10 H&H Series, Thursday July 31, 2014 event listings

Theatre those who died. 7.30pm, Monday, August 4. The Duchess of Malfi. New Diorama McCrory magnetic in an electrifying production Theatre, 15-16 Triton Street, Regent’s Lunchtime concert. Hampstead Parish Place, London, NW1. The palaces of Italy Church, Church Row NW3 6UU. are choked with corruption in Webster’s Featuring Caryl Robertson, piano. 1pm, vicious tragedy of madness, love and Free. Wednesday, August 5. politics. As the widowed Duchess of Free wildlife Activities in Hampstead Malfi searches for a new husband her Heath. eye falls fatally on her servant Antonio. Tuesday, August 5 Determined to pursue her desires at any Green and Slimy Things. Pond dipping, cost she marries in secret believing that fun art activities and learn about wildlife. her fiercely proud family will, in time, 12-4pm, Secret Garden, Parliament Hill, understand. £12.50 / £10.50 (conc), NW5. For more information call: 020 Tuesday, August 5-Saturday, August 23. 7482 7073. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ Tour of Duty. Upstairs at the Gatehouse, hampsteadheath Highgate Village N6. Part of The Camden Wild Play Day. Play outdoors and be Fringe Festival 2014. He is Angelina’s ready to get muddy and wet! 12-4pm, father; an ex-soldier; a man of honour; next to the playground, Golders Hill Park, Dad. He’s the man who raised her on NW11 7QP. For more information call: his own from childhood to womanhood. 020 7482 7073. www.cityoflondon.gov. He has done his duty: he has done uk/hampsteadheath his best, but has he done enough? In Wednesday, August 6 everyone’s story there is a time to stay Rookie Rangers: explore the Heath, and a time to let go. There comes a learn about wildlife and play outdoors, time when whichever we do, we can but for 8-12 year olds. 10am-4pm, hope that we have made the right choice Hampstead Heath Education Centre, and done our duty. Tour of Duty is a NW5. Booking essential. For more simple yet compelling story of love and information and to book your space call: sacrifice that will stay with you long after 020 7482 7073. www.cityoflondon.gov. the curtain has come down. 7.30pm, uk/hampsteadheath 9.15pm, Thursday, July 31. 9.15pm, Thursday, August 7 Friday, August 1. Fur and Feathers Too at the Zoo. Fun art activities and learn about our Swimming Pools, Psychos, Spouses. zoo animals. 12-4pm, next to animal Pentameters Theatre, 28 Heath Street, Helen McCrory as Medea enclosures, Golders Hill Park, NW11 Hampstead, NW3. Three 25-minute one- 7QP. For more information call: 020 man shows (with an interval) by Craig MEDEA by conflict, shattered by betrayal and swooning, and transforming 7482 7073. www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/ Crosbie. Tues-Sat at 8pm, Sun at 5pm. National Theatre and left dangerously isolated, her her ‘‘woman’s weakness’’ into hampsteadheath £12 (concs £10). Until Sunday, August 3. identity ripped from her. The strong, strength, most chillingly when La Grande Illusion – Film Showing. An Evening with comedian Noel Fielding. empathetic Chorus (with Jane coaxing her children to deliver death t’s an ‘‘unthinkable’’ crime, yet all Primrose Hill Community library, Jacksons Lane, 269a Archway Road, Wymark a standout) urges Medea to her enemy. Sapani’s Jason is too fathomable in Carrie Cracknell’s Sharples Hall Street, London NW1, to Highgate, N6. Expect a magical mix away from grave action even as they stubborn and unfeeling, then quietly mark the First World War anniversary. of Noel’s unique brand of stand-up Ielectrifying production. Her modern draw vicarious satisfaction from it, moving when his self-assurance setting for Euripides’ masterpiece is Widely considered as one of the great comedy, live animation, music and some and our similar complicity makes the is demolished. Dominic Rowan’s films of all time, this First World War unobtrusive, allowing the discomfort of his best-known TV characters, such bloody outcome deeply unsettling. credulous Aegeus is effective, but classic is set mostly in a German POW as The Moon and Fantasy Man. There that comes from viewing horror in Magnetic McCrory gives a Nurse (Michaela Coel) lacks gravity camp, where two very different French will also be support from The Mighty a familiar setting to creep upon us performance of devastating power, in her framing speeches. The officers plot to escape: the working- Boosh’s Mike Fielding and Tom Meeten. during a riveting 90 minutes. believably cycling through Medea’s accessible drama gains a mystical class officer Maréchal (Jean Gabin, the Thursday, August 14-Saturday, August Assisted by Ben Power’s lucid, jarring emotions. She begins a darkly quality through Goldfrapp’s music, French Spencer Tracy) and the upper- 23. resonant adaptation, Cracknell builds sarcastic shell, but as grief fuels with its insistent pulse, throbbing class de Boieldieu (Pierre Fresnay). This a fascinating mental framework Exhibitions her, she savours the deadly logic strings, operatic cries and fugue- provides the story tension, but Renoir’s for Medea (Helen McCrory), who that leads her to retake control at like climax. Lucy Guerin’s figurative is primary concern is with the way ART – Camden artists show drawings embraced exile and murder for her people treat each other, and especially a terrible cost, primal vengeance choreography is intriguing, but pulls and paintings at the Open Open 2014 beloved Jason (Danny Sapani), only with how class and nationality inform paired with heartrending anguish. focus. It’s an unnecessary addition to exhibition in The Gallery, Swiss Cottage to be abandoned for another woman. human relations. Most compelling of all McCrory expertly employs such a shrewd reading, with a villain Library. Running July 26-September 6. The terrible inevitability stems the film’s characters is the aristocratic Medea’s feminine weapons, who is all the more harrowing for her Fellowship and Sacrifice – Hampstead not from the fates, but from the German camp commander von extracting mercy from Kreon (Martin palpable humanity. Until September Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim), who and the First World War. Burgh House, psyche of someone brutalised Marianka Swain New End Square, Hampstead, NW3. Turner) with weeping, trembling 4. cannot help but strike up a friendship Marking the centenary of the conflict, with de Boieldieu, a kindred spirit this exhibition looks at the effects of Until Thursday, July 31. 94-96 North End Road, Golders Green, 7.30pm, Saturday, August 2, 6pm, from the doomed nobility. Starring the war on Hampstead and the Heath. Rembrandt Etchings. Sylvester Fine Art, NW11. ljcc.org.uk, 020 8457 5000. Sunday, August 3. Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay, Erich von It examines the work of official war 64 Belsize Lane, NW3. The etchings Including movie madness, team building, Guided Walk On Hampstead Heath. Stroheim, Director Jean Renoir, France artists from the area and soldiers from were printed from the original copper comedy, chocolate factory and adventure Meet at 2.30pm by the cattle trough 1937, 102 minutes, With subtitles. Doors Hampstead who fought at the Front plates. Wednesday to Saturday, 11am- days. Sessions for eight to 10-year-olds and flower stall, Spaniard’s Road, near open 7.30pm, Introduction 7.45pm, and the important role played by local 6pm, Sunday, noon-5pm. and 11 to 14-year-olds. 10am-3.30pm. the Spaniard’s Inn, NW3 7JJ. Sandy Film 8pm, £8 inc. glass of wine or soft Monday, July 28-Friday, August 1. military hospitals and residents. Features Max Weber: An American Cubist in Heath and the upper catchment of the drink. Tickets on sale at the Library, two new acquisitions – the original copy Paris and New York 1905-1915. Ben The Misty Moon Film Society Presents... Highgate Ponds with update on the Sharpleshall Street, NW1 8YL (on of Blast, War Number 1915 by Wyndham Uri Gallery & Museum, 108a Boundary An Audience with Robin Askwith. City of London’s dams project. Led Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Lewis and an oil painting of Richard Road, off Abbey Road, St John’s Wood, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, Highgate by Lynda Cook, member of the Heath Saturdays) or on the door. Tuesday, Carline by Nancy Carline. Until December NW8. The first major UK museum show Village N6. Part of The Camden Fringe & Hampstead Society, Heath Sub- August 5. 14. of Weber’s work and the first to examine Festival 2014. A raucous evening Committee. All welcome. £3 per head. Talk – Reflections on a visit to Photographic Competition Winners. his career and influence within a of stories about the career of one of Booking unnecessary). Enquiries to Jerusalem. Highgate Society Hall, 10A Lauderdale House, Highgate Hill, N6. European context. Until October 5. Britain’s best loved comedy legends of 07530 719 119. Sunday, August 3. South Grove, Highgate Village. For more the 70s Robin Askwith as told by the A wide and varied selection of works Yan Tan Tethera: The Connections Talk – Flip Your Karma. Pirate Castle, information ring 0800 092 3357. 8pm, man himself. From smoking dope with from photographers of all backgrounds Between Textile-making and Song. Oval Road, Camden, London NW1 7EA. Thursday, August 7. Jimi Hendrix & experiencing the real – professional, recreational and student Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent’s Park 4.30pm- 6pm, Sunday, August 3. Keats in London. Meet at Moorgate tube. Withnail and I, to rolling around with – using a range of techniques. There’s Road, NW1. Along with David Littler’s Hampstead Heath Croquet Club – Club Discover the London haunts of the Charlotte Rampling, Linda Bellingham, an open category and a heritage-themed exhibition of his archival exploration afternoon – all welcome to try this ‘‘Cockney poet’’. Starting at Keats’s Pamela Stephenson and Princess category. Until Monday, August 4. Also at of the subject, artists Freddie Robins, fascinating game on our lawns by birthplace in Moorgate, through the Margaret – it will have you in stitches. Lauderdale House: Pride in the House. Shane Waltener, Stewart Easton and the the tennis courts in Golders Hill Park. quiet City streets to Cheapside, walk to 7.30pm, Friday, August 1, 9.15pm, Work by gay and lesbian artists selected McGrath Makers’ Group showcase new Enquiries to 07943 658242 or email Apothecaries Hall and stroll along the Saturday, August 2. from Lauderdale’s national competition, work. Free. Until Thursday, September enquiries@hampsteadheathcroquetclub. river to London Bridge. We finish by the chosen for their talent, skills and 25. The Doris Day Songbook. Upstairs at the org.uk 2pm-4pm, Sunday, August 3. Keats memorial statue in Guys Hospital. demonstrating an original and personal Gatehouse, Highgate Village N6. Part Emily’s Walking Book Club. Daunt Books £8 / £6 concessions. Booking essential voice. Until Monday, August 4. Talks, Music & Walks of The Camden Fringe Festival 2014. Hampstead, 51 South End Road, NW3. – keatsevents.eventbrite.co.uk 11 am- An evening of nostalgia and celebration Shelagh Wakely – A View From A Join other book-lovers for a walk on 1.30 pm, Saturday, August 9. Camden Beach – NW1’s very own of the wonderful Doris Day – following Window. Camden Arts Centre, Hampstead Heath to discuss Doris Dickens in Barnet: a guided walk. Meet seaside resort. Roundhouse’s terrace, on from Claudia’s recent successful UK Arkwright Road, off Finchley Road, Lessing’s bold first novel, The Grass at High Barnet tube station, 2.30pm. Chalk Farm Road, NW1. Summer in tour. Claudia Morris adds a sophisticated NW3. Print, video, unfired ceramics, is Singing. (Children, friends and dogs Dickens knew Barnet, Finchley and the city has just got better – with 150 jazz take on many of Doris Day’s hits delicate drawings in pencil and wire are all very welcome!) Please join us at Highgate extremely well. Explore the tonnes of sand, deckchairs, beach huts, with a voice that is pitch-perfect and and an intricate floor installation. Plus our shop on South End Road, 11.30am, connections on a guided walk. 020 8440 ping-pong, live music, tasty food and beautifully interpretive with flawless other artists with whom Wakely shared ice-cold drinks. Free entry. Noon-11pm Sunday, August 3. 6805, [email protected], www. creative concerns. Until September diction and has an unerring sense (Mondays 5pm-11pm). Saturday, July Talk – World War One Remembered. St barnetwalks.talktalk.net, £8, £4 for 28. Also at Camden Arts Centre: Jesse of rhythm. Supported by Malcolm under 12s. Saturday, August 9. 26 – Saturday, August 23. Edmonston on keys, Julian Jackson James Church, St James Lane, Muswell Wine – Ceramics. Work stemming from Afternoon Poems: War Poetry from a fascination with objects and materials. Children’s Workshops: Pick ‘n’ Mix on bass and Andrew Bain on drums. Hill, N10. An illustrated talk followed by Week. London Jewish Cultural Centre, a short period of reflection to remember Home. Keats House, 10 Keats Grove,