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Friday 12^th February, 2010 – Events in London

What’s On in London on Friday 12th February… everything from theatre shows and music concerts, to comedy gigs, art shows and exhibitions.

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Violinist Sarah Chang, playing Brahms

Barbican Hall, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, Barbican, London 51.518834 51.518834

12th February 2010Reknowned violinist Sarah Chang will be playing a selection of works by Brahms, Franck, and the UK premiere of “Fantasy” by Theofanidis at Barbican Hall. She will be accompanied by pianist Andrew von Oeyen.

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FreeBirdwatching walk around Hyde Park

Hyde Park, Hyde Park, Hyde Park, London 51.507693 51.507693

12th February 2010If you like birdwatching, then book a place on our bird walk and talk in Hyde Park. Not all of London’s birds fly away for the winter — and this sightseeing walk will look at the ones that stayed behind.

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London Concertante, playing pieces by Bach

St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, London 51.508828 51.508828

12th February 2010Join the London Concertante at St. Martin-in-the-Fields church, as they perform a selection of classical works by Bach. Pieces include his “Concerto for Two Violins”, “Harpsichord Concerto” and “Violin Concerto” in E and A.

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Donizetti’s opera “The Elixir of Love”

London Coliseum, 8 St. Martin’s Lane, Trafalgar Square, London 51.509911 51.509911

12th, 19th and 24th February, 3rd, 5th, 11th, 16th and 23rd March 2010Donizetti’s “The Elixir of Love” is one of the most popular operatic romantic comedies of all time. The London Coliseum has chosen to shift the action from 19th-century Italy to small-town America in the 1950s, when a lovesick young mechanic believes that a travelling salesman can cure his broken heart.

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Ibsen’s “Ghosts”, at the Duchess Theatre

Duchess Theatre, Catherine Street, Covent Garden, London 51.512108 51.512108

11th February – 18th May 2010Lesley Sharp, Ian Glen, Malcolm Storry and Harry Treadaway will be starring in a new production of Ibsen’s “Ghosts”, at the Duchess Theatre.

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“Serenading Louie”, at the Donmar Warehouse

Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London 51.513959 51.513959

11th February – 27th March 2010“Serenading Louie” is Lanford Wilson’s timeless portrait of two suburban American couples struggling to deal with the harsh realities of adulthood as they enter their thirties. Disillusioned by work and struggling to keep their marriages alive, they desperately try to make sense of it all.

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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective — at Tate Modern

Tate Modern, Bankside, London 51.507467 51.507467

10th February – 3rd May 2010Tate Modern will be celebrating one of the most powerful American artists of his generation, in “Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective”. With an emphasis on his uniquely lyrical paintings of the 1940s, the exhibition will examine his extraordinary contribution to the world of Abstract Expressionism.

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PickTim Key’s “The Slutcracker”

Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, Soho, London 51.514502 51.514502

9th – 13th February 2010Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2009 Tim Key returns to the Soho Theatre with a brand new show — “The Slutcracker”. His new show is a confused procession of idiosyncratic poetry and prose arranged into a brittle, theatrical and precarious performance.

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Van Doesburg exhibition: “Constructing a New World”

Tate Modern, Bankside, London 51.507467 51.507467

4th February – 16th May 2010Tate Modern presents the first major UK exhibition devoted to the Dutch artist Theo Van Doesburg. Van Doesburg played a pivotal role in mid-century Modernism, and there will be over 80 different artists on display including works by Alexander Archipenko, Raoul Hausmann, El Lissitzky, Hans Richter, Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondrian.

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Defending The Caveman at Leicester Square Theatre

PickMark Little’s “Defending the Caveman”

Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, Leicester Square, London 51.511339 51.511339

2nd – 21st February 2010Australian comedian Mark Little was probably best known to British audiences as Joe Mangel in ‘Neighbours’ — but his Olivier Award-winning one-man comedy show “Defending the Caveman” has changed all that. It has become a worldwide hit, and the longest running solo play in Broadway history.

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PickMozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte” — Royal Opera House

Royal Opera House, Bow Street, Covent Garden, London 51.512888 51.512888

29th January – 17th February 2010The Royal Opera House is putting on a production of Mozart’s “Cosi Fan Tutte”. Conductor Julia Jones makes her Covent Garden debut after leading “Cosi Fan Tutte” to great acclaim at the Vienna State Opera.

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What’s On in London on Friday 12th February… everything from theatre shows and music concerts, to comedy gigs, art shows and exhibitions.

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