The Walworth Farce

TO 18 MARCH, SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE ELEPHANT southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

The Walworth Farce is a remarkable play about what can happen when we become stuck in the stories we tell about our lives.

Visceral and tender, it combines hilarious moments with shocking realism. First performed in Galway, Cork and Dublin in 2006 it received its London premiere at the National Theatre in 2008.

Festival

Women of the World Festival

10-12 March

SOUTHBANK CENTRE

WOW is the world’s biggest and most comprehensive festival celebrating women, girls and non-binary people. Discussion, debate and performance include Emma Carroll and Lauren Child presenting The Little Match Girl Strikes Back (pictured). southbankcentre.co.uk

THEATRE

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

15 March - 1 April

BARBICAN THEATRE

Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk’s genre-defying novel comes to the stage in an adaptation by Complicité directed by Simon McBurney. complicite.org

BALLET

Woolf Works

1-23 March

ROYAL OPERA HOUSE

Wayne McGregor’s acclaimed triptych Woolf Works recreates the emotions, themes and fluid style of three of Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novels, Mrs Dalloway, Orlando, and The Waves, as well as elements of her autobiographical writings that echo aspects of her eventful life . roh.org.uk

Sasha Bowles: Taking Liberties with the Masters

Until May 2023

THE EXHIBITIONIST HOTEL

Oil painting interventions onto images of ‘Old Master’ painting that are cut from discarded art books. These oil paintings are a mischievous homage – a collaboration of sorts that remove the human elements of the sitter and seamlessly replacing these parts with replications from other parts of the same painting. sashabowles.co.uk