News 1–10 Playing the Changes 1–2 Dec 2017 Barbican Maker: Emma Johnson 3–4 Transpose 5–6 The Caretaker 7–8 Ho Ho Homeware 9–10 Listings 11–44 Art 11–14 Film 15–19 Classical Music 28–36 Contemporary Music 37–38 Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Hand Anatomy) (1982) © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York..tif Theatre & 39–42 Dance Christian Campbell, an influence. Housing Learning 43–44 Trinidadian Akomfrah and Basquiat Bahamian poet, at the same institution Information 22–27 changes the conversation. essayist and cultural Explore 22 critic, considers This is a crucial time to look at the importance of Basquiat again given major Calendar 23–25 global cultural shifts including Basquiat’s work for Booking 27 the rise of more African- today’s audience. American, Caribbean, Latin American and other diaspora Some questions for Boom artists and writers; the rise for Real: what tools, what of ’First World’ discourses language, what new ways on diaspora; the rise of of being together do we intersectional black theories have now that we didn’t (such as black feminist have then with which to read theory, black queer theory, the work of Jean-Michel etc) and new histories of Basquiat? How has the work black expressive cultures; changed (which is also to the rise of critical theory; the ask, how have we changed)? rise of alternative histories And how does the work of conceptualism; the rise read us now? Fortuitously a and increasing visibility of

News new commission, Purple, is black immigrants in North currently on show in the Curve America and Europe; the by the ferociously brilliant development of institutional artist John Akomfrah, support for the arts outside of

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Playing the Changes

2 News Dec 2017 3 News Dec 2017 Barbican Maker: Emma Johnson ‘Something which ‘build’ through‘build’ stacking. When Although I like surface surface Ilike Although That’s partly why I became Ibecame why partly That’s Barbican until January 2018. the at exclusive on display designs, playful Brutalist architecture, creating minimal and celebrates the once called ‘monstrous’ work her beech, and porcelain Through talent. emerging for call open an initiative, Makers Barbican of our part as Shop new the Barbican maker to in showcased be latest the is Johnson Emma Ceramicist design notions which lie in notions liedesign which in typical between a balance range,designing the Atro-city can users which architecture, miniature interchangeable an decoration on other people’s people’s other on decoration and I was drawn to ceramics ceramics to drawn Iwas and composites, and ceramics) to achance had we course practical enjoyed always strong and sculptural forms the Brutalism; in interested so slipcasting and mould making. mould and slipcasting away;straight particularly exploring form in my work. replicate these in ceramics. ceramics. in these replicate work, it’s not my strength; my strength; not it’s work, I wanted the pieces to convey convey to pieces the I wanted being as my work of I think I’m a lot more interested in in interested I’m more alot I’m automatically drawn to to drawn I’m automatically Brutalist aesthetics andBrutalist aesthetics the Before university I didn’t Ididn’t university Before fit my interests perfectly. my interests fit forms, and really love love really and forms, have many opportunities (wood, metal, polymers/ good design is is design good the challenge to of trying architectural of precision the materials different using try I’d clay, but with work to lack of adornment along with lessons atlessons school. In our timelessness’ I think makes ‘Ceramics can have a can ‘Ceramics whether a form will will aform whether a much softer way. Rather way. Rather softer a much in architecture the captures what how on apun of a bit years the over architecture changing opinions around London. aesthetic elements, I’ve taken coloured glaze, and the rivets rivets the and glaze, coloured the allow materials these of simplicity clean the Ifelt as and fashions and come trends surpass can object an good design is timelessness. If If timelessness. is design good My work looks at the the at looks work My Something which I think makes I think makes which Something surrounding Brutalist Brutalist surrounding sharp and rigid forms to be be to forms rigid and sharp was once seen as ‘atrocious’ ‘atrocious’ as seen once was rather than hidden away. hidden than rather a with covered than rather used to attach the beech to to beech the attach to used beech, and porcelain in work Brutalist buildings, mainly mainly buildings, Brutalist in a new light), so I prefer Iprefer so light), anew in into a new era still looking looking still era anew into by many is now being seen seen being now is by many has been stained throughout, stained has been (hence the name ‘Atro-city’, as than trying to recreate the the recreate to trying than it as camera my film use to the To study architecture. the the porcelain are celebrated celebrated are porcelain the porcelain The focus. main the lots of trips to photograph photograph to trips of lots look of concrete, I chose to to Ichose concrete, of look can’t always predict alwayscan’t predict be successful’ of own, its soI mind as well as other elements functional my own with along of piece, each and which good design. When designing Pottery: Form and Aesthetic Aesthetic and Form Pottery: exactly which design details details design which exactly my pieces, I referred to Robin Robin to Ireferred my pieces, a is it Ithink then modern, requirements, (such as as (such requirements, wanting all of the pieces to to pieces the of all wanting were unnecessary. I balanced Ibalanced unnecessary. were function the enhance would Functional Functional book Hopper’s from aesthetics. Brutalist in Pots ofPurpos in Pots be able to stack together), together), stack to able be the advice from this book book this from advice the e to research research e to on barbican.org.uk/shop colour palette I’ve chosen to to I’ve chosen palette colour inspired and mid-century Browse Emma Johnson’s range range Johnson’s Emma Browse Read the full interview on on interview full the Read work with will age well – I’ll –I’ll well age will with work I’m hoping that the simple simple the that I’m hoping forms, use honest of materials, blog.barbican.org.uk blog.barbican.org.uk how the pieces have fared! have pieces the how years afew in see to have

4 News Dec 2017 5 News Dec 2017 Transpose Following its successful debut at the Barbican last autumn, Transpose guides this year’s audience on an illuminating theatrical journey. Actor, author and singer-songwriter CN Lester

takes a brief look at the history of transgender performance. Dec 2017

For nearly six years, Transpose And yet there is still something concert hall, to strip audiences – a cross-genre event intensely powerful about of their identity. In that showcasing trans and queer this association – something moment – safe in anonymity, artists – has focused on film, deep in our history as gender overwhelmed with pleasure spoken word, classical music, outsiders. Sometimes that – we are transformed poetry, comedy and visual history is one of private beyond our sense of self: age, art. But it was only after our performance: the mollies nationality, mode of living. first show at the Barbican in of 18th-century Europe – a Crucially, we are transported 2016 that we realised we’d unique gendered category of outside of our accustomed never really thought about the time – performed secret genders and desires. the theatre of it all – what staged rituals of marriage and happens when a trans person childbirth. There are cases of When trans people take to takes the stage, and what odd mirroring: Victorian music the stage we take with us, by magic that space allows. necessity, all the good and ‘We have the the bad that comes with our A strange oversight? Maybe. chance to share experience of performance, Some of our most visible and performativity and fantasy. But enduring cultural moments lives too often the most extraordinary thing of gender subversion and derided or seen as is that we have the power to queer desire materialise in too complicated to take the audience there with front of an audience: drag us. The power shifts. Empathy stars, pantomime dames, understand’ shifts. In that combination Shakespearean boys, and of experiences, we have the mezzos in trousers making halls, with their drag comedy chance to share lives too love to the soprano; costume, acts and principal boys, were often derided or seen as too make-up and that carnival also home to cross-dressed complicated to understand. atmosphere where ordinary sex workers plying their trade. As an artist, for me theatre is rules of behaviour and identity Most meaningful of all are always a magical space; as a are suspended. those points where exploration human being, that exchange is on the stage went hand in the most precious. But in our day-to-day lives we hand with increased personal suffer from this association. and political freedom. Weimar Transpose: Barbican Most, if not all, trans people Berlin was broadly famous CN Lester will know the pain of being for its cabaret scene, although 8–9 Dec called a fake and a pretense. those cabarets functioned Worse than fakes: deliberate not just as entertainment, but See page 41 for details deceptions. If how we present also as meeting places and ourselves is accepted as community centres for a trans truthful in the dark of a theatre, population newly recognised it’s too often derided as and fighting for their right to trickery in the light of everyday exist and thrive.

experience. People want to News know what’s underneath, Michel Poizat, writing on before, ‘original’, as though the ecstatic power of opera, who we are is a costume they described the ability of the

Image © Robin Conway © Robin Image have the right to remove. human voice, in a darkened 6 Dec 2017

Leyland Kirby’s V/VM Project

John Doran looks The Stockport-born musician, music producer, who first forward to a rare who now lives in Poland, has made his name as V/VM (a suggested that the end is in caustic, dislocating and often live performance sight for the project, which hilarious noise/outsider rave by The Caretaker, deals with memory, melancholy project) to undertake one of aka experimental and decay; he is currently part his rare live appearances (it musician Leyland way through what could well is six years since his last UK be his grand closing statement. show). Speaking about the Kirby, which marks Everywhere at the End of event – a collaboration with the Krakow-based Time is a series of six albums the visual artists and Ivan artist’s first gig released at intervals over a Seal – he emphasises the word three-year period that sees the performance. ‘Shows for me in his homeland entire project slip mercilessly are specific moments. The for six years. into dementia. (Parts one, two process won’t necessarily be and three are already out, important here; what will be

News Leyland James Kirby is The and he is currently working on important is representation Caretaker. He has always been four and five in the series.) of the concept and project.’ The Caretaker, but for how much longer will this be So there couldn’t be a The Caretaker was born with

7 the case? better time for the Electronic Selected Memories from the direction –taking 1930s Big and You’ by Ray Nobleand of Jack Torrance (Jack one-point perspective –that a hotel corridor–filmed in a longtracking shot along Haunted Ballroom in1999. The gradually honesinona Stanley Kubrick’s trademark, project was initially inspired Nicholson) ataFourth of July in 1921. Thecombinationof his becamethe horror movie TheShining: basis for ahauntingnew ball attheOverlook Hotel black and white photograph by theclosingsceneof 1980 track ‘Midnight,theStars these chillingvisualsandthe Alzheimer’s Disease in which Alzheimer’s Diseaseinwhich The Caretaker. Speaking Then, lastyear, after a & MFO, The Caretaker Caretaker The & MFO, An apogee of ambitionwithAn conceptually complex, the a switch hedescribesas as ameansof investigating dislocating styleof music. and thenprocessing themto done ontheEverywhere announced thathewas aware they have dementia. of aspecific late stage of axis whosemethodologywas on thehauntology/ambient are endless possibilities.’ are endlesspossibilities.’ as Ihave noideawhichway Empty BlissBeyond thisWorld Pure Anterograde Amnesia. and Felicita and See page 38 for details for 38 page See extra layers of meaningwith series, however. ‘Itexcites me music gained structural and music gainedstructural and moving from ‘thesublime music recorded from old78s process’. Asitbecamemore produce avery spectral and NIVHEK (Liz Harris/Grouper) (Liz NIVHEK recently theproject reached an Fri 8Dec Fri period of relative quiet,Kirby In 2005theproject took on working ontheselatter parts Kirby beganusingtheproject Band, SwingandChoral Unsound Dislocation is stillalot of work to be influenced by andreflective in 2011, adeeplymoving album is stillanadventure asthere it willallgo.Each day Iwork textural depthby turn.Until to theextreme interms of the various effects of dementia, the release of Theoretically today headds thatthere thinking of callingtimeon the sufferer isnolonger

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Events Free, bookingessentialviatheAceHotel website music, fashion andstreet artculture. in whichBasquiatcontinuesto influence A specialevening focusing ontheways Culture Club and Basquiat Thu 7Dec7pm,Ace Hotel London official hotel partnerisAceHotel London. fund of theLondonCommunityFoundation. The by Cockayne Grants for theArts,adonor-advised from Momart.Thepublicprogramme issupported tp bennettandPHILLIPS,withadditional support The exhibition issponsored by NET-A-PORTER, the SchirnKunsthalle Frankfurt. and organised incollaboration with Nairne, curator, BarbicanArtGallery, by DrDieter BuchhartandEleanor Basquiat: Boomfor Real isco-curated his deathat27in1988, beenenormous. artist whoseimpact andinfluence has,since material, theexhibition captures thespiritof an rare photography, film footage andarchive literature, film and television. Incorporating focus onBasquiat’srelationship withmusic, in theUK.Thisisalsofirst exhibition to private collections,many never before seen works from international museumsand an outstanding selectionof more than100 This unprecedented exhibition bringstogether Keith HaringandBlondie,amongothers. musician, whoworked withAndyWarhol, creativity of thisself-taught artist,poet,DJ and New York artscene.Engage intheexplosive a pioneeringprodigy of the1980s downtown Discover thework of Jean-MichelBasquiat, Real for Boom Basquiat: Until 28Jan2018, ArtGallery

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Jean-Michel Basquiat, Untitled (Pablo Picasso), 1984. Private collection, Italy. © The Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Licensed by Artestar, New York.

Sat 9 Dec 1–4pm, Art Gallery Thu 14 Dec 7pm, Art Gallery Family Drop-in Animation Exhibition Tour: Dieter Buchhart Workshop Guest curator Dieter Buchhart explores Join visual artist and animator Reza Ben Basquiat’s pioneering artistic practice. Gajra to make your own Basquiat-esque Tickets £16, concessions available, includes characters and then bring them to life using same-day entry to the exhibition stop-motion animation. Drawing inspiration from Basquiat’s playful, expressive and enigmatic paintings, participants will 21 Sep–28 Jan, Across the Centre explore and experiment with a variety of Basquiat: Boom for Real animation techniques, including drawing, collage, pixilation and cut-out animation. Creative Learning Free, no booking required An activity sheet is available, alongside a full programme of tours and workshops Art suitable for schools and family visits. See website for more details 12 Dec 2017

John Akomfrah, still from Purple, 2017. Six-screen film installation. © John Akomfrah and Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy of Lisson Gallery

The Curve Until 7 Jan 2018 John Akomfrah: Purple British artist and film-maker and winner of the Opening Times 2017 Artes Mundi prize, John Akomfrah, Sat–Wed 11am–8pm presents an immersive, multi-channel video Thu–Fri 11am–9pm installation in The Curve. His most ambitious project to date, Purple is an enveloping, Free admission six-channel video installation addressing climate change and its effects on human communities, biodiversity and the wilderness. At a time when, according to the UN, greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at their highest levels in history, with people experiencing the significant impacts

Listings of climate change, including shifting weather 13 Tue 12 Dec, Cinema 2 Memories of Underdevelopment 15

John Akomfrah Presents … Dec 2017 Chosen for its inspiration, the third film picked by John Akomfrah in this series looks at post- revolutionary Cuba through the eyes of an ordinary man, who becomes unsure of his place in a new world order. See page 19 for further details

Architecture on Stage

Thu Dec 2017, Frobisher Auditorium 1 Job Floris, Monadnock Job Floris has run Rotterdam-based studio Monadnock with Sandor Naus since 2006 and is post-graduate course leader at the city’s Academie Van Bouwkunst. Monadnock’s projects have included a number of temporary structures including a portable partition on the banks of the River Strand in 2008 and, more recently, a public tower in the Dutch tour of Nieuw-Bergen in 2015. Tickets £15 The Architecture Foundation, in association with the Barbican, presents Architecture on Stage – a programme of talks and debates patterns, rising sea levels, and more extreme weather events, Akomfrah’s Purple brings a multitude of ideas into conversation, including animal extinctions, the memory of ice, the plastic ocean and global warming. Akomfrah has combined hundreds of hours of archival footage with newly shot film and a hypnotic sound score to produce the video installation. The exhibition has been commissioned by the Barbican, London and co-commissioned by Bildmuseet Umeå, Sweden, TBA21-Academy, The Institute of Contemporary Art/ Boston and Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon. Projections by Christie Digital Art

Atlas House courtesy of Monadnock 14 Dec 2017 Film

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15 # Certificate to be confirmed From Fri 29 Dec Molly’s Game# Prolific writer Aaron Sorkin directs this

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From Fri 15 Dec Mountains May Depart# A beautiful documentary exploring our fascination with mountains. Directed by Jennifer Peedom and narrated by Willem Film Defoe, this breathtaking film is a collaboration with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. 16 Dec 2017

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Events and Seasons From Fri 8 Dec Brigsy Bear# 1–10 Dec, Cinemas 1 & 3 This indie offering about a twenty-something London International guy’s obsession with a children’s television show bear is a fantastically offbeat black comedy. Animation Festival 2017 Starring SNL’s Kyle Mooney, Mark Hamill, The UK’s largest animation festival returns for Jane Adams and Claire Danes, it tracks one its 14th year with the best shorts and features man’s quest to finish his favourite kids TV show. from around the world, including international US 2017 Dir Dave McCary 97 min showcases, special children’s screenings and the ever-popular Best of the Fest. Tickets £11.50–15 plus booking fee* 8 & 9 Dec, Cinemas 1, 2 & 3 Global Health Film Festival 2017 Until 3 Dec, Cinema 2 This annual , two-day festival brings together health advocates, film-makers, industry experts, Finland: Independence Day journalists and the general public to experience We mark the centenary of Finnish a mix of features and short films (including independence with a season of films curated premieres), VR installations, expert Q&A sessions by the Midnight Sun Film Festival, founded and workshops for global health advocacy. by Finnish filmmakers Mika and Aki Presented in partnership with the Global Health Kaurismäki. Titles include contemporary Film Initiative coming-of-age tale Little Wing and a beautiful

Listings 4k restoration of the visual poem film, People in the Summer Night, shown on 35mm. Presented in partnership with the Finnish Film Foundation and National Audiovisual Institute 17 Until 17 Dec, Cinema 3 Tue 12 Dec 8.45pm, Cinema 2 Time Memory Dream Memories of 15 Cinema Matters Underdevelopment

This final section in our series about cinema’s John Akomfrah Presents… Dec 2017 impact on the world considers film’s complex One of the films that has inspired the work relationship with time, including the new and world view of artist John Akomfrah, ways cinema represents our dreamscapes, this classic work of Cuban cinema charts the memory processes, and experience of complex emotional voyage of a rich writer who time. We conclude with arthouse classics struggles to adapt to life after Fidel Castro and Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) and The the revolutionaries come to power in 1959. Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943). Cuba 1968 Dir Tomás Gutiérrez Alea 104 min £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee* Complementing John Akomfrah: Purple, 6 Sat 9 Dec 4pm, Cinema 3 Oct–7 Jan, see page 13 for details Free CeCe # Some of the realities of trans lives and the Wed 13 Dec 6.45pm, Cinema 2 effects of structural oppression are presented in this powerful documentary, which tells the Adrian Wootton’s Hollywood story of Chrishaun Reed ‘CeCe’ McDonald, Legends: who was imprisoned after a man was killed Members’ event while she defended herself on a routine trip to the shops. Actress Laverne Cox Continuing his Hollywood Legends talk series, (Orange is the New Black) narrates. Adrian Wootton – CEO of Film London looks at Garland’s extraordinary life and US 2016 Dir Jacqueline Gares 100 min distinguished career, illustrated with clips Free Cece is screened alongside Transpose, and slides from every facet of her work. showing in the Barbican Pit Theatre 8 £9 & 9 Dec. See page 41 for details £9.50–10.50 plus booking fee

Tue 12 Dec 6.30pm, Cinema 3 La Jetee + The Blood of a Poet 15 + Presentation by Nicky Clayton and Clive Wilkins Science on Screen Nicky Clayton and Clive Wilkins explore the shifting nature of memory, questioning our assumptions about how time unfolds. Followed by a screening of Blood of a Poet, Jean Cocteau’s enigmatic first feature, and Chris Marker’s La Jeteé, which brings to life the post-apocalyptic story of a man obsessed with an image from his past. France 1930 Dir Jean Cocteau 53 min France 1962 Dir Chris Marker 28 min

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Tue 5 Dec 7.15pm, Cinema 2 ROH: The Nutcracker# A young girl’s enchanted present leads her on a wonderful Christmas adventure in this beautiful Meet Me In St Louis classic ballet from the Royal Opera House, danced to Tchaikovsky’s magnificent score. £21 plus booking fee* Wed 13 Dec 8.30pm, Cinema 3 Meet Me in St Louis U Thu 7 Dec 7pm, Cinema 2 + Introduction by 12A Adrian Wootton NT Live: Young Marx Rory Kinnear Oliver Chris One of the most joyful and exuberant of the plays Marx and classic MGM musicals, this period family is Engels, in this new comedy. It’s 1850, and story was shot in glorious technicolour Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean as a tonic to the grim reality of World Street, Soho. Enemies from all sides circle like War II. This is Judy Garland at her best, vultures, but there’s no-one better in the capital with performances including ‘Have at putting on a show than Karl Heinrich Marx. Yourself a Merry Little Christmas’. £19–20 plus booking fee* US 1944 Dir Vincente Minnelli 113 min £8.50–9.50 plus booking fee* Thu 28 Dec 6pm, Cinema 2 Andrea Chénier# Teatro alla Scala Set in the French Revolution and loosely based on the turbulent real life events of the poet Andrea Chénier. Umberto Giordano’s opera tells the story of a poet Listings who falls in love with a young aristocrat * Booking fees and will do anything to win her heart. Booking fee per online transaction 60p; 70p by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person. £21 plus booking fee*

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Fri 1 event venue page Fri 15 event venue page 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 6.30pm LIAF Opening Gala Cinema1 17 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.15pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.30pm Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta Hall 28 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.45pm ROLLER The Pit 41 7.15pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 9pm LIAF British Showcase Cinema 1 17 Sat 16 Sat 2 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10am Framed Film Club Christmas Party Cinema 1, Foyer 19 11am Framed Film Club: LIAF Amazing Animations Cinema 3 19 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 1.30pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 1.30pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 2pm LIAF Abstract Showcase Cinema 3 17 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 3pm Finland Independence Day:Year of the Hare Cinema 2 17 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 5pm LIAF International Competition 1 Cinema 3 17 7.15pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 7pm LIAF International Competition 2 Cinema 3 17 7.30pm LSO/Rattle: Bernstein 100 Hall 33 7.15pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia and King’s College Choir Hall 29 Sun 17 7.45pm ROLLER The Pit 41 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 9pm LIAF Cleopatra Cinema 3 17 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 Sun 3 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 2pm Time Memory Dream: Cinema 3 18 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 2pm Finland: Independence Day: People in the Summer Cinema 2 17 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 3pm LIAF Marvellous Animation for 8-15-year-olds Cinema 3 17 7pm LSO/Rattle Hall 33 4pm Finland: Independence Day: Little Wing Cinema 2 17 5pm LIAF David OReilly Lecture Cinema 3 17 Mon 18 7pm LSO Sing: A Choral Christmas Hall 29 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7pm LIAF: International Competition 3 Cinema 3 17 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 9pm LIAF: International Competition 4 Cinema 3 17 7.15pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 7.30pm Kate Rusby at Christmas Hall 38 Mon 4 event venue page Tue 19 event venue page 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 6.30pm LIAF International Competition 5 Cinema 3 17 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 9pm LIAF International Competition 6 Cinema 3 17 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 Tue 5 6pm The Nutcracker and I Milton Court 33 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7.15pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 7.30pm BBC SO/Armistead Maupin Hall 33 6.30pm LIAF International Competition 7 Cinema 3 17 8.30pm LIAF international Competition 8 Cinema 3 17 Wed 20 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 Wed 6 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 6.30pm LIAF Female Figures + ScreenTalk Cinema 3 17 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.30pm BBC SO: Finland Awakes Hall 29 7pm AAM: Handel’s Messiah Hall 34 9pm LIAF Abstract Art in Motion + ScreenTalk Cinema 3 17 7.15pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39

Thu 7 Thu 21 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 7pm Architecture on Stage: Job Floris, Monadnock Frobisher Auditorium 1 14 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7pm NT Live: Young Marx Cinema 2 19 1.30pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.15pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.30pm AAM: Bach and Telemann Milton Court 30 6.30pm LSO Half Six Fix: Bernstein Hall 34 7.30pm LSO/Znaider Hall 30 7.15pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40

Fri 8 Fri 22 9am–8.15pm Global Health Film Festival Cinema 1,2,3 17 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.15pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.30pm Unsound Dislocation Hall 38 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7.45pm Transpose The Pit 41 7.15pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40

Sat 9 Sat 23 9am–8.15pm Global Health Film Festival Cinema 1 17 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 11am Framed Film Club Cinema 2 19 1.30pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 1.30pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 4pm LIAF Closing Gala: Best of the Fest Cinema 1 17 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 4pm Free CeCe Cinema 3 18 7.15pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 7.15pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 7.30pm Christmas with Russell Watson Hall 34 7.30pm Les Arts Florissants Hall 31 7.45pm Transpose The Pit 41 24 Calendar Dec 2017 Sun 10 event venue page Sun 24–Tue 26 Centre closed 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 Wed 27 11am BBC SO Total Immersion: Esa-Pekka Salonen various 32 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 4pm Silent Film and Live Music Cinema 1 18 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 4pm LIAF Best of the Fest – repeat Cinema 3 17 7.15pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 7.30pm Star Wars and Beyond Hall 34 Mon 11 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 Thu 28 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7.15pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 1.30pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 2.30pm The Magic Moments of Burt Bacharach Hall 35 Tue 12 7.15pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7.30pm Beethoven’s Ninth Hall 35 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 1pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 Fri 29 6.30pm Science on Screen: La Jetee + Blood of a Poet Cinema 3 18 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 7pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 8.45pm John Akomfrah Presents… Cinema 2 19 2.30pm The Four Seasons by Candlelight Hall 35 Memories of Underdevelopment 7.15pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40 7.30pm Musicals in Concert: Leading Ladies Hall 35 Wed 13 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 Sat 30 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 1.30pm Julius Caesar Theatre 39 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 2.30pm Glenn Miller Orchestra Hall 36 6.45pm Adrian Wootton’s 7.15pm Antony & Cleopatra Theatre 39 Hollywood Legends: Judy Garland Cinema 2 18 7.30pm Zimmer vs Williams Hall 36 7.15pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40 7.30pm LSO/Rattle Hall 33 Sun 31 8.30pm Meet Me in St Louis Cinema 3 19 10am–6pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 11am–8pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 Thu 14 7.30pm The Magic of Vienna Hall 36 10am–10pm Basquiat: Boom for Real Art Gallery 11 6.30pm Time Memory Dream: Picnic at Hanging Rock Cinema 3 18 11am–9pm John Akomfrah: Purple The Curve 13 10.30am Snow Mouse The Pit 42 1.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 3.30pm Snow Mouse The Pit 42 7pm Titus Andronicus Theatre 40 7pm Exhibition Tour with Dieter Buchhart Art Gallery 12

25 Calendar Dec 2017 Dec 2017 Piano Appeal When did you last lose yourself in a recital at the Barbican?

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Liverpool Street Moorgate This guide is printed on 50% recycled Listings paper using environmentally friendly materials and carbon neutral processes Don’t forget to recycle your copy 27 27 once you have finished with it Dec 2017

Sol Gabetta and Cecilia Bartoli © Esther Maase

Fri 1 Dec 7.30pm Cecilia Bartoli and Sol Gabetta Dolce Duello: Baroque arias for voice and cello Critics have acclaimed Cecilia Bartoli’s ‘over-the-top sense of spectacle’ (Bachtrack). Now pair her with dazzling Argentinian cellist Sol Gabetta, and an evening of Baroque arias becomes a sonic firework display. Hasse Overture from Il Ciro riconosciuto Caldara ‘Fortuna e speranza’ from Nitocri Albinoni ‘Aure andate e baciate’ from Il nascimento dell’Aurora Gabrielli ‘Aure voi de’ miei sospiri’ from San Sigismondo, re di Borgogna

Classical Music Pollarolo Overture from Ariodante Handel ‘Lascia la spina cogli la rosa’ from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno Raupach ‘O placido il mare’ from Siroe, re di Persia Handel ‘What passion cannot Music raise * Booking fees and quell!’ from Ode for St Cecilia’s Day Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by Boccherini No 10 in D major phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person. Gluck ‘Dance of the Furies’ The booking fee may be reduced for certain events from Orfeo ed Euridice Boccherini ‘Se d’un amor tiranno’ All events take place in the Barbican Hall from Aria accademica unless otherwise stated Cecilia Bartoli mezzo-soprano Sol Gabetta cello

Visit barbican.org.uk/classical for information Cappella Gabetta Classical Music on multibuy discounts Andrés Gabetta concertmaster Business Members receive discounts on Tickets £25–85 plus booking fee* selected events Part of Barbican Presents 28 Sat 2 Dec 7.30pm Britten Sinfonia and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

Dec 2017 The celebrated choristers of King’s College, Cambridge join Britten Sinfonia in a performance of Bernstein’s exhilarating Chichester Psalms. Emma-Ruth Richards New work (world premiere; William Alwyn Foundation commission) Bernstein Chichester Psalms Vaughan Williams Dona nobis pacem Britten Sinfonia Stephen Cleobury conductor Jacqueline Shave leader/director Ailish Tynan soprano Neal Davies baritone Choir of King’s College, Cambridge Tickets £15–45 plus booking fee* £70 Premium tickets available: enjoy the best seats plus an invitation to an exclusive pre-concert reception Part of Bernstein 100

Guy Johnston © Ben Wright Sun 3 Dec 7pm LSO Sing: A Choral Christmas Wed 6 Dec 7.30pm BBC Symphony Orchestra: Sing along with the LSO’s choirs and Brass Ensemble in their annual Christmas Finland Awakes! spectacle, featuring audience carols Marking the centenary of Finland’s and other festive favourites. independence, Sakari Oramo offers an LSO Brass Ensemble all-Sibelius programme, including the UK London Symphony Chorus premiere of Press Celebrations followed by his LSO Community Choir First Symphony, a noble symphonic debut. LSO Discovery Choirs Sibelius Press Celebrations Music Simon Halsey conductor (UK premiere) Tickets £12–30 (£10 wildcard) Cantique and Devotion plus booking fee* Symphony No 1 BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor Guy Johnston cello Tickets £10–36 plus booking fee* Listings * Booking fees Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person.

29 The booking fee may be reduced on certain events Thu 7 Dec 7.30pm, Milton Court Thu 7 Dec 7.30pm Academy of Ancient Music: LSO/Znaider: Bach and Telemann – Mozart and Tchaikovsky

Reversed Fortunes Nikolaj Znaider takes on the roles of both Dec 2017 Bach’s illustrious reputation casts a long conductor and soloist to explore the compelling shadow over his contemporaries, including links between Mozart and Tchaikovsky. once extremely influential composers such Mozart Violin Concerto No 2 as Telemann. This concert gives equal Mozart Violin Concerto No 3 billing to some of their finest works. Tchaikovsky Symphony No 6, Pathétique JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 5 London Symphony Orchestra Telemann Concerto for Flute and Recorder Nikolaj Znaider conductor/violin in E minor Telemann Ouverture-Suite Burlesque Tickets £15–55 (£10 wildcard) de Quixotte plus booking fee* JS Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 4 Recommended by Classic FM Academy of Ancient Music 6pm Bojan C ˇ ic ˇ ic ´ director & violin LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Rachel Brown flute and recorder Free pre-concert recital Rachel Beckett recorder Alastair Ross harpsichord Tickets £15–32 plus booking fee* 6.30pm Pre-concert talk Free to ticket-holders Classical Music

Nikolaj Znaider © Lars Gundersen 30 Dec 2017

William Christie

Sat 9 Dec 7.30pm Les Arts Florissants William Christie conductor Les Arts Florissants/ Lucia Martin Caron, Emmanuelle De Monteverdi: Selva Negri soprano morale e spirituale Carlo Vistoli countertenor Cyril Auvity, Reinoud Van Mechelen The crowning achievement of Monteverdi’s tenor sacred music, his ‘Moral and Spiritual Marc Mauillon, Cyril Costanzo, Forest’, is brought to life by the trademark John Taylor Ward bass blend of warmth and directness of William Christie and his ensemble. Tickets £15–45 plus booking fee* Monteverdi Selva morale e spirituale: Part of Barbican Presents Magnificat primo a 8 voci Supported by Institut français Salve Regina a 2 voci Pianto della Madonna sopra al Lamento del’Arianna Laudate Dominum a voce sola Confitebor terzo Laudate Dominum terzo O ciechi, il tanto affaticar che giova? Voi ch’ascoltate in rime sparse

Listings E questa vita un lampo Chi vuol che m’innamori * Booking fees Gloria a 7 voci Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person.

31 The booking fee may be reduced on certain events Sun 10 Dec 6.45pm, FreeStage BBC SO Total Immersion: Learning Project Performance The culmination of a BBC Symphony Esa-Pekka Salonen Orchestra learning project based on Esa-Pekka Salonen is a visceral composer, who the music of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Dec 2017 understands the orchestra from the inside and Free event writes thrillingly for it. Explore his mesmerising music in a day of film, conversation, 7.30pm chamber works and orchestral concerts. Concert Day passes £35–57 plus booking fee* Esa-Pekka Salonen (only available by telephone or in person) Gambit 11am, Cinema 3 Mimo II Film Esa-Pekka Salonen, Anti-MaestroPG Esa-Pekka Salonen will introduce A candid portrait of Esa-Pekka Salonen at each work from the stage. work conducting his own and other works with the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. BBC Symphony Orchestra Sakari Oramo conductor Fr 2011 Dir Emmanuelle Franc 52 min Anu Komsi soprano Tickets £8 plus booking fee* Piia Komsi soprano Nicholas Daniel BBC Symphony Chorus 1pm, Milton Court Concert Tickets £10–36 plus booking fee* Esa-Pekka Salonen Part of Esa-Pekka Salonen Composer Focus for Solo Piano Second Meeting Yta1 Memoria Guildhall Musicians Tickets £12 plus booking fee*

3pm, Fountain Room Talk Meet the Composer: Esa-Pekka Salonen in conversation Free event. Limited capacity but admission guaranteed to day pass holders.

5pm, Milton Court Concert Esa-Pekka Salonen Two Songs from Kalender Röd Rautavaara Our Joyful’st Feast Esa-Pekka Salonen Dona nobis pacem Esa-Pekka Salonen Rautavaara Missa a capella Esa-Pekka Salonen Iri da iri Classical Music BBC Singers Baldur Brönnimann conductor Tickets £12 plus booking fee* 32 Wed 13 Dec 7.30pm, Sun 17 Dec 7pm Tue 19 Dec 7.30pm LSO/Rattle BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Sir Simon Rattle is joined by two Armistead Maupin

Dec 2017 international opera stars for a programme Armistead Maupin, legendary chronicler of of sumptuous music from the masters of San Francisco life, reads from his forthcoming Romanticism: Strauss and Mahler. funny, poignant and unflinchingly honest Strauss Metamorphosen memoir Logical Family, in an unmissable Mahler Das Lied von der Erde evening of words matched with music. London Symphony Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor David Parry conductor Simon O’Neill tenor Tickets £12–46 plus booking fee* Christian Gerhaher baritone Tickets £15–55 (£10 wildcard) plus booking fee* Tue 19 Dec 6&8pm, Milton Court Wed 13 Dec 5.45pm, Barbican ‘The Nutcracker and I’ Music Library by Alexandra Dariescu Free pre-concert talk Dare to dream! Experience Tchaikovsky’s Rattle exhibition curators Martin Campbell- Nutcracker as you’ve never seen it before. White and Edward Smith recall 40 years This innovative fusion of piano, ballerina of working with Sir Simon Rattle. and live digital animations will take you Free entry on a magical journey of discovery. Wed 13 Dec 6pm Alexandra Dariescu piano LSO Platforms: Guildhall Artists Nick Hillel director Jenna Lee choreographer Free pre-concert recital Désirée Ballantyne ballerina Adam Smith lead animator Sat 16 Dec 7.30pm Sander Loonen technical producer LSO/Rattle: Bernstein 100 Tickets £15 (£10 concessions) plus booking fee* Sir Simon Rattle celebrates the centenary Promoted by Guildhall School of Music & Drama of with a double-bill of works, culminating in the swinging, bluesy and uplifting fun of the musical . Bernstein Symphony No 2, The Age of Anxiety† Wonderful Town (concert version) London Symphony Orchestra Sir Simon Rattle conductor Krystian Zimerman piano† Danielle de Niese Eileen Alysha Umphress Ruth Nathan Gunn Bob Baker Duncan Rock Wreck London Symphony Chorus Simon Halsey chorus director Tickets £15–55 (£10 wildcard) plus booking fee*

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Danielle de Niese © Chris Dunlop 33 Wed 20 Dec 7pm Sat 23 Dec 7.30pm Academy of Ancient Music: Christmas with Russell Watson Handel’s Messiah The Raymond Gubbay Christmas celebrations

Let yourself be swept into Christmas by the kick off with tenor Russell Watson performing a Dec 2017 sparkling arias, glorious choruses, and the glorious concert of seasonal music and songs. raw emotion of Handel’s Messiah, one of the ‘Silent Night’ best-loved choral works in Western music. ‘Ave Maria’ Handel Messiah ‘White Christmas’ ‘O Holy Night’ Academy of Ancient Music ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’ Choir of the AAM ‘Adeste Fidelis’ Richard Egarr director & harpsichord Mary Bevan soprano London Concert Orchestra Reginald Mobley countertenor Simon Chalk conductor Thomas Hobbs tenor Laura Wright soprano Christopher Purves baritone Russell Watson tenor Birmingham Voices choir Tickets £10–50 plus booking fee* Tickets £20–58 plus booking fee* Please note start time Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd 6pm Pre-concert talk Free to ticket holders Wed 27 Dec 7.30pm Thu 21 Dec 6.30pm Star Wars and Beyond LSO Half Six Fix: Bernstein Join the London Concert Orchestra for an evening of music from John Williams’s In this bite-size, early-evening concert, iconic film scores, including Jurassic Park, Sir Simon Rattle welcomes us to Wonderful Indiana Jones, Star Wars and more. Town, Bernstein’s all-singing, all-dancing tribute to the (second) greatest city in the world! John Williams ET Bernstein Wonderful Town (concert version) Harry Potter Introduced on stage by the conductor Hook Jaws London Symphony Orchestra Star Wars Sir Simon Rattle conductor Superman Cast as 16 December Jurassic Park Schindler’s List Tickets £12–40 (£10 wildcard) plus booking fee* Close Encounters Part of Bernstein 100 Indiana Jones Recommended by Classic FM London Concert Orchestra Anthony Inglis conductor Tickets £16.50–42.50 plus booking fee* Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd Classical Music * Booking fees Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person.

The booking fee may be reduced on certain events 34 Thu 28 Dec 2.30pm Fri 29 Dec 2.30pm The Magic Moments The Four Seasons of Burt Bacharach by Candlelight

Dec 2017 The list of huge hits penned by Burt Bacharach The Mozart Festival Orchestra, complete from the 1950s to the 1980s numbers with period costume and candle-lit well into the hundreds; a line-up of great setting, presents a programme of popular guest singers pick out the highlights. Baroque and Classical masterpieces, ‘Alfie’ crowned by Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. ‘I’ll Never Fall in Love Again’ Stanley Voluntary ‘Anyone Who Had a Heart’ Mozart Eine kleine Nachtmusik ‘Do You Know the Way to San Jose?’ Handel ‘Rejoice Greatly’ from Messiah ‘The Look of Love’ ‘Let the Bright Seraphim’ from Samson ‘What the World Needs Now’ Bach Brandenburg Concerto No 3 in G major, London Concert Orchestra BWV 1048 Clarke Gareth Hudson conductor Trumpet Suite Pachelbel Graham Bickley guest singer Canon Handel Mary Carewe guest singer Eternal Source of Light Divine Vivaldi Alison Jiear guest singer The Four Seasons Abbie Osman guest singer Mozart Festival Orchestra Tickets £16.50–42.50 plus booking fee* in full 18th-century costume David Juritz director/violin Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd Rowan Pierce soprano Crispian Steele-Perkins trumpet Thu 28 Dec 7.30pm Tickets £16.50–39.50 plus booking fee* Beethoven’s Ninth Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd Christopher Warren-Green conducts an all-Beethoven programme featuring Fri 29 Dec 7.30pm the Choral symphony with its climactic ‘Ode to Joy’ performed by the Musicals in Concert: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Leading Ladies Beethoven No 5, Emperor West End leading ladies , Louise Symphony No 9, Choral Dearman and Linzi Hateley perform a selection of popular songs from Broadway Royal Philharmonic Orchestra musicals, including Oliver and . Christopher Warren-Green conductor Anita Watson soprano ‘As Long as he Needs Me’ from Oliver! Stephanie Windsor Lewis mezzo-soprano ‘Defying Gravity’ from Christopher Turner tenor ‘All that Jazz’ from Chicago Donald Thomson bass-baritone ‘’ from Les Miserables Mark Bebbington piano ‘Big Spender’ from Sweet Charity ‘I Don’t Know How to Love Him’ Goldsmiths Choral Union from Jesus Christ Superstar Highgate Choral Society London Concert Orchestra The London Chorus Richard Balcombe conductor Tickets £22.50–52.50 plus booking fee* Louise Dearman Kerry Ellis Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd Linzi Hateley Victoria Hamilton-Barritt

Listings Tickets £16.50–42.50 plus booking fee* Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd 35 Sat 30 Dec 2.30pm Sat 30 Dec 7.30pm Glenn Miller Orchestra Zimmer vs Williams The Glenn Miller Orchestra, whose ET, Harry Potter, Pirates of the unmistakeable big band sound defined Caribbean and more. An epic cinematic Dec 2017 a decade, performs a string of wartime celebration bringing together two of chart-toppers and 1940s hits. the greatest film music composers. ‘St Louis Blues March’ John Williams ‘Sing Sing Sing’ E.T. ‘It Happened in Sun Valley’ Harry Potter ‘Little Brown Jug’ Jurassic Park ‘Strike Up the Band’ Close Encounters ‘Pennsylvania 6-5000’ Star Wars ‘Moonlight Serenade’ Superman ‘String of Pearls’ Hans Zimmer ‘American Patrol’ Inception ‘Tuxedo Junction’ Pirates of the Caribbean ‘In the Mood’ The Dark Knight Rises ‘Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree’ Batman Begins ‘Don’t Fence Me In’ The Da Vinci Code ‘Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy’ Gladiator Glenn Miller Orchestra Man of Steel Ray McVay conductor London Concert Orchestra Mark Porter Catherine Sykes , guest Anthony Inglis conductor vocalists The Polka Dot Dolls Tickets £16.50–42.50 plus booking fee* The orchestra will perform the second Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd half of the concert in the Second World War uniforms of the US army Sun 31 Dec 7.30pm Tickets £16.50–32.50 plus booking fee* The Magic of Vienna Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd Spend New Year’s Eve enjoying the memorable music of the Strauss dynasty, whose prolific output of waltzes and polkas entertained Viennese high society throughout the 19th century. J Strauss II Audition Aria from Die Fledermaus Sieczynski Vienna City of my Dreams J Strauss II Wine, Women and Song J Strauss II The Blue Danube J Strauss I Radetzky March Johann Strauss Dancers and Orchestra in glorious costumes of the period John Rigby conductor Corinne Cowling soprano Nicky Spence tenor Tickets £19.50–44.50 plus booking fee* Promoted by Raymond Gubbay Ltd Classical Music * Booking fees Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person.

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30 Nov 2017–20 Jan2018, 7.15pm, Theatre 2 hours 55 mins/including an interval 9, 2, on 16,1.30pm 11, 21, 6, &4, Dec 30 Jan 20 121pm on only Dec Hutson andBrutus Martin title role alongside Alex Waldmann as Andrew Woodall includes cast The to define all political backstabbing. continues that story the of action thrilling Director Director power. of Season corridors the through conquering hero, but mutiny is rumbling war, from all- an returns Caesar CaesarJulius 24 Nov 2017–20 Jan2018, 7.15pm, Theatre 3 hours/including an interval 9, on 1.30pm 11, 16 &18 Nov 7pm 8Nov on only Sope Dirisu talent rising directs Angus Jackson Director Season season. Rome the opens production visceral this feet, its find to struggling city-state anew in Set Rome. of republic the of emergence the to Coriolanus battlefield, the of sweat the in revels that play war A full-throttle Coriolanus 6–18 Nov 2017, 7.15pm, Theatre Rome plays A thrilling season of Shakespeare’s Rome MMXVII Royal Shakespeare Company 6 Nov 2017–20 Jan 2018 3 hours 20 mins/including an interval &18 28Dec 23, Jan on 1.30pm 7pm 12 on only Dec and Khan Iqbal end. tragic their to lovers the leads Egypt, of Queen Cleopatra, mistress his with seduction decadent of alife but power, of heights the reached has Antony Following Caesar’s assassination, Mark Antony Cleopatra & Antony Byrne Angus Jackson Josette Simon Josette directs in the title roles. roles. title the in in the title role. role. title the in steers the the steers transports us back back us transports as Cassius.

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7 Dec 2017–19 Jan 2018, 7.15pm, Theatre Full performance schedule, casting and creative teams, details on Weekend Labs, post-show Titus Andronicus talks, BSL, audio-described and captioned The decay of Rome reaches vicious depths performances of the Rome season can be found in Shakespeare’s most brutal and bloody on the website: barbican.org.uk/Rome_MMXVII play. As the body count piles up, the Presented by the Barbican tragedy poses questions about the nature of sexuality, family, class and society. The Royal Shakespeare Company is supported using public funding by Arts Council Blanche McIntyre directs David Troughton in the title role of the epic The RSC Acting Companies are generously conclusion of the Rome season. supported by the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and the Kovner Foundation 7pm only on 14 Dec 1.30pm on 13 Jan 3 hours/including an interval £10–57.50 plus booking fee* A limited number of premium seats priced at £75 are also available*

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23 Nov–2 Dec 7.45pm, The Pit 8 & 9 Dec, 7.45pm, Theatre The Oxford Samuel Beckett Transpose: Barbican Theatre Trust Award 2017 Take a theatrical journey with artists from the Mars.tarrab queer and trans communities as they share poetry, music, video art and storytelling with ROLLER a revelatory quality. Curated by and featuring Mars.tarrab have risked life and limb to bring CN Lester, an activist, author and singer- you an energy-packed performance. They’re songwriter. getting their skates on in a bid to understand 1 hour 30 mins/no interval what roller derby can reveal about female competition, ageing, economics and belonging. Age guidance 16+ (contains adult themes) 1 hour 10 mins/no interval £15 plus booking fee* Age guidance 14+ UK £18 plus booking fee* These performances and the post-show talk are BSL interpreted UK 8 Dec Wed 29 Nov Post-show talk BSL-interpreted performance Free to same-day ticket holders Thu 30 Nov Relaxed performance 9 Dec, 4pm, Cinema 3 Listings Audiences are welcome to move around A screening of Free CeCe and make noise during the performance. See page 18 and website for further details See website for further details Presented and co-produced by the Barbican 41 13–23 Dec, 10.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm Tue 19 Dec, 3.30pm daily, The Pit Targeted relaxed performance All performances are relaxed but this will the egg and Travelling Light be particularly suited to those with learning

Theatre Company disabilities, sensory or communication needs Dec 2017 Snow Mouse Presented by the Barbican Watch two friends embark on an adventure in a Co-produced by the egg, Bath and Travelling Light magical forest full of play, puppetry and music Company in this enchanting tale for babies and the very young to enjoy with their families. Snow Mouse combines an endearing puppet, one performer, lots of giggles and a tactile set perfect for audiences to come and sit close to the action. No performance on 18 Dec 40 mins/no interval Age guidance: 3 months–3 years * Booking fees £7.50 (baby/child), £8.50 (adult) plus booking fee* Booking fee per online transaction £3; £4 by phone. No fee when tickets are booked in person. UK The booking fee may be reduced for certain events Theatre & Dance

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