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Arts ahead: September 21, 2018

OXFORD EXHIBITION
Future Knowledge
Modern Art Oxford
September 22-October 28

This thought-provoking exhibition explores the role of visual culture in continuing to raise awareness of the effects of climate change. It brings together artworks, prototypes and projects by artists, designers and thinkers from a range of different disciplines in order to showcase fascinating and diverse creative responses to environmental concerns.

Among the many exhibits are US artist Rachel Sussman’s epic visual timeline stretching back 750 million years, Norwegian Eline McGeorge’s montage and weaving works symbolising an environmental cycle of damage and repair and British artist Tania Kovats’s vast sculptures of steel and salt which reflect the theory that Earth has one interconnected, self-regulating ocean.

modernartoxford.org.uk

LEEDS/TOURING OPERA
Tosca
Grand Theatre
September 22-October 13

Giacomo Puccini's Tosca is a global opera favourite and here it gets a new production by Opera North, played out beneath the domes and frescoes of renaissance Rome. Its stellar cast, including Giselle Allen, Rafael Rojas and Robert Hayward will be getting to grips with Puccini’s melodrama of lust, love, cruelty and self-sacrifice, set to a high-octane score veering from tenderness to brutal power, which includes Tosca’s famous passionate aria Vissi d’arte. Tours until November 16 after these dates in Leeds.

operanorth.co.uk

LONDON/TOURING DANCE
Ballet Black Double Bill
Theatre Royal Stratford East
October 10-Oct 13

Ballet Black, the dance company celebrating dancers of black and Asian descent, resents its latest double bill in Stratford before a national tour.

The double bill comprises the new narrative ballet The Suit, based on Can Themba’s South African fable, the first dance adaptation of the affecting short story. It's followed by A Dream Within a Midsummer Night’s Dream, a production mixing classical and contemporary to distil the essence of Shakespeare’s comedy, unfolding to an eclectic soundtrack that includes Eartha Kitt, Barbra Streisand and Yma Sumac. Sounds like a must-see.

stratfordeast.com

NEWCASTLE THEATRE
Clear White Light
Live Theatre
October 18-November 10

Written by Paul Sirett and set to the songs of Lindisfarne's Alan Hull, this play is a contemporary retelling of a classic gothic story, inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. Set against a background of cuts to our 70-year-old NHS, it has Alison heading to her first shift at a hospital in Gosforth.

She’s nervous, particularly as it’s a night shift on an all-male psychiatric unit and she hasn’t finished her training yet. But Rod, the senior staff nurse, seems to know what to do … Inspired by Hull’s time working at St Nick’s, the play features many of the hit songs he wrote at that time, including Winter Song, Lady Eleanor and Clear White Light, played by a live band.

live.org.uk

 

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