Top 5 Theatre Shows & Art Exhibition Picks

Here are our top 5 picks of the best Theatres and Galleries currently open

By HannahLey | Updated Sep 15 2024

Ostan

An unflinching drama about the unravelling life of someone stuck in the UK immigration system.

Ostan -  پاریزگا , meaning province, state or border – follows the life of Rebin, who has been stuck in the UK immigration system for almost a decade. The world premiere of this new drama was developed by Fringe First-winner Arzhang Pezhman, a first-generation refugee from Iran, during his PhD. Drawing from the current immigration crisis, with thousands stuck in a broken immigration system, Pezhman questions who it is you are meant to be when stuck in this state of limbo. Dealing with prevalent themes of displacement, alienation, identity, family, and survival, Ostan encourages audiences not to take people at face value for better or worse and to look beyond their circumstances. 

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Antonio Calderara A Certain Light

New exhibition at The Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art September 2024.

Antonio Calderara (1903-1978) is renowned for his delicate and exquisitely balanced abstract imagery which, in its restraint and subtlety, exhibits affinities with the work of Giorgio Morandi. He lived and worked around Lake Orta in the north of Italy – a landscape that offered him constant inspiration and which was inextricably linked with the character and development of his ar

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My English Persian Kitchen

A life-affirming new play filled with the mouth-watering flavours of Iran, with live cooking!

‘85% of Iranian women are well educated. Of course we don’t cook. We work. We are professionals. As successful as the men.”

What would you take if you were forced to leave home with no hope of returning? How would you make a fresh start somewhere completely new? This is the true story about one woman who loses everything

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Behind Gilded Doors

Something is afoot! Join a team of re-enactors for a fun-filled experience at Apsley House.

There’s something amiss, the preparations for the Duke of Wellington’s prestigious, annual Waterloo Banquet - commemorating his famous victory over Napoleon and his forces - are well underway but a piece of the famous Portuguese Silver Service has gone missing……

What has happened to it? Has it been stolen? Merely misplaced, or has the culprit damaged it and is now hiding the object in question for fear of retribution? Perhaps the first question to answer is, what is the object in question?

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Alexandra Bircken Gebrochenes Pferd

Maureen Paley & Herald St join together for an exhibition of new works by Alexandra Bircken.

Comprising sculpture, wall installation, and photography, this body of work continues Bircken’s clinical dissections of cars and motorcycles to reveal our visceral connections to the machines which empower us. Through weaving and chromed surfaces, she expands her focus from that of the singular body to the enmeshed systems which simultaneously protect and stifle the individual.

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