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LONDON FESTIVAL
Chinese Arts Now
Various venues
Until February 23
This festival explores contemporary British-Chinese experiences as it delves into the past, present and future of the British Chinese population, celebrating innovation and exploring identity.
Highlights include an augmented-reality tour around Soho’s Chinatown, a show set in a Chinese restaurant and Triptych, which brings together music, dance and word.
Comedian Nigel Ng explores life in Britain as a Malaysian immigrant and in dance and circus, Invisible Harmony reflects on the East Asian experience of living in the West.
The festival ends with Ways of Being Together, in which 30 performers from across London enact a dynamic mass movement of bodies and lives.
COMPTON VERNEY EXHIBITION
Cranach: Artist and Innovator
Art Gallery and Park, Compton Verney, Warwickshire
March 14 to June 14
Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472–1553) was one of the most successful German artists of all time.
His portrayals of German nobility and the leaders of the Protestant Reformation made him a highly sought after portraitist, while today he is best known for his seductive paintings of the female nude, expressing temptation and its consequences.
Featuring some of his most beguiling paintings and illustrations on loan from the National Gallery, the exhibition will also showcase modern and contemporary works inspired by Cranach from artists including Pablo Picasso, Raqib Shaw, Claire Partington and Michael Landy, demonstrating his significant and enduring cultural influence.
LONDON THEATRE
Kunene and the King
Ambassadors Theatre
Until March 28
Set in South Africa in 2019, 25 years since the first post-apartheid democratic elections, two men from contrasting walks of life are thrust together in John Kani’s play.
One is a celebrated classical actor who’s just been given both a career-defining role and a life-changing diagnosis, the other is his at-home nurse. The two seemingly have little in common but they soon discover their shared passion for Shakespeare, which ignites this reflection on a quarter century of change.
Recommended — the production and performances from Kani and Anthony Sher were given a 5* rating by the Morning Star when it debuted at the Royal Shakespeare Company last year.
MILFORD HAVEN/TOURING THEATRE
Riot Act
Torch Theatre
February 11
Created and performed by Alexis Gregory, Riot Act is a hard-hitting, hilarious and moving exploration of the history of the LGBT+ rights movement.
A solo verbatim piece, directed by Rikki Beadle-Blair, it is derived from Gregory’s interviews with one of the only remaining Stonewall survivors, a 1970s London radical-drag artist and a prominent 1990s Aids activist.
Tours nationally after this date.
