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CROPREDY MUSIC
Fairport’s Cropredy Convention
Cropredy, Oxfordshire
August 7-9
This annual festival of folk and rock is bigger and potentially even better this year with a top line-up and plenty of “grass roots” events like morris dancing in the streets and live music in local pubs. As well as the Fairports showcasing new material along with old favourites, there are slots from The Waterboys, Capercaillie, The Wonder Stuff, Deborah Rose, Al Stewart, Marillion, Chas & Dave, Cara Dillon and BBC Radio 2’s Young Folk Musician Of The Year competition. What’s not to like?
GLASGOW THEATRE
Ophelia: Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Oran Mor
Byres Road
July 5
The greatest tragedy in the English language Hamlet has 1,476 lines and Ophelia has 170. Hamlet famously talks a lot and does nothing yet, if we were unaware of Hamlet’s inner life, how would we perceive him? Alan McKendrick’s rewrite of Shakespeare redresses that imbalance in the original play through giving voice to Ophelia, who courageously and palpably commits to action. Exploring her big decision — to be or not to be — Ophelia becomes the true tragic protagonist. With Adura Onashile, Alison Peebles and Scott Reid.
LEEDS EXHIBITION
Gego: Line As Object
July 24-October 19
Henry Moore Institute, The Headrow
Gego (1912–94) was born Gertrud Goldschmidt in Hamburg, emigrating to Venezuela in 1939 immediately after finishing her architectural studies in Stuttgart. For the next five decades she explored how a line can operate as an object, creating planes, volumes and expansive nets to reflect on perception. This exhibition charts Gego’s study of the sculptural possibilities of the line through drawings and sculptures, and proposals for public works stretching between the modernist buildings of Caracas and plans for filling gallery spaces in New York, Frankfurt and the Venezuelan capital. What marks this exhibition out is Gego’s engagement with form and space which makes use of light, shadow, scale and gravity in a constant process of discovery. Free.
LONDON EXHIBITION
Work And Play Behind The Iron Curtain
Grad Gallery
Until August 24
Little Portland Street, W1
This exhibition, part of this gallery’s continuing exploration of Russian and Soviet art, brings together over 50 key objects featuring the design style that emerged from the 1950s until the 1980s in the Soviet Union. Included in the show are cigarette boxes, children’s toys, domestic appliances, an electric-blue television and models and photographs from the famous Zil factory, which produced armoured trucks and domestic appliances. It’s an exploration of Soviet design history which explores a relatively unknown yet prolific period and should be well worth a visit. Free.
