What’s On this Week: 25th February – 4th March
Bob Marley One Love Experience
The Bob Marley One Love Experience makes its global debut at the Saatchi Gallery for a 10-week exhibition.
This unique experience will showcase unseen Marley photographs and memorabilia while 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
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
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
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
Rain and Zoe Save the World
Rain and Zoe Save the World tells the story of two teenage climate activists from Washington State who embark on an impulsive motorcycle journey to join a group of oil protesters on the East Coast.
On the way, Rain and Zoe discover that the true danger in this world… might just be growing up.
The show takes you on a journey that explores the ethics of standing up for what you believe whatever the cost.
Until March 12
Jermyn Street Theatre
The Cunning Little Vixen
The Cunning Little Vixen tells the tale of a clever vixen named Sharp Ears. Captured by a local Forester when she is young, she later manages to escape his clutches, but he is forever haunted by her memory.
Exploring man’s relationship with nature, the opera moves through the contrasting worlds of the Vixen and the Forester, showing how one chance meeting can forever change the lives of both.
Until March 1
English National Opera, London Coliseum
Waitress
Meet Jenna, a waitress and expert pie-maker who dreams of some happiness in her life. When a hot new doctor arrives in town, life gets complicated.
With the support of her workmates Becky and Dawn, Jenna overcomes the challenges she faces and finds that laughter, love and friendship can provide the perfect recipe for happiness.
Until February 26
Churchill Theatre
Small Island
The acclaimed, five-star production of Andrea Levy’s prize-winning novel returns.
Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.
Following their lives through the Second World War until the arrival of HMT Empire Windrush at Tilbury, hopes for the future soon meet the stubborn reality of post-war Britain.
National Theatre
February 24 to April 30
Martha Skye Murphy
The chilling Martha Skye Murphy premieres Postcards Home, her opera of once-lost field recordings.
Postcards Home harnesses a series of live field recordings, using the voice to usurp the in-built settings of analogue synths.
The tracks featured were lost and could only be manually retrieved from the small device they were made on.
Premiering an experimental opera and collaborating on an exhibition for Purcell Sessions, Martha Skye Murphy builds on the disquieting ballads which have graced her selection of singles and EPs.
February 26
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall
Shock of the Form
Gerald Moore Gallery presents Shock of the Form, an exhibition of photography, film and ice sculptures bringing together two artists, photographer Peer Lindgreen and ice sculptor Duncan Hamilton.
The exhibition features 28 photographs by Lindgreen of Hamilton’s work with ice, alongside a giant crystal ice sculpture which takes centre stage in the gallery.
Working collaboratively, the photos took Lindgreen and Hamilton over four years to produce, during which time they were testing the limits of ice with different processes.
March 3 to 19
Gerald Moore Gallery
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