Flicker

Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadlers Wells Theatre
24 January

An eyelid flutters
onstage, and in the music
a woman cries out.


Flicker was presented as a one-off
semi-staged concert performance.
http://www.mettatheatre.co.uk/productions/flicker/

Julius Caesar

The Donmar Warehouse
11 January

With plastic knives and drums

they wage their war,

with prison bleach they bring

poor Caesar down;

in overalls and hooodies

they encounter Rome

and turn the streets

into a battleground.

 

Julius Caesar runs until 9 February at the Donmar Warehouse

http://www.donmarwarehouse.com/whats-on/donmar-warehouse/2012/julius-caesar 

The Master and Margarita

Barbican

15 January 

Courage, take the ointment

and expunge your skin,

 

leap from the window, fly

on unseen wings above the city lights.

Take up the devil’s crown

and dance with him, 

for cowardice

is now the only sin.

 

The Master and Margarita runs at the Barbican until 19 January

http://www.barbican.org.uk/theatre/event-detail.asp?id=13735

Fair Em

Union Theatre

12 January

As full of plots

as any blonde-haired heroine

intent upon her green-legged lover,

and as full again

with amorous confusion

as a cockney king 

who roars

his hatred of deception

through his own disguise.

Fair Em is playing at the Union Theatre until 9 February
www.fairem.co.uk

The Dark Earth and the Light Sky

Almeida

8 January

 

And we relive it all,

the long, high walks

and skylarks high above,

the dance and wild song,

and love as bright

and open as the sky;

then lose him once again

as he, for love of earth

and land, walks out to die.

The Dark Earth and the Light Sky runs at the Almeida until 12 January 
www.almeida.co.uk/event/darkearth

Slava's Snowshow

Royal Festival Hall

18 December

You could say that this

is yellow clown and green,

snowfall and bubble,

broom and wink and fish,

but that would hardly capture

all the blue and gold,

the shock of water

and of whirling snow,

and at the heart of it

the one old clown, paw-eyed

and shuffling, conjuring up

the stuff of strangest dream.

 

Slava's Snowshow runs at the Royal Festival Hall until 7 January 2013

http://www.slavasnowshow.co.uk/

Father Christmas

Lyric

15 December

On Christmas Eve the sky is cold

and full of whirling snow,

but in the house it’s cosy

and the kitchen all aglow;

and Father Christmas makes it clear

he doesn’t want to go,

but still he packs his sandwiches

and takes the radio;

and out across the world he flies

reindeer and sleigh,

from London houses to igloos

and pyramids along the way,

and leaves a present everywhere

that children play,

and flies back home in time
to go to bed on Christmas day.

Father Christmas runs until 5 January at the Lyric
http://www.lyric.co.uk/whats-on/production/father-christmas/