Top ten at the Southbank this week
Each week Annie from www.southbanklondon.com picks her top ten things to do on the Southbank.
1. The Linbury Prize. National Theatre. Mon – Sun
This prize is a turning-point in the careers of young designers, see the finalists’ designs exhibited for free at the National Theatre.
2. Re-Rite Be the Orchestra. Bargehouse. Tues – Sun
Conduct, play and step inside the Philharmonia’s first digital residency to the sounds of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring.
3. X-perimentalist: Hugh Turvey x-ray artist. gallery@oxo. Wed – Sat
The artist Hugh Turvey exhibits his experiments with x-ray producing insightful contemporary images. More Info
4. Disney’s A Christmas Carol – An IMAX 3D Experience. BFI IMAX. Wed-Sun
A re-envisioned version of the classic Dickens tale featuring the talents of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Colin Firth.
5. 11th BFM International Film Festival. BFI Southbank. Fri- Sun
The UK’s largest black world cinema event, back to BFI Southbank for the second year running.
6. London Creatives: Polish Roots. Topolski Century Fri – Sun
A temporary exhibition displaying portraits of Londoners with Polish origins, prominent in London’s creative world.
7. Uncle Vanya. Young Vic. Thurs – Sun.
This workshop production boldly reinterprets Chekhov’s story of frustrated longing and wasted lives for our work obsessed times.
8.The Big Flame. BFI Southbank. Thurs. 8.40pm
This gripping drama follows striking dockers as they take on their bosses, their union and the government to stage a worker takeover of the Liverpool docks. Filmed on location in a drama-documentary style, this is one of the definitive collaborations between Loach, producer Tony Garnett and writer Jim Allen.
9. Memories of Murder. BFI Southbank. Mon. 8.40pm
Korea’s first serial killer struck in the countryside around Hwaseong in the 1980s; he was never caught. Bong’s masterly reworking of the case centres on the bungled police investigation (the great Song Kang-Ho plays a thick-eared local cop) and identifies as prime suspect a man who looks like a leftist student-turned-manual worker.
10. Britten Sinfonia. Southbank Centre. Sat. 7.30pm
Following their acclaimed collaboration at Aldeburgh Festival in 2008 the partnership between Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Britten Sinfonia continues with this performance focused on the works of Haydn and Elliott Carter.
For more details on any of the above visit www.southbanklondon.com
