’Cotton to Gold: The Extraordinary Collections of the Industrial North West’
On January the 31st, 2 Temple Place will be transformed into a casket for the exquisite treasures of an extraordinary group of Lancashire magnates. As the cotton mills boomed, bringing development and deprivation hand in hand, this group of...
2 Temple Place, London WC2R 3BD
Saturday 31 Jan 2015 to Tuesday 31 Mar 2015
Circo do Guanabara – Special Carnival Edition
Dance like you’re in Rio de Janeiro at the 2015 Carnival at Guanabara, a week-long festival of Brazilian music and dance at one of the hottest London clubs. Whether you’re a carnival queen or you’ve never even seen a samba, head down to Guanabara...
Guanabara, Parker Street, London, WC2B 5PW
Wednesday 11 Feb 2015 to Tue 17 Feb
The Railways of Britain and Europe in the Great War by Michael Gillings
This talk will look at how the railways of the major participants developed in WWI from passenger services and troop trains in the UK to railway activities close to the front.
Michael Gillings has had a life-long interest in the political and...
Shoe Lane Library, Hill House, 1 Little New Street, London EC4A 3JR
Wednesday 28 Jan 2015
Friday Late: Farewell Leicester Square
Come and party after hours and celebrate the emerging jazz age of the 1920s and the dawn of a new kind of London nightlife on Friday 6 February 2015 at London Transport Museum, Covent Garden. Here are just some of the glamorous activities guests can...
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza. WC2E 7BB
Friday 6 Feb 2015
February half term fun: Shadow Puppet Cinema and Storytime
o Drop in sessions from 11.30 and 14.30 – sessions run for up to an hour
Creative workshops for budding young directors! Youngsters can find out how Londoners were discovering a brand new form of entertainment known as cinema 100 years ago....
London Transport Museum, Covent Garden Piazza. WC2E 7BB
Monday 16 Feb 2015 to Friday 20 Feb 2015
The Wit & Songs of Noel Coward
Pianist and entertainer, Peter Gill presents a tribute to the wit and song-writing skill of that most English of Englishmen, Noel Coward, who said of himself I am an enormously talented man and there is no point in denying it. Born in 1899, Coward...
Museum of Comedy, London WC1A 2SR
Tuesday 27 Jan 2015 and Wednesday 28 Jan 2015
The Wapping Dispute
9 January – 13 February 2015
Mondays – Saturdays 10.00 – 6.00
An exhibition portraying the devastating events connected to the News International dispute.
Visitors are advised to telephone in advance if a weekday visit is planned. The...
Bride Lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
Tomorrow to Sat 31 Jan, Mon 2 Feb to Sat 7 Feb, Mon 9 Feb to Fri 13 Feb
The Priory
Written by Michael Wynne
Directed by Alan Bosworth
Presented by the Spread Eagle Players
A few friends. People we like. No craziness. The days of a big blow out are over.
Kate is delighted when she finds a house in the country to escape...
Bridewell theatre, 14 Bride lane, Fleet Street, London EC4Y 8EQ
Wednesday 28 Jan 2015 to Sat 31 Jan
Short course: King Lear at the National Theatre
This three-week course explores the four NT productions of King Lear. Shakespeare’s tragedy has been directed here by Sam Mendes, Richard Eyre, Deborah Warner and David Hare; with actors Simon Russell Beale, Ian Holm, Brian Cox and Anthony Hopkins...
Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre, Southbank, London SE1 9PX
Tomorrow, Mon 2 Feb
Black Plays - Black Woman Time
This session examines the development of black women playwrights and black theatre companies with a gender specific remit. The 1980s saw a steady increase in the number of plays written and produced by black and Asian women writers and the growth of...
Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre, Southbank, London SE1 9PX
Saturday 31 Jan 2015
How Plays Work: 3 Winters
Playwright April de Angelis leads this playwriting masterclass, based on Tena Štivicic’s play, 3 Winters. Through group discussion and writing exercises participants examine what makes the play work – structure, character, themes and language – as...
Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre, Southbank, London SE1 9PX
Sunday 1 Feb 2015
In Context: Tom Stoppard
Prolific playwright Tom Stoppard’s career spans over 50 years. His catalogue of work has entertained and stimulated audiences, from his acclaimed professional breakthrough with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead at the National Theatre in 1967,...
Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre, Southbank, London SE1 9PX
Thursday 5 Feb 2015
Black Plays - Post-colonial Beginnings
This session engages with issues of decolonisation in Africa during the late 1950s and 60s. Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, and Kenya are the focus of the plays in question and, whilst these nations have different political, linguistic, and cultural...
Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre, Southbank, London SE1 9PX
Saturday 7 Feb 2015
Black Plays - Coups and Calypsos
This session focuses on the position of the Caribbean Carnival, which since the 1960s has emerged as one of the primary influences on Caribbean drama. The history of Caribbean Carnival is linked to the enslaved population’s fight for freedom....
Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre, Southbank, London SE1 9PX
Saturday 14 Feb 2015
Black Plays - Township Plays
During the 1970s and 80s, theatre played an important role in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and elsewhere. It provided a space in which black artists could assert an alternative South African identity. ‘Township Plays’ explores the...
Clore Learning Centre: Cottesloe Room, National Theatre, Southbank, London SE1 9PX
Saturday 21 Feb 2015
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