Recent(ish) culture

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Beethoven - Symphony #9 -- Warsaw Philharmonic, Cadogan Hall, 20-May-15
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'Alternative Worlds' - Elizabeth Knox and Janine Matthewson -- Kings College London, 31-May-15

"Fiction is the great god of the world of feeling ... the lies that we tell to tell the truth truer."

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Waiting for Godot, Barbican Theatre, 9-Jun-15
Mostly booked this because of the two leads: Richard Roxburgh as Estragon, Hugo Weaving as Vladimir. [Why yes, it is in my calendar as 'Waiting for Elrond and Dracula'.] ( Read more... )

Jurassic World, Odeon Greenwich, 12-Jun-15

No, this is not a feminist movie in the slightest. A strong, intelligent female is shunned and isolated, and when she escapes from her situation she is hunted down like an animal( Read more... )

Oresteia, Almeida Theatre, 15-Jun-15

"Forewarned is forearmed, not forestalled."

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Beethoven - Fidelio Overture / Piano Concerto #3 / Symphony #5, Dresden Philharmonic (conductor: Sanderling) & Freddy Kempf, Cadogan Hall, 18-Jun-15

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Beethoven - Prometheus Overture / Piano Concerto #5, Dresden Philharmonic (conductor: Sanderling) & Freddy Kempf, Cadogan Hall, 22-Jun-15

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To Kill a Mockingbird, Barbican Theatre, 11-Jul-15

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Ant-Man, Cineworld West India Quay, 17-Jul-15

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