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Last Minute Listing: The Book Of The Dead Late @ British Museum

The Book of the Dead comes alive tonight in an evening of free events at the British Museum…

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Theatre Review: Side Effects @ Rich Mix

10 mg dance, 8mg theatre, 3.75 ml science: Side Effects is a performance exploring society’s relationship to medicine. Can it make us feel better about what we take to feel better?

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Review: Charged @ Soho Theatre

Do not go expecting six miniature stage versions of The Shawshank Redemption. Charged at Soho Theatre is not Clean Break’s attempt to recreate that heartwarming tale of human dignity and male friendship for women. Instead, these six plays by women about women affected by the …

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Review: Twin Peaks Weekender @ BAC

BAC held a special 20th birthday Twin Peaks Weekender for David Lynch’s TV series over the weekend. All 30 episodes were shown in the Grand Hall. And the audience, in costume, in sleeping bags, in fortresses of pillows, lay down and watched. And watched, and …

Theatre Review: Once Upon A Thames

There was no clear reason why the whale entered the Thames in 2006, nor why it touched so many people who lined the Thames hoping to see it. Lunidea have seized on the miraculous, magical aspect of the story and in Once Upon A Thames …

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Mile End Mystery Accident Pay-Outs

The flying piece of plastic that injured three women at Mile End tube station last November has bounced back into the news. One of the injured women has sued London Underground (LU) for damages; she suffered a 5cm cut on her forehead when a plastic …

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Galloway may try for Mayor of Tower Hamlets… meanwhile, Duwayne Brooks may try for Mayor of the whole of London. 2012 fake merchandise has been spotted and seized as the Olympics cash-in starts early. Richard Rogers’ towers will extend Thames Path beyond Battersea if the …

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Choose Your Own Bus-Tops

The team behind Bus-Tops needs your help! The digital art installations designed for the tops of bus shelters across London got us very excited when we first heard about it, and this Artists taking the lead project is at the stage where public opinion is …

Border Crossings Theatre Company. "Re-Orientations"

Review: Re-Orientations @ Soho Theatre

Photo: Patrick Baldwin Starbucks, wheelie suitcases, airport lounges, emails, Four Seasons hotels are identical, wherever you are. But the people drinking coffee, pushing their cases through passport control, into cabs then into international hotel chains are each unique; they connect and overlap with unexpected consequences. …

"Re-Orientations"

Londonist Interview: Michael Walling, dir. Re-Orientations @Soho Theatre

Opening this week at Soho Theatre is Re-Orientations, a multi-cultural, multi-media live performance by Border Crossings (the company that brought the Origins festival to London last year) and has been developed over two years, bringing together performers from China, France, India and Sweden. With no …