be joined by BBC3’s Uncle star Nick Helm and Frankie Boyle’s New World Order’s Sophie Duker.
Hosted by star of Mock The Week and Live at the Apollo Ivo Graham, plus more acts to be announced.
February 12
Woolwich Works
Telling Tales
The Globe’s family festival returns in 2022 for a packed programme of activities for February half term.
Families can uncover the magic of storytelling together in a Family Workshop or explore Shakespeare’s plays in one of the many fun Storytelling sessions bringing to life Shakespeare’s Winter’s Tale, Henry V and Romeo and Juliet.
Families can also enjoy a special Family Guided Tour or take part in a Sword Fighting or Elizabethan Dressing Demonstration.
February 13 to April 15
The Globe
Duckie
Duckie is a reimagining of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling with a message of tolerance and self acceptance at its core.
Set in an animal circus, we join Duckie on an adventure of self-discovery, asking questions of the ‘happy ever after’ in a celebration of difference.
Walking a little differently? Sounding a bit strange? Watch Duckie triumph by realising that these are their strengths.
February 15 to 19
Battersea Arts Centre
The Mikado
Desperate to get away? Take a trip to the topsy-turvy town of Titipu in the land of Pajan!
Find romance, chicanery and a legal conundrum under the capricious eye of the Mikado.
Nanki-Poo cannot marry Yum-Yum because she is betrothed to Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner, who cannot do his duty without executing himself. Yet when the Mikado insists upon an execution, somehow no-one loses his head.
A production by The Merry Opera Company directed by John Ramster with musical direction by Bradley Wood.
February 15 to 27
Chelsea Theatre