THEATRE Look Back in Anger Fifty years on, John Osborne’s play is reaching the status of a classic, but in Peter Gill’s explosive production it has a sense of something new and dangerous for a new age of anger. Richard Coyle leads a crack cast. JP
Theatre Royal, Bath
DANCE Ballet Nacional de Cuba This world-class company with great international stars presents two programmes for this London return: Magia de la Danza (highlights from the classical repertory) and the UK premiere of the exuberant full-length Don Quixote.
Sadler’s Wells, EC1: Magia de la Danza, today, Sat, Sun; Don Quixote, Tue-Fri
OPERA Gadaffi: A Living Myth Are Steve Chandra Savale and his Asian Dub Foundation chums hoping to do a Nixon in China on the serpentine Libyan leader? David Freeman’s staging promises “drama, dance and an original audiovisual experience”. James Morgan conducts.
English National Opera, Coliseum, WC2, Thu-Sat
COMEDY Mark Thomas: As Used on the Famous Nelson Mandela Mark Thomas’s new show is not exactly stand-up. Between fact and gag, he chooses fact every time. Though that’s not to say his delving into the arms industry isn’t amusing.
Soho Theatre, W1, Tue-Sat
CONCERTS BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus, Singers Mark Elder conducts the Last Night of the Proms, including Colin Matthews’s Vivo and Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No 2 (soloist Viktoria Mullova) among traditional fare.
Albert Hall, SW7, Sat
Advertisement
POP Mark Olson and the Creekdippers An oh-so-rare chance to catch the extraordinary singer Victoria Williams performing with her husband, the former Jayhawk Mark Olson, and his rootsy band the Creekdippers. Song titles such as End of the Highway, Rumsfeld and Portrait of a Sick America may give you some idea of their current lyrical agenda.
Arts Centre, Norwich, Thu; 100 Club, W1, Fri; Cluny, Newcastle, Sat