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We are a social group for those in the LGBTQ+ community to meet up for cultural pursuits - high culture or low! Theatre, Concerts, Gigs, Musicals, Opera, Dance, Film, Art, Photography, Exhibitions, Galleries, Museums, Historic houses, London history, Food (or other) Festivals, and anything else of a cultural bent.
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"MUSIK" by Jonathan Harvey and Pet Shop Boys
Wilton's Music Hall, 1 Graces Alley (off Ensign Street) London, E1 8JB, GBBillie Trix. Icon. Rock star. Screen goddess. Drug addict. Billie has lived a life of excess and shares it all in her new one-woman show. Her journey takes us from post-war Berlin to the rock arenas of the world, via the Vietnam war, Andy Warhol’s Factory, and 10 years in a Soho Square phone box.
A stunning performance by Frances Barber as Billie Trix, returning to the unforgettable larger-than-life character she first created in the 2001 West End musical Closer to Heaven, with an outrageous script by Jonathan Harvey (Beautiful Thing, Coronation Street) and six original songs by Pet Shop Boys.
Tickets are between £10 and £28.50 and can be bought here . I will be there from 6.30pm if anyone fancies a drink beforehand.
3 attendeesFREE Science Gallery Late - Quantum After Dark
Science Gallery , Great Maze Pond, London , al, GBFollow 👉this link👈 to get your ticket ASAP
Through interactive artworks, immersive sculptural installations and the words of physicists, philosophers and poets, Science Gallery London’s new exhibition Quantum Untangled fuses art, science and extraordinary interdisciplinary research together to consider big quantum questions and reveal the power quantum possesses to transform our futures.
Experience the exhibition and immerse yourself in an evening of music, gaming, talks and more.
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Meetiquette: Please change RSVP if you can't attend to make room for others and avoid being tagged as a No-Show, thank you.
25 attendeesChopin, Ravel and Mussorgsky piano concert
Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Centre, Belvedere Road,, London SE1 8XX, GB*Please buy a ticket before marking your attendance - see below to book*
Join us at Queen Elizabeth Hall for a concert by the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor.
PROGRAMME
- Chopin: Piano Sonata #2 ('Funeral March')
- Ravel: Gaspard de la nuit
- Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Further description (taken from the Southbank website) at the bottom.
TICKETS
Full price tickets range from £17 to £64, + £3.50 booking fee. The booking page can be found here: https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/benjamin-grosvenor-pictures-at-an-exhibition/. I am in seat CC25 in the rear stalls if anyone wishes to sit nearby.We will meet for a brief hello before the concert, and then go for a drink nearby afterwards.
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Since he began playing at age five, lauded pianist Benjamin Grosvenor has steadily risen to the very highest ranks of international stardom with his outstanding technique and finesse.Tonight, he delves into the myriad colours of three visionary works which are linked by their vivid, pictorial musical landscapes. Each draws out the piano’s potential to go almost above and beyond an orchestra in expressive range.
Grosvenor opens with Chopin’s ‘Funeral March’ Sonata, a work full of feverish intensity and startling originality. Next comes Ravel’s trilogy Gaspard de la nuit, the French composer’s lavish response to three poems depicting spine-tingling scenes of the supernatural.
The concert concludes with Mussorgsky’s monumental Pictures at an Exhibition.
Here, the Russian composer evokes the life behind a series of paintings: images of ordinary people that become extraordinary through the power of the music. It culminates in a stirring final cityscape, ‘Great Gate of Kyiv’.
8 attendeesJoe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane" at the Young Vic
The Young Vic , 66 The Cut Waterloo London SE1 8LZ, London, GBCome join us at the theatre for cult gay playwright Joe Orton's "Entertaining Mr Sloane" at the Young Vic in Waterloo. Ticket prices range from £12 to £57. You will need to purchase a ticket directly from the theatre which you can do here.
I will be at the theatre from 18.00, and will reserve a table in the bar nearer the time (as well as figure out how to make myself identifiable). Full casting not yet released, but Tamzin Outhwaite confirmed who put on a belting performance as the ghastly Beverley in Theatre Royal Stratford East's revival of "Abigail's Party" last year.
Blurb about the play from the Young Vic is as follows:
"'Tell him to put some trousers on. Cantering around the house with a bare bum… Can’t leave you alone for five minutes.'
When lonely Kath offers the mysterious Mr Sloane a room to rent in the family home, her businessman brother Ed does not approve. After all, what will people say? But soon, he becomes equally taken with the charismatic young Sloane. Only their old Dada remains wary, convinced that he recognises this stranger. What begins as a convenient living arrangement spirals into a dangerous game of desire and deceit.
Nadia Fall launches her first season as Young Vic Artistic Director with Joe Orton’s 1964 cult classic brimming with manipulation, seduction, and a devilish wit."
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