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Celebrated harpsichordist and conductor Trevor Pinnock will be curating a series of evenings of music, the first of which will take place on 2 and 3 March.  Entitled Mozart in London, the concert is inspired by the time the eight-year-old Mozart spent writing and performing in London during the 1760s. Pinnock is regarded as having been instrumental in reviving the performance of early music in recent times.

Fêted vocal ensemble I Fagiolini, who specialize in performing Italian and English music of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, will present two contrasting pieces from early seventeenth century Venice. Alongside Monteverdi’s Madrigals and Duets, Peter Wilson MBE will stage musical comedy Barca di Venezia per Padova (The Boat from Venice to Padua), written in 1605 by Banchieri.

It's certainly novel for Southwark Playhouse to open their new space in Borough/Elephant and Castle with Claire Luckham's Trafford Tanzi, which features live wresting, but the resulting show is all flash and no substance, with a number of weak elements not quite making up for the excitement generated by setting a musical/play in a luchador ring. 

Behind today's door are £10 tickets for Feathers in the Snow at Southwark Playhouse until 22 December!

While taking a deeper look at London tickets recently, I'm growing very excited about recent developments in "dynamic ticketing" – a new way of selling tickets that has vast implications for London's theatre landscape.

Anya Reiss rewrites The Seagull to include mobile phones as the norm and a laptop tragedy amongst the skittish characters, pre-occupied by their insipid day-to-day lives on the Isle of Man, despite apparent fame and fortunes. It’s cleverly quiet and unassuming with a cast of extraordinary subtlety. At the Southwark Playhouse.

Victor/Victoria is a show about love and fame consumed in a story of confused sexuality, double-cross-dressing and show business – a plot for a musical if ever I heard one. This new production is provocatively but precisely presented in the surprisingly cabaret setting of the stripped bare Vault at the Southwark Playhouse.

Tanika's Journey is an emotional rollercoaster and a worthwhile show for both hearing and deaf audiences, with an interesting perspective on the familiar, if somewhat un-talked about, journey of a refugee.

A few delightful warnings – don’t sit on the front row if you don’t wish to be flirted with by some very gorgeous, charming and naughty characters, and don’t sit to the sides of the stage if you don’t wish to be snuggled a little. At the Southwark Playhouse.

Seb Harcombe’s production of the The Illusion embodies Tony Kushner’s fascination with the strange and mystical. Through the twists and turns of the non-linear narrative, the play asks the question: “What in this world is real and not seeming?” It is a polished production overall and with committed performances, but I found myself strangely unaffected emotionally. At Southwark Playhouse. 

Often considered 'unproduceable', Jerry Herman's bouncily-scored backstage musical gets a dark and distinctive reworking from talented director Thom Southerland, and is graced with an act of pure class in Laura Pitt-Pulford's beautifully pitched Mabel. At the Southwark Playhouse.

Summer and Smoke is mired in everything Tennessee Williams: set in the deep south, full of forbidden yearning and masked lust and irredeemably melancholic, and See it in Your Head's production captures the lamentable tale with wonderful poise, although it's on in the wrong venue. At the Southwark Playhouse.