Events Listings – Jan 11th – 18th
by Thomas Eckhardt
POETRY
THE 2009 T S ELIOT PRIZE READING
Queen Elizabeth Hall, 7:30pm, Sunday January 17th, £12
South Bank, London, SE1 8XX
http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/
‘The TS Eliot Poetry Prize Reading? Give over. Nothing but a bunch of old funny duddies’. Well, it’s only the most famous and celebrated of all the poetry prizes, and more importantly takes place on a nice little Sunday evening. Move over Glastonbury while Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin, Fred D’Aguiar, Jane Draycott, Philip Gross, Sinéad Morrissey, Sharon Olds, Alice Oswald, Christopher Reid, George Szirtes and Hugo Williams all read from their nominated work. The winner will be revealed on Monday. Poetry’s the new mime.
COMEDY
Wednesday 12th January sees the Pleasance Theatre, Islington present their Just for Laughs showcase of British comedic talent to the bookers of the Montreal festival. Great performers such as Ginger and Black and Tommy and the Weeks mean that this will be a great night out. http://www.pleasance.co.uk/islington/node/734
MUSIC
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT @ The Jazz Café, 12.01.10
5 Parkway, NW1 7PG
Transport Camden Town
Potty mouth and supporter of the NHS Martha Wainwright is playing tonight at the Jazz Cafe. If you like kooky vocals and sombre ballads with a bit of sass then you should probably go to this. Tickets are a whopping £20 a pop though, but if you steal her music off the internet then it probably all works out. Here is a song what she done.
THEATRE
THE LITTLE DOG LAUGHED
Douglas Carter Beane needs little introduction. Well, that’s a lie. He wrote the screenplay for the 90s romp ‘To Wong Foo,Thanks for Everything! Juile Newmar’ starring Patrick Swayze and Wesley Snipes. Now his Tony award nominated satire on how super fake Hollywood like totally is, is moving to the Garrick theatre, and it has an excellent cast. Tamsin Greig (Green Wing), Gemma Arterton (Tess of The D’Urbervilles) and Ruper Friend (boyfriend of Keira Knightley) star in a dark comedy of cover-ups sleaze and general dastardly behaviour. Previews are running this week. Get your tickets ‘ere.
