Lyn Melville-James
Describing Landscape
7 – 20 July
From the monumental geography of landscapes to the interwoven detail, nature is in a state of perpetual change in Lyn-Melville James paintings.
Lines, patterns and slabs of colour give emotional force to these works, which go beyond describing landscape to describing “a never ending orchestration of life force”.
A powerful show which includes graphite drawings, lino cuts, etchings and pastels.
Gallery open:
Weds – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Lyn Melville-James
Describing Landscape
7 – 20 July
From the monumental geography of landscapes to the interwoven detail, nature is in a state of perpetual change in Lyn-Melville James paintings.
Lines, patterns and slabs of colour give emotional force to these works, which go beyond describing landscape to describing “a never ending orchestration of life force”.
A powerful show which includes graphite drawings, lino cuts, etchings and pastels.
Gallery open:
Weds – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Lyn Melville-James
Describing Landscape
7 – 20 July
From the monumental geography of landscapes to the interwoven detail, nature is in a state of perpetual change in Lyn-Melville James paintings.
Lines, patterns and slabs of colour give emotional force to these works, which go beyond describing landscape to describing “a never ending orchestration of life force”.
A powerful show which includes graphite drawings, lino cuts, etchings and pastels.
Gallery open:
Weds – Fri: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 11.00 – 17.00
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Alces Productions presents
The Lady With A Dog
The Chekhov story that the writer Vladimir Nabokov called ‘one of the greatest stories ever written’ returns to the UK stage in a full-length bittersweet romantic comedy transported to Jazz Age Britain.
Damian Granville is a banker and devoted family man with an unconventional way of taking his summer holidays: he travels alone and looks for a woman to seduce. This particular year he spots a beautiful young lady walking a white Pomeranian dog. How can he resist? He’s a skillful player and sure of success. Except Anne Dennis isn’t quite what he bargains for.
★★★★★ “Mark Giesser… recognises the responsibilities of taking on Chekhov demands and, with a dancer’s grace, solves them perfectly.” – Broadway World.
Previous shows by Alces Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse: Sirens of the Silver Screen; Strike Up the Band; Once Upon a Mattress; Call Me Madam; Luck Be a Lady; How To Build a Better Tulip.
Written and Directed by Mark Giesser
Choreographer: Xena Gusthart
Running Time: 2 hours (TBC)
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
AIM Theatre presents
Just Barking
by Joe Wiltshire Smith
Performed in rep with That Day on the 18th & 20th October
Stumbling back into her flat drunk at 10:30am, Tammy, a trainee nurse, decides to confess EVERYTHING to camera. To confront some demons, co-workers, postmen… this could take a while… You think you know her, but maybe you don’t know half of it.
Tammy’s life is a frantic mess of drink, insomnia and patient drama, with the usual hangover worse than death the next day – ’til one night, coming home from work, she get’s some self-help advice from the most unlikely of gurus… in fact, he’s a Chihuahua.
A richly black comedy, this one-woman, drastic reimagining of Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ investigates the strain on healthcare, the toxic cycle of hustle culture, the deafening toll on mental health and the rediscovery of the self.
Running Time: TBC (One act with no interval)
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Alces Productions presents
The Lady With A Dog
The Chekhov story that the writer Vladimir Nabokov called ‘one of the greatest stories ever written’ returns to the UK stage in a full-length bittersweet romantic comedy transported to Jazz Age Britain.
Damian Granville is a banker and devoted family man with an unconventional way of taking his summer holidays: he travels alone and looks for a woman to seduce. This particular year he spots a beautiful young lady walking a white Pomeranian dog. How can he resist? He’s a skillful player and sure of success. Except Anne Dennis isn’t quite what he bargains for.
★★★★★ “Mark Giesser… recognises the responsibilities of taking on Chekhov demands and, with a dancer’s grace, solves them perfectly.” – Broadway World.
Previous shows by Alces Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse: Sirens of the Silver Screen; Strike Up the Band; Once Upon a Mattress; Call Me Madam; Luck Be a Lady; How To Build a Better Tulip.
Written and Directed by Mark Giesser
Choreographer: Xena Gusthart
Running Time: 2 hours (TBC)
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Whitman is an artist/printmaker who frequently draws inspiration from myths, literature and story-telling. Her engagement in a range of media and her understanding of the historical context of particular material processes inform her fascination with the idea of transformation. At Highgate Gallery she will be showing works created inresponse to: the Greek myth Demeter and Persephone; Emily Bront’s novel Wuthering Heights; and, the subject of Transformation itself, works which Whitman refers to collectively as ‘Alchemical Allegories’. The thread binding her content together is the notion of a domain existing within, and beyond – the material world.
Gallery times: Wednesdays to Fridays 13:00-17:00,
Saturdays 11:00-16:00, Sundays 11:00-17:00,
Mondays & Tuesdays Closed
Private View: Friday 15 September 2023 18:00-20:30
Highgate Gallery Rosalind Whitman Transformations – Lizards Bite
Handmade In Highgate is back at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution for the September designer/maker fair. Come and find up to 30 of the UK’s brightest and best designer makers. The HLSI library will be also be hosting a book sale. Entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Open:
Friday: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
Handmade In Highgate is back at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution for the September designer/maker fair. Come and find up to 30 of the UK’s brightest and best designer makers. The HLSI library will be also be hosting a book sale. Entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Open:
Friday: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
Handmade In Highgate is back at the Highgate Literary and Scientific Institution for the September designer/maker fair. Come and find up to 30 of the UK’s brightest and best designer makers. The HLSI library will be also be hosting a book sale. Entrance is FREE and everyone is welcome.
Open:
Friday: 5pm – 8pm
Saturday: 10am – 6pm
Sunday 11am – 5pm
Alces Productions presents
The Lady With A Dog
The Chekhov story that the writer Vladimir Nabokov called ‘one of the greatest stories ever written’ returns to the UK stage in a full-length bittersweet romantic comedy transported to Jazz Age Britain.
Damian Granville is a banker and devoted family man with an unconventional way of taking his summer holidays: he travels alone and looks for a woman to seduce. This particular year he spots a beautiful young lady walking a white Pomeranian dog. How can he resist? He’s a skillful player and sure of success. Except Anne Dennis isn’t quite what he bargains for.
★★★★★ “Mark Giesser… recognises the responsibilities of taking on Chekhov demands and, with a dancer’s grace, solves them perfectly.” – Broadway World.
Previous shows by Alces Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse: Sirens of the Silver Screen; Strike Up the Band; Once Upon a Mattress; Call Me Madam; Luck Be a Lady; How To Build a Better Tulip.
Written and Directed by Mark Giesser
Choreographer: Xena Gusthart
Running Time: 2 hours (TBC)
Alces Productions presents
The Lady With A Dog
The Chekhov story that the writer Vladimir Nabokov called ‘one of the greatest stories ever written’ returns to the UK stage in a full-length bittersweet romantic comedy transported to Jazz Age Britain.
Damian Granville is a banker and devoted family man with an unconventional way of taking his summer holidays: he travels alone and looks for a woman to seduce. This particular year he spots a beautiful young lady walking a white Pomeranian dog. How can he resist? He’s a skillful player and sure of success. Except Anne Dennis isn’t quite what he bargains for.
★★★★★ “Mark Giesser… recognises the responsibilities of taking on Chekhov demands and, with a dancer’s grace, solves them perfectly.” – Broadway World.
Previous shows by Alces Productions at Upstairs at the Gatehouse: Sirens of the Silver Screen; Strike Up the Band; Once Upon a Mattress; Call Me Madam; Luck Be a Lady; How To Build a Better Tulip.
Written and Directed by Mark Giesser
Choreographer: Xena Gusthart
Running Time: 2 hours (TBC)
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October
A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.
A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!
Running Time: TBC
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October
A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.
A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!
Running Time: TBC
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October
A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.
A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!
Running Time: TBC
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October
A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.
A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!
Running Time: TBC
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October
A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.
A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!
Running Time: TBC
Garden Suburb Theatre presents
Murder With Ghosts
12 – 15 October
A spine tingling, rollercoaster of suspense, spooks and laughter as eerie encounters unfold at Quittendon Manor in this hilarious murder mystery spoof.
A killer is on the loose at Lady Cholmondley’s weekend house party and only the spirits can save her in this ghastly ghostly comedy. …You’ll die laughing!
Running Time: TBC
The Brownings Through Casa Guidi Windows
by Harry Meacher
A Fundraiser in Aid of Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Venice – 12th December 1889.
The great English poet Robert Browning is dying. In his last hours he summons the spirit of his beloved wife Elizabeth Barrett Browning (“Ba”).
Together they explore their lives in Casa Guidi. the apartment they shared in Florence.
Judi Bowker (Elizabeth Barrett Browning) and Harry Meacher (Robert Browning) star in an intimate portrayal of one of the most poignant love stories of all time.
This performance is kindly presented as a fundraiser for Upstairs at the Gatehouse. All proceeds go towards the theatre’s maintenance and upgrades.
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
AIM Theatre presents
That Day
by Ben Hannigan
Performed in rep with Just Barking on the 19th & 21st October
A confused introvert trying to write a song. A dream-like girl that appears out of nowhere and a very stern mother that only wants what’s best for her son. This gripping yet hilarious play that touches on isolation, mental health, family life in unprecedented times, and very entertaining life experiences
Running Time: TBC (One act with no interval)
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
AIM Theatre presents
Just Barking
by Joe Wiltshire Smith
Performed in rep with That Day on the 18th & 20th October
Stumbling back into her flat drunk at 10:30am, Tammy, a trainee nurse, decides to confess EVERYTHING to camera. To confront some demons, co-workers, postmen… this could take a while… You think you know her, but maybe you don’t know half of it.
Tammy’s life is a frantic mess of drink, insomnia and patient drama, with the usual hangover worse than death the next day – ’til one night, coming home from work, she get’s some self-help advice from the most unlikely of gurus… in fact, he’s a Chihuahua.
A richly black comedy, this one-woman, drastic reimagining of Gogol’s ‘Diary of a Madman’ investigates the strain on healthcare, the toxic cycle of hustle culture, the deafening toll on mental health and the rediscovery of the self.
Running Time: TBC (One act with no interval)
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
AIM Theatre presents
That Day
by Ben Hannigan
Performed in rep with Just Barking on the 19th & 21st October
A confused introvert trying to write a song. A dream-like girl that appears out of nowhere and a very stern mother that only wants what’s best for her son. This gripping yet hilarious play that touches on isolation, mental health, family life in unprecedented times, and very entertaining life experiences
Running Time: TBC (One act with no interval)
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
An exhibition of paintings.
Pamela Willoughby’s art transitioned from a mood of dark and brooding to one of bright optimism. This echoed the changes in her life as appreciation of the freedom and beauty of nature helped her to overcome her struggles with polio and an oppressive father. Every brush stroke was her expression of that freedom and a testament to her indestructible will to fight for her life to succeed.
Pamela Willoughby: Beauty Amidst Hardship at Highgate Gallery.
Open:
Friday 13 October: 13 .00 – 17.00
Saturday 14 October: 11.00
– 16.00
Sunday 15 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 18, Thursday 19, Friday 20 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Saturday 21 October: 11.00 – 16.00
Sunday 22 October: 11.00 – 17.00
Wednesday 25, Thursday 26 October: 13.00 – 17.00
Escape Artists Theatre Company presents
Bess – The Other Houdini
The startling true story of Harry Houdini’s beloved wife and her breakdown in the aftermath of his death. The world knew Bess as Houdini’s loyal partner, both on and off stage, his inspiration, his guiding star – Or was their perfect marriage their greatest illusion?
It is 1929, the height of the Spiritualist frenzy. Houdini, the world’s first Superstar, has been dead two years and all attempts to contact him have failed. Yet surely if anyone can break through from the Other Side, it’s Harry.
Meanwhile his widow, Bess, his beloved partner both offstage and on, is alone and lost, her fragile health already stretched thin by years of living in daily fear as her husband was buried alive, flung manacled into icy rivers and dangled upside down ten stories high in a strait jacket. Now she is deeply in debt, struggling with addiction and desperate to stay in the public eye.
When she is accused of rigging a séance, and with the press hounding her as a fraud, she is forced to flee to a private sanitarium. Does she truly believe her husband has reached out to her from the Beyond? Or, haunted as she is by her own memories and hallucinations, can she even tell the difference? Her doctor is up-to-date with the latest treatments but neither he, nor her celebrity-obsessed nurse, nor her hovering family, can make the slightest dent in her despair.
As she battles with her own demons, she stumbles upon devastating clues about Houdini’s secret life, leading to the revelation that their perfect marriage may have been the greatest illusion of them all. But if everything she built her life upon was only for show, how will she be able to survive Life after Harry?
Running Time: TBC