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Exhibition: High Spirits: The Comic Art of Thomas Rowlandson
The Holburne Museum
Great Pulteney Street
BATH
September 27-February 8
If you want to get a flavour — or even a figurative whiff — of life in Georgian England, this free exhibition of works by cartoonist Thomas Rowlandson (1757-1827) is well worth checking out. Portly squires and young dandies, along with Jane Austen-esque heroines and their gruesome chaperones and dashing young officers and corrupt politicians are all here. The absurdities of fashion, the perils of love, political machinations and royal intrigue were Rowlandson’s daily subject matter and he spears his targets with an exuberant ruthlessness reminiscent of a Hogarth or Gillray.
Theatre: Juno and the Paycock
Old Vic
King Street
BRISTOL
To September 27
Sean O’Casey’s great play, set in a Dublin ravaged by civil war in 1922, gets a welcome new production in Bristol before moving on to Liverpool. The world’s in the grip of change for Juno (Niamh Cusack, pictured) and her peacock of a husband — a daughter flirting with marriage and politics, civil war outside the door and a son wounded and hiding from the conflict. Could the reading of a will bring stability and status to the Boyle household? Hilarity and tragedy rub shoulders in O’Casey’s mix of comic double acts, political upheavals, domestic longings and characters who are never far away from a song.
Exhibition: A History of Communism
Alan Cristea Gallery
Cork Street
LONDON W1
September 10-October 7. Free
US artist Jim Dine made a name for himself as a performance artist during the pop art era way back in the ’60s and he’s since reinvented himself, if this exhibition is anything to go by. It’s a series of prints from lithographic stones found in what was previously a socialist art academy in East Germany in which Dine uses his own motifs to frame, overlay or interfere with the original images, a process which is not about reinterpretation but exerting control over the found material. To what purpose, one wonders. May — or may not — be worth finding out.
Music: Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick
King’s Place
York Way
LONDON N1
September 12
This reunion of a legendary songwriting duo brings together one of folk music’s greatest innovators Martin Carthy with Dave Swarbrick, whose contribution to folk-rock music through Fairport Convention is immense. Their experienced approach lacks none of the fervour of their early days and brings a maturity born of many years living with the music that is an integral part of their beings. All the old skills are demonstrated with a new collection of traditional songs and instrumentals. Hugely recommended.
