![]() ![]() With the same source material as Frozen, but fewer talking snowmen, Scottish Ballet brings back The Snow Queen for a frosty Christmas outing. Rachel AroestiĮdinburgh Festival Theatre, 19 November to 10 December touring to 4 February The crazy cat lady trope is blitzed into a bracingly original hour of standup, with rising comic Thompson ludicrously lip-syncing her way through a volley of feline pop-culture references – from The Aristocats to the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical – while also clawing at weightier ideas about mental health and the overwhelming nature of modern life. This exhibition surveys the history of plastic from its invention to today, when it has become a modern nightmare. The modern dreams of the 1960s are preserved in objects such as Eero Aarnio’s spherical white plastic chair, which looks as though it should be in a Kubrick or Antonioni film, and probably was. Here they mass in a labyrinthine spectacle. Abakanowicz earned that honour with the installations of hanging fibre she created in communist Poland in the 1960s and 70s. Not many artists are so distinctive they get a genre of sculpture named after them. Never seen an Abakan before? Here’s your chance. This 18th-century artist is a subtle genius whose eye is always a delight, and the revamped museum in his birthplace makes a good pilgrimage for wet, cold, end-of-the-year days. Her art has echoes of old masters such as Rembrandt and Velázquez.Īutumn’s colours are like a Gainsborough landscape: those brown trees against moist grey clouds. Yiadom-Boakye paints fictional characters in tantalising narrative scenes. This absorbing survey of a sensitive and imaginative painter originally opened in 2020 but almost no one saw it because of Covid lockdowns. Tate Britain, London, 24 November to 26 February ![]() Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s Citrine By the Ounce. Concerts by Ensemble Intercontemporain (19 November), Riot Ensemble (22 November), the London Sinfonietta (20 November) and Quatuor Diotima (23 November) all include pieces by Lisa Streich, while the composer herself gives a talk (19 November) introducing her music and the motorised instruments it features prominently. The works of this year’s composer-in-residence dominate the opening few days of the Huddersfield contemporary music festival. Various venues, Huddersfield, to 23 November Michael CraggĪ packed closing weekend of the EFG London Jazz festival includes vocal star Melody Gardot, and Jean Toussaint’s post-bop sextet with Soweto Kinch and trumpeter Byron Wallen (both 19 November) Then, 21 November features global-jazz pioneer Don Cherry’s music celebrated by Kahil El’Zabar’s Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, plus the Cuban piano great Chucho Valdés. Their busy schedule finds them in venues better equipped to house their growing fanbase. Since releasing their Mercury-nominated debut The Overload in January – a UK No 2 album, no less – the Leeds post-punkers have barely been at home. ![]() If anything can briefly transport you to another dimension – a lovely thought given, well, 2022 – it’s one of these shows.Ģ2 November to 1 December tour starts Glasgow With one of 2022’s best albums under her belt in the shape of the genre-splicing Natural Brown Prom Queen, US singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brittney Parks arrives for a celebratory tour. In an era of cinema when film-makers are making a renewed and welcome effort to centre different narrative perspectives, here’s A Christmas Carol from the point of view of the ghosts, starring Will Ferrell as the Ghost of Christmas Present. Set in 1980s New York, this semi-autobiographical drama from director James Gray is well worth your time: a thought-provoking slice of life seen from the perspective of a 12-year-old boy (Banks Repeta), it also allows Anthony Hopkins to wring tears from even the most hardened of hearts, in his role as the boy’s beloved grandfather. In fact, the third in the film series (Fletch was previously played by Chevy Chase) is a likable comedy romp involving stolen art, Italian girlfriends and bumbling cops.īlessed as it is with a stellar performance from Normal People’s Paul Mescal, as a young father spending time with his daughter at a cheesy holiday resort in the 1990s, Charlotte Wells’s gorgeous coming-of-age film is one of the breakout successes from this year’s crop of debut UK directors. If you are mainly familiar with Jon Hamm for his era-defining role as Don Draper in Mad Men, pairing him with Superbad director Greg Mottola might seem like an odd choice. ![]()
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