Among the 40-plus artists featured are Hurvin Anderson (work pictured, above), Paul Dash, Alberta Whittle and Sonia Boyce. This survey of Caribbean-British art since the Windrush era should be a feast of creative crossings, literally across the Atlantic, and figuratively. Tate Britain, London, Wednesday 1 December to 3 April He will be dancing here with the divine Alina Cojocaru. Royal Albert Hall, London, Wed nesday 1 DecemberĪ return to the stage for the sometimes brilliant, sometimes erratic Sergei Polunin, famed for walking out of the Royal Ballet, his many tattoos and the 30m YouTube views of his Take Me to Church video. Pleasance theatre, London, Thur sday 2 DecemberĪ gloriously spot-on parody of the self-styled “creative type”, Rob Carter’s shell-suited, frighteningly prolific novelist (we’re talking multiple books per day) is both utterly delusional and the creator of some genuinely engaging – albeit very strange – fiction. In an outdoor installation experience that takes place in the theatre’s gardens, Hannah Lavery adapts L Frank Baum’s Christmas tale, in which young Alice tries to catch Santa Claus. Pitlochry Festival theatre, Wed nesday 1 to 23 Dec ember This stage adaptation is directed by Emily Burns, James Cousins and Nicholas Hytner. This first part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust trilogy is set 12 years before His Dark Materials – and sees two children struggle to protect young Lyra as the waters rise. Andrew Clementsīridge theatre, London, Tue sday 30 November to 26 Feb ruary London Sinfonietta is making amends now by including Leo and Libra, the two brilliantly coloured works Gerhard composed for them. The pandemic put paid to events marking the 50th anniversary of the death of the composer Roberto Gerhard. Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, Wednesday 1 December London’s young Aurora Orchestra furthers its adventurous reputation on this gig with composer-saxophonist Kinoshi, including the premiere of her Three Suns Suite – drawing on her own life as a Black Briton, and the cultural chemistry of her grandparents’ generation. Kings Place, London, Sat urday 27 November Her earlier, more pillow soft-soul should act as ample breathers between sophisticated bangers such as the single Spotlight. With last year’s Brit-nominated, disco-saturated fourth album What’s Your Pleasure? still riding high following a summer 2021 rerelease, Ware finally gets to unleash it onto venues across the country.
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Wed nesday 1 to 13 Dec ember starts Birmingham Last year’s debut album, The Blue Print: Us vs Them, stretched 29 guest-heavy songs to more than 90 minutes, while their rapid release rate has seen them land 16 top 40 hits in just three years. Lewisham’s trap-loving hip-hop duo don’t do things in moderation.
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Tue sday 30 November to 10 Dec ember starts Birmingham Writer-director Reggie Yates gets us rooting for his charming cast from minute one.Ī teacher’s career is jeopardised when her sex tape is leaked, in what is – as you might have guessed from the title – another button-pushing provocation from Radu Jude, the Romanian director widely celebrated for his gloriously confrontational perspectives on modern life.
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The men: hapless lads with dreams of big careers in music. The mission: to gain admission to the best millennium party ever. The ICA’s signature annual film festival dedicated to “the cinema of the real” returns, featuring – as ever – an impeccably curated offering of 20 international documentary premieres, this year unfolding under the collective thematic banner of (Re)Imagining.įilmed in London and set in 1999, in some ways Pirates is simply a classic tale of men on a mission. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, to 4 Dec ember If you need further incentive: it’s directed by Ridley Scott, and Adam Driver, Salma Hayek, Jared Leto and Al Pacino also star. Lady Gaga is all the reason anyone should need to catch this glossy crime drama about the demise of the Italian fashion dynasty. Illustration: Lalalimola/The Guardian Going Out: Cinema