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Queen Elizabeth Hall whiskies alongside cocktails and food Saturday 24 May to Sunday 1 June specially designed to pair with these two MAKING MEDALS What’s On Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road new single malts. 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm ; included in www.southbankcentre.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/15606 admission price Friday 2 to Monday 5 May Unicorn Theatre Mark the 70th Anniversary of D-Day on May STREETS OF SPAIN board HMS Belfast. Learn about the role Festival Village; 12 noon-6pm; free 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 it played on that important day and to Comprehensive local listings Stalls from Barcelona’s world famous www.unicorntheatre.com make your own medal to commemorate La Boqueri food market will be at Thursday 15 May the sailors, soldiers and airmen who took Southbank Centre, along with Campo THE ART OF BEING BRILLIANT part in Operation Overlord - the largest Viejo’s pop-up bars. naval, air and land operation in history.  10am-1pm & 2pm-5pm; free Special events Full info at se1.net/15559 The Mayor of Southwark hosts a unique This drop-in plaster casting activity is Downings Roads Moorings Red Cross Garden half-day workshop on personal and suitable for all ages.  Mill Street Redcross Way T 020 7403 3393 community transformation with best- Full info at se1.net/15610 www.bost.org.uk selling author Andy Cope. ‘The Art of St Mary Magdalen Sunday 11 May Being Brilliant’ provides an antidote GARDEN OPEN DAY Friday 2 May to the fast-paced world that typifies Bermondsey Street T 020 7357 0984 www.stmarysbermondsey.org.uk 2pm-5.30pm; £3.50 (children free) MAY DAY FESTIVAL modern life. Using cutting edge research, A chance to visit SE1’s amazing floating 3.30pm-5.30pm; free Andy Cope will share some of the Join Bankside Open Spaces Trust Wednesday 28 May gardens as part of the National Gardens ‘secrets’ of positive psychology, focussing for maypole dancing, face painting, BACH TO BABY Scheme. Home-made cakes and teas on learning new habits of thinking and 10.30am (coffee from 10am); £10 storytelling, crafts and more. behaviour that will sustain personal available.  (children free) Full info at se1.net/15558 and community ‘brilliance’. Ultimately,  Bach to Baby is brought to you by award- Full info at se1.net/15597 the aim of this highly entertaining and Thursday 29 May winning concert pianist and local mum Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park engaging workshop is to rejuvenate and CROSS BONES BARDS Miaomiao Yu. Studies show classical Lambeth Road inspire, with the impact felt at home, 6pm-8pm; free music can bring tremendous benefits to A free, open-air performance in Red at work, and in the wider community. Friday 9 May Andy Cope is a qualified teacher, author young children, but the idea is simply to Cross Garden, ending at the gates of bring adults and kids of all ages together VICTORY DAY ACT OF Cross Bones Graveyard. Hosted by the and learning junkie. He is currently for a lively morning of music. Suitable for REMEMBRANCE ‘Bard of Southwark’ John Constable, studying happiness, flourishing, and Soviet War Memorial; 11am with singer-songwriter Nigel of positivity as part of a PhD thesis. His both under 5s and under 95s Participants in the Act of Remembrance Bermondsey, poet John Smallshaw research feeds into this workshop which  Full info at se1.net/14631 will include a representative of the - and you. Bring a poem or song has been delivered to rave reviews all Mayor of Southwark; the Russian inspired by Cross Bones burial ground over the world. The Mayor is offering ambassador and ambassadors and or your experience of Southwark. The 100 free places for Southwark residents Public meetings representatives from other CIS embassies; performance begins at 6.30pm prompt; in both the morning (10am to 1pm) Bankside Community Space British and Russian Second World War please arrive 6pm to book a spot, or drop and afternoon (2pm to 5pm) sessions. veterans; standard bearers from UK in any time to enjoy the show. Age 16 To reserve your free place on either 18 Great Guildford Street T 020 7928 3998 veterans organisations, the Drill Squad and over. workshop contact Daisy Coleman at www.betterbankside.co.uk/services/bankside- community-space of the London Nautical School and other  Southwark Council on 020 7525 4985 or individuals and organisations supporting Full info at se1.net/15556 Setchell TRA Hall [email protected]. Monday 19 May the memorial. The short ceremony  will include brief addresses from key Hazel Way Full info at se1.net/15599 BANKSIDE RESIDENTS’ FORUM: participants, the sounding of the Last Waterloo Millennium Green OPEN FORUM Saturday 10 May 6.30pm Post and a two minute silence. Waterloo Road  JUMBLE SALE  Full info at se1.net/15578 2pm-4pm; 20p Full info at se1.net/15552 Wednesday 14 May Kirkaldy Testing Museum Bric a brac, clothes, books. Royal Festival Hall WATERLOO GREEN THUMBS DAY  Belvedere Road T 0871 663 2501 99 Full info at se1.net/15580 10am-2pm; free www.southbankcentre.co.uk www.testingmuseum.org.uk South Bank Observation Point Launching Bankside Open Spaces Trust’s new micro-volunteering sessions for local Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 May near Gabriel’s Wharf, Upper Ground Thursday 15 May OPEN DAYS workers. Spend half an hour in your SE1 UNITED ANNUAL GENERAL Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 May lunch break gardening in Waterloo’s 10am-4pm; free MEETING MALAYSIA KITCHEN SPRING green oasis. Light refreshments provided. An extra chance to visit this unusual MARKET Violet Room; 6.30pm museum in addition to the regular  10am-7pm; free Full info at se1.net/15557 AGM of local youth charity. SE1 United monthly Sunday opening. Guided 12 Malaysian restaurants from across is looking now for new trustees or tours at 11am, 12 noon, 2pm and 3pm. the UK gather to showcase the very best volunteers willing to share knowledge The museum is looking for support as in Malaysian cuisine, selling everything Family & children and skills in business planning, its lease has expired and its future is from Beef Rendang and Chicken Satay HMS Belfast fundraising, human resources and law. uncertain. through to delicious Laksa. There will If you have the above skills and are  Morgans Lane, Tooley Street 020 7940 6300 Full info at se1.net/15598 also be an opportunity to purchase hmsbelfast.iwm.org.uk interested in helping local young people, Potters Fields Park Malaysian ingredients to recreate contact [email protected] authentic dishes at home. Saturday 24 to Sunday 25 May  Full info at se1.net/15629 Tooley Street  D-DAY FAMILY WEEKEND www.pottersfields.co.uk Full info at se1.net/15560 South Bank & Waterloo Neighbours South Bank Riverside Walkway On 6 June 1944, HMS Belfast reportedly Sunday 4 May fired the first shots on D-Day, the most www.sowneighbours.org DAYS OF POLAND The Queen’s Walk near Gabriel’s Wharf significant campaign fought by the 1pm-8pm; free western Allies during the Second World Tuesday 13 May Thursday 15 May IS SOUTH BANK AND WATERLOO Family friendly festival featuring SINGLETON WHISKY NIGHT War. To mark the 70th anniversary of traditional and contemporary Polish this historic event, families are invited to CHANGING FOR THE BETTER OR MARKET WORSE? music, arts and cuisine. The programme 7pm-10.30pm; £10 (book online) take part in a weekend of D-Day themed includes a variety of attractions for The world’s first night market dedicated activities on board HMS Belfast. Receive 6pm-7.30pm; booking essential at www. children and adults, including face to discovering the flavours of single malt your mission as you board the ship and sowneighbours.org painting, giant bubble shows, Polish whisky. The market will celebrate the search for clues around the ship to learn Debate organised by the group national dances and live music including release of two new expressions from The about HMS Belfast’s role in the D-Day preparing a neighbourhood plan for the prominent Polish musicians. Singleton: Tailfire and Sunray. Guests will campaign. South Bank and Waterloo.  Full info at se1.net/15577 be treated to an exclusive tasting of the  Full info at se1.net/15617  Full info at se1.net/15663

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Waterloo Action Centre members £1 Lecture by Sadie Watson of Museum of 14 Baylis Road T 020 7261 1404 London Archaeology. A Southwark & Church services Comedy www.waterlooactioncentre.co.uk Lambeth Archaelogical Society event. Southwark Cathedral The Miller Wednesday 21 May  WATERLOO COMMUNITY Full info at se1.net/14576 London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 96 Snowsfields DEVELOPMENT GROUP GENERAL Southwark Cathedral www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk www.themiller.co.uk MEETING London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 Monday 19 May Friday 2 May 7pm www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Regular public meeting of the group that THOMAS CURE COMMEMORATION HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB monitors planning and development 5.30pm 8pm-10pm; free Tuesday 27 May issues in Waterloo. Hear from the The annual Thomas Cure Tonight featuring improv course developers and help to shape the A LONELY SOCIETY: IS THIS OUR commemoration is observed today showcases, with lots of fun people community’s response. FATE? ahead of the 24 May which this year performing in their first ever improv Garry Weston Library; 7pm-8.30pm; free falls on a Saturday. The service will take  Full info at se1.net/15253 show. A public foum organised by the the form of Choral Evensong. Present  cathedral’s Justice and Development will be office holders of the United St Full info at se1.net/15495 Saviour’s Charity founded by Thomas Group. Panellists: Dame Elizabeth Saturday 3 May Talks & literature Cure in Elizabeth I’s reign. A wreath will HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB Bankside Community Space Hoodless, former executive director, be laid on his tomb at the conclusion of Community Service Volunteers; Denise 8pm; £5 18 Great Guildford Street T 020 7928 3998 the service. www.betterbankside.co.uk Hudson Lawson, head of online services  Improv comedy club featuring a selection for the Houses of Parliament and Canon Full info at se1.net/15543 of the best improv groups in London. Thursday 29 May Roger Royle, broadcaster and canon Wednesday 21 May Tonight featuring DNR with Dylan HEALING CHURCH BURN emeritus of Southwark Cathedral. CHORAL EVENSONG Emery (Grand Theft Impro) and Ruth 7pm-9pm; free  3.30pm Bratt (Showstoppers), and Music Box the Join the Southwark LGBT Network for an Full info at se1.net/15582 Service broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. improvised comedy musical. evening with Reverend Jide Macaulay,   LGBT Minister from the House of the Friday 30 May Full info at se1.net/15432 Full info at se1.net/15612 THE BOOK OF FORGIVING WITH Rainbow Fellowship to discuss church Friday 9 May burn - the experience of rejection by MPHO TUTU HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB religious institutions and individuals Garry Weston Library; 6.30pm; £10 from Guided walks 8pm; free when an individual first identifies http://book-of-forgiving.eventbrite.co.uk Church of the Precious Blood Improv comedy club featuring a selection as lesbian, gay, bisexual or trans - and An evening with Revd Mpho Tutu, how to find supportive spaces and O’Meara Street T 020 7407 3951 of the best improv groups in London. daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, www.preciousblood.org.uk communities in which to celebrate faith Tonight featuring The RH Experience as she discusses The Book of Forgiving, and sexuality. Tuesday 13 May with special guests from across the written jointly with her father.  Full info at se1.net/15601 CATHOLIC HISTORY WALK London improv scene.   Breast Cancer Care Full info at se1.net/15608 6.30pm; free Full info at se1.net/15613 Meet outside the Church of the Most 5-13 Great Suffolk Street Stamford Street Apartments Saturday 10 May www.breastcancercare.org.uk Precious Blood. Walk led by writer 127 Stamford Street Joanna Bogle. HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB 8pm; £5 Thursday 15 May  Full info at se1.net/15596 INFORMATION SESSION FOR Monday 12 May Improv comedy club featuring a selection WOMEN AFFECTED BY BREAST THE HISTORY AND TECHNOLOGY OF South Bank & Waterloo Neighbours of the best improv groups in London. CANCER CLIMBING www.sowneighbours.org Tonight featuring The Inflatables, 10am-1pm; free; booking essential 0845 7pm; £10 from http://se1.info/1iwNunb Breaking and Entering, and Glitch the 077 1895 or [email protected] Saturday 10 May Improvised Puppet Show. Rock climber, mountaineering instructor, DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOUTH Leading support charity Breast Cancer climbing coach photographer, writer and  Care is holding an information session BANK AND WATERLOO: STATION Full info at se1.net/15614 avid blogger Mark Reeves is leading the in South London for women affected AREA Friday 16 May by breast cancer. This session offers way in the science of climbing better. 2pm-4pm; booking essential at HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB  the opportunity to hear from Dr Terry Full info at se1.net/15611 www.sowneighbours.org 8pm; £5 Priestman, oncologist and author of The ‘Walkshop’ organised by the group Improv comedy club featuring a selection The Old King’s Head preparing a neighbourhood plan for Cancer Survivor’s Handbook. Participants of the best improv groups in London. will learn about how decisions about 45-49 Borough High Street T 020 7407 1550 the South Bank and Waterloo. A tour Tonight featuring All Made Up and Do treatment options for primary breast www.theoldkingshead.uk.com of some of the development sites and a cancer are made, the different breast talk about what each is trying to achieve Not Adjust Your Stage. cancer drugs available, the potential Thursday 8 May - are they right for the area? What does  Full info at se1.net/15615 benefits and also side effects and some MUSEUM IN THE PUB: the community get in return for the Saturday 17 May possible ways to manage them. These development? How will construction be THE PACIFIC COLLECTION HOOPLA IMPROV COMEDY CLUB interactive sessions have an informal 8pm; £2.50 (conc £1.50); reservations managed? atmosphere and will give participants  8pm; £5 the chance to hear from an expert [email protected] Full info at se1.net/15665 Improv comedy club featuring a selection A chance to view a selection of items speaker and to ask questions about the Wednesday 21 May of the best improv groups in London. subject. There will also be the chance to from the South Sea collection of DEVELOPMENTS IN THE SOUTH Tonight featuring The Science of Living meet other women from the local area Southwark’s and BANK AND WATERLOO: Things and Brighton’s award winning and find out more about the wide range an accompanying talk by Rosanna BLACKFRIARS ROAD AREA troupe The Maydays. of support services offered by Breast Raymond, an expert on the subject 6pm-7.30pm; booking essential at  Full info at se1.net/15616 Cancer Care. Participants are welcome to who will bring these items to life. To www.sowneighbours.org bring friends or family members. ‘Walkshop’ organised by the group Waterloo East Theatre  avoid disappointment it is advisable Full info at se1.net/15603 to book in advance by emailing preparing a neighbourhood plan for the Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 New Cut Housing Co-Operative Hall [email protected] Places South Bank and Waterloo. Blackfriars www.waterlooeast.co.uk Road is due to be transformed through 106 The Cut will be reserved until 7.45pm, then development in the next ten years. Monday 5 to Saturday 10 May remaining spaces will be allotted Tuesday 13 May This event will consider some of the ALAN CARR: A WORK IN PROGRESS NEW DISCOVERIES FROM AN on a first come first served basis until development sites and encourage 8pm (no show 7 May); £10 OLD SITE: EXCAVATIONS AT the room is full. A South East London participants to consider what each is Alan will be trying out material for his BLOOMBERG PLACE Folklore Society event. trying to achieve and their impacts. forthcoming UK tour. 7.30pm (refreshments from 7pm); non-  Full info at se1.net/15405  Full info at se1.net/15666  Full info at se1.net/15630

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Full info at se1.net/15347 www.1901artsclub.com Father and Daughter duo Ruth and  Full info at se1.net/15625 National Theatre Roger Montgomery, bring a new and Thursday 15 May St Thomas’ Hospital South Bank T 020 7452 3000 exciting programme of tuneful flute RENEE REZNEK www.nationaltheatre.org.uk and guitar compositions by Roger plus Westminster Bridge Road T 020 7188 7188 7.30pm; £18 (conc £16) arrangements of film music by John www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk South African born pianist Renee Reznek Until Sunday 11 May Williams, the tango king, Astor Piazzolla has earned a reputation for brilliant Monday 12 May A TASTE OF HONEY and the Beatles. NATALIE COYLE performances of contemporary music.  Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£50 This recital includes works by Satie and Full info at se1.net/15651 Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free Directed by Bijan Sheibani. Written by The classically trained soprano joined Debussy as well as first performances Southwark Cathedral Shelagh Delaney when she was nineteen, of two new works written by Neo Classic BRIT Award winners BLAKE at London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 the end of their 2012 UK tour. She has this is one of the great defining and Muyanga, a celebrated South African www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk composer, and Sadie Harrison, an performed several times at Wembley taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s, offering an explosive celebration of acclaimed Australian composer living in Wednesday 14 May Stadium to sold-out crowds of over the UK. LET THE TRUMPET SOUND 85,000 - and most recently for England the vulnerabilities and strengths of the at the Rugby League World Cup, where female spirit in a deprived and restless  Full info at se1.net/15619 7.30pm; £15 to £28 from 0333 666 3366 A candlelit concert by London she sang the National Anthem. Natalie is world. Thursday 29 May Patron of Breathe.  MAXIM RYSANOV: HATTORI Concertante. Programme includes work Full info at se1.net/15066 by Bach, Handel, Albinoni and Purcell.  Full info at se1.net/15656 FOUNDATION 21ST BIRTHDAY Monday 5 to Saturday 24 May RECITAL Featuring Simon Desbruslais (trumpet) Monday 19 May 7pm; £15 including pre concert drink and Emily Armour (soprano). BOWJANGLES YELLOW FACE The Hattori Foundation celebrates  Full info at se1.net/15594 Central Hall; 1pm-2pm; free The Shed; Times vary; £12/£20 21 years assisting and encouraging Bowjangles combine virtuosic string Tony Award-winner and Pulitzer Prize Friday 16 May exceptionally talented young musicians quartet performance with classy vocals, finalist David Henry Hwang explores the INDIANA WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY with series of recitals from their hilarious comedy and energetic dance impact race has had on the East Asian CHORALE prestigious alumni, each with a special moves in shows which hark back to the experience in America. 6.50pm; free pre-recital talk. Violist Maxim Rysanov good old days of Music Hall Variety,  performs Schubert, Schumann and Traditional, sacred and spiritual music by when talent was truly multidimensional. Full info at se1.net/15632 Prokofiev with a pre-concert talk by an American university choir. Fun, clever, full of pop & classical hits &  Friday 23 to Monday 26 May pianist Gordon Back, Hattori Foundation Full info at se1.net/15592 satire. THE ANIMALS AND CHILDREN Music Advisor and Artistic Director of the  Friday 23 May Full info at se1.net/15657 TOOK TO THE STREETS Menuhin Competition  AFTERNOON CONCERT: FURMAN Lyttelton Theatre; Times vary; Full info at se1.net/15620 SINGERS £15/£20/£25 Guy’s Hospital 3.15pm-4pm; free Theatre Following two sell-out runs at the Great Maze Pond T 020 7188 7188 The Furman Singers from Furman College Doon Street Car Park National theatre, the internationally www.guysandstthomas.nhs.uk in South Carolina USA, directed by Hugh Upper Ground acclaimed show by award-winning Ferguson Floyd, presents the grand www.fueltheatre.com company 1927 returns to the Lyttelton Wednesday 7 May finale to its tour of the British Isles. for a further six performances. LITSA TUNNAH WITH PETR The programme by the 40 mixed-voice Friday 30 May to Saturday 28 June LIMONOV university choir includes work by William THE ROOF  Full info at se1.net/15634 Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free Byrd and Anton Bruckner. Mon-Sat 9.30pm (also Fri/Sat 7pm); Litsa Tunnah is quickly establishing a  £29.50 (conc £19.50) Until Wednesday 2 July reputation as a virtuoso concert violinist. Full info at se1.net/15460 Brand new 360-degree performance, KING LEAR Since making her concerto debut at St John’s Waterloo directed by David Rosenberg (co-founder Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £12-£50 the age of 12 Litsa has appeared as 73 Waterloo Road T 020 7633 9819 of Shunt) and Frauke Requardt, their Directed by Sam Mendes with Simon soloist with major orchestras including www.stjohnswaterloo.org third collaboration following Electric Russell Beale in the title role. An aged Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Hotel (also a Fuel production) and Thursday 1 May king decides to divide his kingdom Kensington Sinfonia, St Bartholomew Motor Show. In a purpose-built venue between his three daughters, according Chamber Orchestra, London RUSH HOUR CONCERT from set designer of the 2012 Summer to which of them is most eloquent in International Orchestra and the Royal 6pm; free Paralympics opening ceremony Jon praising him. His favourite, Cordelia, says Philharmonic Orchestra. See and hear the orchestra in a new light Bausor, audiences, standing throughout, in a special ‘in the round’ performance of nothing.  Full info at se1.net/15648 will experience the breathless mix of Beethoven’s Symphony No 6. Sit by your 360 degree hair-trigger movement,  Full info at se1.net/15067 Wednesday 14 May favourite section, watch the interactions influenced by free running with ALEXANDER KARPEYEV within the orchestra during a live intimate, three dimensional music Until Thursday 3 July Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free performance, and feel more involved and sound by Dave Price via individual THE SILVER TASSIE Russian pianist Alexander Karpeyev than ever before in symphonic music. headphones. Lyttelton Theatre; In repertoire; £15-£50 has been a major prize winner at many  Full info at se1.net/15623  Full info at se1.net/15627 Sean O’Casey’s powerful, huge and national and international competitions. rarely performed anti-war play of 1928 He makes a welcome return to Guy’s Thursday 8 May Menier Chocolate Factory displays a jagged madness that belies Hospital to perform a mixed programme RUSH HOUR CONCERT 51 Southwark Street T 020 7378 1713 including pieces by Medtner and 6pm; free www.menierchocolatefactory.com its Dublin tenement setting and gives Schumann. Hear Beethoven’s Piano Quintet and full expression to the horror and waste  Piano Concerto No 2 with Southbank Until Friday 23 May of war. Full info at se1.net/15649 Sinfonia and pianist Melvyn Tan. FAME: NOT THE MUSICAL: DAVID  Wednesday 21 May BADDIEL Full info at se1.net/15635  Full info at se1.net/15624 YURI SABATINI WITH KIRSTIN Mon-Sat 8pm; £22.50-£30 Saturday 31 May to Saturday 2 August SHARPIN AND NADIA LASSERSON Saturday 10 May Fame: our society is obsessed with it - HOTEL Atrium 3; 1pm-2pm; free WESTMINSTER PHILHARMONIC but who will talk honestly about what The Shed; Times vary; £12/£20 The beautiful tones of Italian tenor Yuri ORCHESTRA it’s really like? David Baddiel does in Sabatini will captivate you as he teams 7.30pm; £10 Fame: Not The Musical. From accidentally A new play by Polly Stenham, directed up with fabulous soprano Kirstin Sharpin Programme includes work by Glinka, stealing the spotlight at Russell Brand’s by Maria Aberg. A tropical thriller, where and world class pianist Nadia Lasserson Schubert, Strauss and Beethoven. wedding, to realising Andrew Lloyd nothing is quite what it seems, Hotel to offer you a variety of popular operatic Conductor: Jonathan Butcher. Webber cannot tell him apart from Ben explores the cost of integrity. arias and show tunes as well as some  Full info at se1.net/15622 Elton, Baddiel takes aim at himself,  Full info at se1.net/15633

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A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS  sisters Polly Wyeth and Silda Grauman Full info at se1.net/15472  Full info at se1.net/15637 Olivier Theatre; In repertoire; £15-£50 in the UK premiere of Jon Robin Baitz’s Alan Ayckbourn’s riotous exposure of acclaimed play directed by Lindsay Wednesday 7 to Saturday 31 May Friday 9 to Thursday 15 May entrepreneurial greed returns to the Posner. The first play in a new season ACE OF CLUBS TRANSCENDENCE National where it premiered in 1987. of productions which will be presented Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat/Sun 2.30pm; £25 Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9  in-the-round at The Old Vic. This is a The Union Theatre is transformed into (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) Full info at se1.net/15525 a 1940s nightclub for its revival of the Johnny Depp and Rebecca Hall star in Network Theatre fierce and funny drama deftly exploring family politics, love, loss and redemption. classic Noel Coward musical. this intelligent sci-fi drama about the 246a Lower Road Full review at www.London-SE1.co.uk  Full info at se1.net/15561 perils of trying to preserve a life at any www.networktheatre.org  Waterloo East Theatre costs. Director: Wally Pfister. Full info at se1.net/15410  Until Saturday 3 May The Rose Playhouse Brad Street T 020 7928 0060 Full info at se1.net/15638 THE ART OF COARSE ACTING 56 Park Street T 020 7261 9565 www.waterlooeast.co.uk Friday 9 to Thursday 15 May 7.30pm; £12 from www.rosetheatre.org.uk THE DOUBLE A quartet of short comedies adapted Tuesday 13 May to Sunday 1 June POSITIVE Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 from the book of the same name. Tuesday 6 to Saturday 24 May (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9)  A TRICK TO CATCH THE OLD ONE Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 4pm; £15 (conc £13) Full info at se1.net/15602 Shaun Kitchener’s hit Fringe Clever, entertaining black comedy with Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sun 18 May 3pm; £12 Shakespeare’s Globe play about HIV returns for a three-week Jesse Eisenberg and Mia Wasikowska, (conc £10; resident £9) run. about Simon James; a young, nerdy New Globe Walk T 020 7401 9919 A comedy by Thomas Middleton. www.shakespearesglobe.com  office worker suddenly threatened by a  Full info at se1.net/15551 Full info at se1.net/15631 new colleague, James Simonhis double. Until Monday 19 May Young Vic Director: Richard Ayoade. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING Saturday 31 May  SHAKESPEARE / MARLOWE 66 The Cut T 020 7928 6363 Full info at se1.net/15639 In repertoire; £5-£38 www.youngvic.org Small-scale touring production directed READATHON Friday 16 to Thursday 22 May by Max Webster. 10am-10pm; £10 per hour from www. Until Saturday 3 May A THOUSAND TIMES GOODNIGHT wegottickets.com OH MY SWEET LAND  Full info at se1.net/15528 Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 A different play by William Shakespeare The Maria; Mon-Sat 7.45pm; Wed & Sat (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) Until Sunday 13 July or Christopher Marlowe will be read 2.45pm; £19.50, £10 Juliette Binoche stars in a gripping TITUS ANDRONICUS on the hour, every hour by professional The story of one woman’s journey back drama concerning Rebecca, a top war actors to raise funds for the project In repertoire; £5-£42 to Syria as she searches for a lost love photographer, forced to choose between to excavate the remaining portion of The Globe revisits Lucy Bailey’s 2006 amidst war and bloody violence. work and family after a traumatic the Rose and create a new permanent  production with music by Django Bates. Full info at se1.net/15524 incident in Afghanistan. Director: Erik  performance space above the site of Full info at se1.net/15527 Until Saturday 7 June Poppe. Bankside’s first playhouse.  Saturday 17 May to Sunday 24 August  A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE Full info at se1.net/15640 Full info at se1.net/15628 Mon-Sat 7.30pm (Wed & Sat Matinee ANTONY & CLEOPATRA Friday 23 to Thursday 29 May Unicorn Theatre 2.30pm); £10-£35 In repertoire; £5-£42 THE WIND RISES 147 Tooley Street T 020 7645 0560 The visionary Ivo van Hove directs a Eve Best takes the female lead in this Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 www.unicorntheatre.com new production of Arthur Miller’s tragic production directed by Jonathan Munby, (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) with Phil Daniels playing the role of masterpiece. Friday 16 to Saturday 17 May  Japanese animated film about the life of Enobarbus. CHALK ABOUT Full info at se1.net/14889 Jino Horikoshi; the man who designed  Full info at se1.net/15391 Times vary; £16 (conc £13; under-21s fighter planes for the Second World War Southwark Playhouse £10) air force. A playful, funny and sometimes moving Cinema  77-85 Newington Causeway 020 7407 0234 Full info at se1.net/15641 www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk look at how we see ourselves and others, Roxy Bar & Screen Friday 16 to Thursday 29 May featuring dance, conversation and one 128-132 Borough High Street T 020 7407 4057 Until Saturday 3 May perfect scene containing everything you www.roxybarandscreen.com FRANK THREE SISTERS could wish for Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 Mon-Sat 8pm; £18 (conc £16)  Full info at se1.net/15645 Thursday 8 May (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) Anya Reiss’s new version of Anton 7 WONDERS Charismatic film, based on Jon Ronson’s Chekhov’s play. Thursday 22 to Friday 23 May 7.30pm; min donation £8 memoirs, of a young musician swept up O SNAP http://uk.virginmoneygiving.  Full info at se1.net/15522 by, and in awe of, a strange musician Times vary; £16 (conc £13; under-21s com/7wondersinaidofmedicinema who wears a large papier mache head Wednesday 21 to Wednesday 14 May £10) An evening of short films in aid of 24-7. JOHNNY GOT HIS GUN Choreographer Erik Kaiel brings MediCinema. A charity which installs and  The Little; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; together three young dancers to explore manages cinemas in hospitals and places Full info at se1.net/15642 £18 (conc £16) friendship, loyalty and what matters of care. Friday 30 May to Thursday 5 June UK premieres of the stage adaptation of most when you’re young.  Full info at se1.net/15607 THE TWO FACES OF JANUARY Academy Award-winning screenwriter  Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 Full info at se1.net/15646 Shortwave Cinema Dalton Trumbo’s searing World War One (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) novel. Saturday 24 to Thursday 29 May 10 Bermondsey Square T 020 7357 6845 Sixties set adaptation of Patricia  THE SECRET OF Q www.shortwavecinema.com Highsmith’s novel with Vigo Mortenson Full info at se1.net/15379 Times vary; £16 (conc £13; under-21s Friday 2 to Thursday 8 May and Kirsten Dunst. With more than a Until Saturday 17 May £10) touch of Hitchcock about it, a con DEBRIS CUPCAKES Renowned Dutch theatre company Het artist and his wife run into trouble in The Little; Mon-Sat 7.30pm; Sat 3pm; Filiaal presents a clever, playful and Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 Athens and go on the run with a young, £16 (conc £14) inventive show about health and safety (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) A laugh out loud, camp comedy about a footloose man in tow. Openworks Theatre in association with gone mad that uses cameras, puppets,  Look Left Look Right present Dennis models, and projection. group of best friends who believe they Full info at se1.net/15643 can win the Universong contest (think Kelly’s dark and ground-breaking play.  Friday 30 May to Thursday 5 June  Full info at se1.net/15647 Eurovision). Director: Eyton Fox. Full info at se1.net/15523 Union Theatre  IN SECRET Full info at se1.net/15636 Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 The Old Vic 204 Union Street T 020 7261 9876 (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) 103 The Cut T 0844 871 7628 www.uniontheatre.biz Friday 2 to Thursday 8 May www.oldvictheatre.com LOCKE English language telling of Therese Until Saturday 3 May Times vary; Mon £6; Tue/Wed/Thu £9 Raquin (the famous French novel), about Until Saturday 24 May THE BEAUTIFUL GAME (conc £8); Fri/Sat/Sun £10 (conc £9) a young wife whose head is turned by a OTHER DESERT CITIES Tue-Sat 7.30pm; Sat & Sun 2.30pm; £20 Tom Hardy stars in this taught, tense charismatic colleague of her timid, weak MonñSat 7.30pm; Wed & Sat 2.30pm; (conc £18) drama of one man and the journey he husband. £10-£53 Lotte Wakeham directs this musical by creates (in more ways than one) on a  Full info at se1.net/15644 londonse1 Some recent community website forum topics Every Monday we send out an email newsletter with the latest local news and a guide to events in the week ahead. 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Borough Road Gallery intimate interior views that invite you to Creed. enter these spaces.  Full info at se1.net/14887 London South Bank University, 103 Borough  Exhibitions Road T 020 7815 5737 Full info at se1.net/15277 Jerwood Space Anise Gallery www.boroughroadgallery.co.uk Eames Fine Art 171 Union Street T 020 7654 0171 Wed-Fri 1pm-5pm; Sat 12 noon-5pm; 13a Shad Thames T 020 7403 9938 58 Bermondsey Street T 020 7993 3010 www.jerwoodspace.co.uk www.anisegallery.co.uk free www.eamesfineart.com Mon-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat & Sun Thu-Sun 11am-5pm; free Tue, Wed & Fri 11am-6pm; Thu 10am-3pm; free Friday 16 May to Saturday 26 July 11am-8pm; Sat 11am-4pm; Sunday 4 to Sunday 25 May RESEARCHING THE ARCHIVE: FIVE Wednesday 14 May to Sunday 22 June SOCIETY OF ARCHITECTURAL ARTISTS FROM THE BOROUGH Thursday 1 to Sunday 25 May JERWOOD ENCOUNTERS: TTTT ILLUSTRATION EXHIBITION Learn about some of the experiences ROSS LOVEDAY: LAND LINES TTTT responds to recent developments and influences that shaped the careers Technology, skills and styles spanning 2D Solo exhibition of new work. and concerns amongst artists who are of artists Dennis Creffield, Cliff Holden, illustration, 3D physical modelmaking  exploring sculpture and screen-based Edna Mann, Dorothy Mead and Miles Full info at se1.net/15566 and photography. practices in new forms and materialities. Richmond. Fashion & Textile Museum   Full info at se1.net/15604  Full info at se1.net/14984 Full info at se1.net/15567 83 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 8664 Llewellyn Alexander Fine Paintings Architecture Foundation Contemporary Applied Arts Gallery www.ftmlondon.org 124-126 The Cut T 020 7620 1322 136-148 Tooley Street T 020 7084 6767 Exhibitions Tue-Sat 11am-6pm; Sun 89 Southwark Street T 020 7436 2344 www.lafp.co.uk www.architecturefoundation.org.uk 11am-5pm; £8 (conc £5.50); under-12s www.caa.org.uk free Mon-Sat 10am-7.30pm; free Tue-Sat 12 noon-6pm; free Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 11am-5pm; free Until Saturday 17 May Thursday 1 to Thursday 29 May Until Saturday 17 May Until Sunday 1 June PAMELA KAY & ROBERT WELLS LIGA, SPACE FOR ARCHITECTURE, ARTIST TEXTILES: PICASSO TO EMMANUEL COOPER OBE 1938- WARHOL Pamela Kay’s oil paintings depicting still MEXICO CITY 2012: A RETROSPECTIVE This exhibition traces the history of life, flowers and interiors are exhibited Site-specific exhibition installation Dr Emmanuel Cooper’s contribution 20th century art in textiles and includes alongside Robert Wells’ paintings of showcasing the work of a selected to the world of ceramics was hugely includes work by artists such as Salvador London architecture and the British emerging Latin American architecture significant. Dali, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Joan countryside. practice.    Full info at se1.net/15533 Miro and Andy Warhol. Full info at se1.net/15137 Full info at se1.net/14651 Design Museum  Menier Gallery Bankside Gallery Full info at se1.net/15158 Shad Thames T 0870 909 9009 Florence Nightingale Museum Menier Chocolate Factory T 020 7407 3222 48 Hopton Street T 020 7928 7521 www.designmuseum.org www.meniergallery.co.uk St Thomas’ Hospital T 020 7620 0374 www.banksidegallery.com Daily 10am-5.45pm (last admission Mon-Sat 10am-6pm; free Daily 11am-6pm; free 5.15pm); £10 (conc £9; students 6); www.florence-nightingale.co.uk Under 12s free Daily 10am-5pm; £5.80 (conc £4.80, Until Friday 2 May Until Monday 5 May family £16) VISIONS & RECOLLECTIONS: BODY LANGUAGE BY TONY HEATH Until Sunday 4 May PRUNELLA CLOUGH & KEITH Intimate and challenging body positions IN THE MAKING Until Sunday 26 October VAUGHAN explore and celebrate the variety of This exhibition, curated for the Design THE HOSPITAL IN THE OATFIELD:  THE ART OF NURSING IN THE FIRST Full info at se1.net/15448 emotions generated by a variety of Museum by Edward Barber and Jay WORLD WAR poses. The artist’s unusual flesh tones, Osgerby, captures over twenty objects Wednesday 7 to Saturday 17 May Honouring the inspirational work of strength of line and emphasis on volume mid-manufacture, putting the aesthetic FROM NORTH TO SOUTH: CAROLYN nurses in war-torn France. express his interpretation of the model’s of the unfinished centre stage. STAFFORD  body language.  Full info at se1.net/14990 Full info at se1.net/15263 100 paintings, drawings and prints .   Full info at se1.net/15270 Until Sunday 22 June Full info at se1.net/15570 HELLO MY NAME IS PAUL SMITH Southbank Centre T 020 7921 0813 More London Riverside Friday 9 May to Saturday 7 June www.southbankcentre.co.uk/hayward RE ORIGINAL PRINTS In a career spanning over forty years, Tooley Street Daily 10am-6pm (Thu & Fri till 8pm); www.morelondon.com New works by the Royal Society of Paul Smith has become one of Britain’s foremost designers. £11 (seniors £10, students £8, under-16 Painter-Printmakers members who  £4.50; under 12 free) Thursday 1 to Saturday 31 May are some of the country’s leading Full info at se1.net/13586 SPOTLIGHT ON SUMATRA printmakers. Until Monday 25 August Until Monday 5 May Organised by the Sumatran Orangutan  Full info at se1.net/15235 DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2014 MARTIN CREED Society. The exhibition is a celebration Bargehouse Now in its seventh year, this pioneering First retrospective of British artist Martin of the breathtaking array of life found international award and exhibition Oxo Tower Wharf, Barge House Street T 020 celebrates design across seven categories: 7401 2255 Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, News you may www.coinstreet.org Graphics, Transport and Product. Daily 11am-6pm; free londonse1  Full info at se1.net/14991 community website have missed Until Sunday 15 June Wednesday 14 May to Sunday 31 August MADE IN BRUNEL 2014 DANIEL WEIL: THE ART OF DESIGN Lambeth could buy back Society calls for Exhibiting the work of graduate design, This witty and thought-provoking former council homes demolition of flyover engineering and digital media students exhibition spans Daniel Weil’s thirty years from Brunel University. Lambeth Council could buy back homes in A local group has called on Southwark’s at the forefront of design practice. political parties to back the demolition of the   Waterloo that had been sold under the right Full info at se1.net/15589 Full info at se1.net/14992 Bricklayers Arms flyover in the run-up to this Bermondsey Project to buy scheme. Drawing Room …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7553 month’s borough elections. 46 Willow Walk 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7543 bermondseyproject.com www.drawingroom.org.uk Tue-Sun 1pm-6pm (Thu 7pm); free Tue-Fri 11am-6pm; Sat 12 noon-6pm; TfL seeks sponsor for free Bakerloo line extension: OKR Friday 9 to Saturday 24 May Blackfriars traffic island THE CRISIS COMMISSION Transport for London has installed route becomes more likely Tuesday 27 May to Saturday 19 July Southwark’s Labour administration has Major new works by leading DRAWING ROOM sponsorship signs on a traffic island at the issued a tacit admission that its desire to contemporary artists including Martin Mir and her team of ten assistants will junction of Blackfriars Road and Southwark Creed, Mark Wallinger, Gavin Turk, see a future Bakerloo line extension to create a live drawing installation, using Street. George Shaw, Bill Woodrow and Richard only ‘Sharpie’ marker pens. The work will Camberwell is likely to lose out in favour of Long. be based on the architecture of London, …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7552 the rival Old Kent Road proposal.  Full info at se1.net/15532 and include expansive street scenes and …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7340 Princess visits Globe Academy Princess Beatrice visited a Southwark Irish president praises plan for school last month to talk to pupils and Science Gallery teachers about their work supporting Irish president Michael D Higgins used a children with dyslexia. speech during his state visit to the UK to …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7549 highlight Anglo-Irish collaboration on a new Science Gallery attraction. Former St Thomas’ Church to …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7538 Join our 28,000+ Twitter followers be turned into a restaurant The former church of St Thomas close Fire Brigade Museum could to London Bridge is to be turned into an stay in Road 80-cover restaurant. Bidders for the former Southwark Fire …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7548 Station and training centre site have been twitter.com/se1 asked to consider retaining the London Fire Brigade Museum as part of their plans. South Bank golden ball turns …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7535 up in Herts salvage yard A giant golden ball which previously adorned Foodbank use up 136% the roof of Sea Containers House on the A ‘food mountain’ was assembled on the South Bank has turned up in an architectural concourse of Waterloo Station on Good salvage yard in rural Hertfordshire. Friday by members of South Bank churches. …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7544 …more at www.London-SE1.co.uk/n7534 May 2014 8 WHAT’S ON VI twitter.com/se1 in se1 in the island’s rainforests, and a call to Until Sunday 21 September majority churches that are based in March 9.30am-5pm; £8 (conc £5.60; child action to save this fragile ecosystem, AS ABOVE, SO BELOW Southwark, including Liberty House in £3.40; under 5s free) the last stronghold for many critically Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri-Sat 10am-5pm; Camberwell. Until Thursday 7 August endangered species. Sun 10am-8pm ; free  Full info at se1.net/15575 Landscape designer and sculptor ART AT THE BRIDGE #5:  Full info at se1.net/15609 Daniel Lobb has created a large-scale Friday 2 May to Sunday 13 July CONNECTIONS Morley College installation. A CHRONICLE OF INTERVENTIONS Fifth exhibition to be held in 61 Westminster Bridge Road 020 7928 8501  The complicated history of foreign collaboration with Southwark Arts www.morleycollege.ac.uk Full info at se1.net/15585 intervention in Central America. Forum. Gallery Mon-Fri 11am-6pm; Thu until Southwark Cathedral  Full info at se1.net/15618  Full info at se1.net/15387 7pm; Sat enquire for details; London Bridge T 020 7367 6700 www.southwarkcathedral.org.uk Until Tuesday 7 October Until Wednesday 31 December Tuesday 20 May to Thursday 19 June Refectory Mon-Fri 8.30am-6pm; Sat & HENRI MATISSE: THE CUT-OUTS THE SIXTIES INSPIRED BY... Sun 10am-6pm; free £18 (conc £16) 26 large-scale photographic portraits of An art competition for people in part- A groundbreaking reassessment of the the people, places, events and designs time adult education, showcasing new Until Friday 30 May colourful and innovative final works of that shaped the 1960s. works inspired by exhibits in the V&A LONDON LIFE: CHARACTERS AND modern art master Henri Matisse.  PLACES Full info at se1.net/15481 collections.  Full info at se1.net/15205 Artist couple Sally Cutler and Euan Unit 24  Full info at se1.net/15289 Cunningham have created an exhibition The Embassy Tea Gallery 20 Great Guildford Street T 020 7401 2142 National Theatre of original linocuts and ink drawings 195-205 Union Street T 020 7274 7474 unit24.info South Bank T 020 7452 3000 inspired by the great city they live in - www.embassyteagallery.co.uk Mon-Wed 10am-5pm, Thu & Fri www.nationaltheatre.org.uk London. 10am-6.30pm; Foyers open Mon-Sat 9.30am-11pm; Sun  Tuesday 20 to Sunday 25 May 12 noon-6pm; free Full info at se1.net/15474 KALEIDOSCOPE Monday 12 to Thursday 22 May St Alphege 11am-6pm; free HAYDON WILLIAMS: ARTIST OF THE Until Saturday 3 May King’s Bench Street Photographs by Katy Vetch. THIRD AGE  BOTH SIDES NOW: MOMENTS Tue-Fri 2.30pm-5pm; free Full info at se1.net/15563 Photographic collages, drawings, IN AMERICAN MUSIC FROM THE The Vaults paintings and unique 3D relief works. CORBIS PHOTOGRAPHIC ARCHIVE Until Friday 23 May  A photographic celebration of 1960s A SORE HEAD: ROBERT WELCH Leake Street Full info at se1.net/15574 www.the-vaults.org singer-songwriters living in Laurel This exhibition of 25 works – hosted Vitrine Bermondsey Street Canyon and the new wave bands in by the Connect charity – documents Until Saturday 10 May 183-185 Bermondsey Street T 020 7407 6496 downtown 1970s New York the artist’s gradual recovery from a ALIENESE 24 HOUR www.vitrinegallery.co.uk  significant stroke. Holly-Anne Buck and Adam Milburn Wed-Fri 12 noon-7pm; Sat 12 noon- Full info at se1.net/15325  6pm; free Silverprint Gallery Full info at se1.net/15593 present a piece of sonic and visual Modern collagism. 120 London Road T 020 7620 0169  Until Saturday 7 June www.silverprint.co.uk Bankside T 020 7887 8888 Full info at se1.net/15626 THE PLUMBERS (HYGIENIC GAZE): Mon-Fri 9.30am-5.30pm; Sat 10am-4pm; www.tate.org.uk/modern The Wapping Project Bankside EDWIN BURDIS Sun-Thu 10am-6pm; Fri & Sat 65a Hopton Street T 020 7981 9851 New paintings, works on paper and Until Saturday 10 May 10am-10pm; free www.thewappingprojectbankside.com performance. TIM RUDMAN: TREEWORKS Tue-Sat 10-6pm (Mon by appointment);  Full info at se1.net/15571 The theme embraces the characters Until Monday 26 May free of trees, their environments, seasons RICHARD HAMILTON White Cube Bermondsey and changing appearance in different £13.10 (conc £11.30) Until Saturday 24 May 144-152 Bermondsey Street 020 7930 5373 weather conditions and at different Hamilton (1922-2011) is widely regarded EDGAR MARTINS: THE REHEARSAL www.whitecube.com times of day and night. as a founding figure of pop art, who OF SPACE & THE POETIC Wed-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12 noon-6pm; continued to experiment and innovate free  Full info at se1.net/15480 IMPOSSIBILITY TO MANAGE THE over a career of 60 years. INFINITE Siobhan Davies Studios Until Sunday 6 July  Full info at se1.net/14842  85 St George’s Road T 020 7091 9650 Full info at se1.net/15383 ANDREAS GURSKY www.siobhandavies.com Wednesday 28 May to Sunday 13 July Exhibition Gursky’s photographs frequently depict Mon-Thu 10am-8pm; Fri & Sat SUNDAY SERVICE Tower Bridge T 020 7940 3985 the landscape and structures of late 10am-5pm; Sun 10am-2pm; free Photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews www.towerbridge.org.uk capitalism. captured some of the many black April-September 10am-5.30pm; October-  Full info at se1.net/15467

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