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Arts ahead: July 19 2018

Photography: New Brighton Revisited, Liverpool Biennial, Music: HebCelt festival, Stornoway, Theatre: The Prisoner, Edinburgh, Music Theatre: Xuanzang’s Pilgrimage, London

NEW BRIGHTON PHOTOGRAPHY

New Brighton Revisited
Until August 25
The Sailing School, Marine Point

This group show, part of the Liverpool Biennial, brings together for the first time the New Brighton pictures of internationally renowned photographers Martin Parr, Ken Grant and Tom Wood.

It records three decades of New Brighton through the eyes of the photographers as they lived and worked there, with all three discovering a fascination and beauty in the town's streets, seafront, visitors and residents.

Each photographer has captured, in their individual styles, moments of the town’s life from the late 1970s to the end of the 1990s.

openeye.org.uk

EDINBURGH THEATRE

The Prisoner
Lyceum Theatre
August 22-26

One of the highlights of this year's Edinburgh International Festival is this production from legendary theatre-maker Peter Brook. The Prisoner is set “somewhere in the world,” where a man sits alone outside a prison.

Who is he and why is he there? Is it a choice or a punishment? are among the questions posed in this play about justice, guilt and who gets to decide what they are.

Performed by a multinational cast of actors, this provocative exploration of some of the most compelling issues of our times is co-written and co-directed by Brook with long-time collaborator Marie-Helene Estienne.

lyceum.org.uk

LONDON MUSIC THEATRE

Xuanzang’s Pilgrimage
Sadler's Wells
July 21 and 22

This spectacular production, based on Journey to the West, one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature from the 16th century, tells the story of Chinese monk Xuanzang (602-664CE), who travelled the Silk Road across China on a pilgrimage to India, visiting Buddhist holy places and discovering sacred scripture.

The world's first traditional Chinese musical drama is epic in scale and themes, combining music from China's Han, Uyghur, Kazak and Tajik ethnic groups among others and featuring instruments such as the zither, Chinese harp, dulcimer and eagle flute.

It's a celebration of the diverse but connected cultures found along the legendary Silk Road. Surtitles in English.

 

STORNOWAY MUSIC

HebCelt Festival
Lews Castle
July 21

Staged every summer in the scenic grounds of Stornoway's Lews Castle, HebCelt has become a highlight of the Scottish music calendar.

Showcasing the best in contemporary and traditional Celtic folk and rock, some of it using the islands' native Gaelic language and all of it drawing on a rich vocal and instrumental heritage, its headliners this Saturday are the evergreen Deacon Blue and other notables on the bill are Blazin' Fiddles (pictured), The Sea Atlas, Martha L Healy, Adam Sutherland Band, Rosie Sullivan, Lindsay Ferguson and As na H-Eileanan (From the Islands).

hebceltfest.com

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