What's on in Richmond this weekend

By Rory Poulter

31st Mar 2022 | Local News

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Circus Vegas

Until April 18 - Roll Up Roll Up Circus Vegas is in Town!

Circus Vegas arrives in the UK for its first full British tour in over four years with its first stop at Richmond, Old Deer Park.

The show promises to 'combine all the elements of a circus with all the glitz, glamour and spectacle you would expect when you think of Vegas'.

Amazing high wire walkers, hula hoop queen, quick-change artistes, wheel of death performers, amazing aerialists and even the ultimate globe of death stunt riders, all hosted by an American ringmaster and superstar Mexican clown Eddy.

Find out more here.

Richmond Theatre

Sunday – 'Ancestors: An Evening with Alice Roberts' is returning after a sell-out run last Autumn.

What can a grave tell us about a person? Did the Neanderthals bury their dead? Why was a man from the Alps buried in Wiltshire, four thousand years ago? How is genetics revolutionising what we know about the deep past? And what does all this mean for us, today?

These are just some of the questions Alice will be exploring as she takes us on a tour of her pick of the most fascinating burials in Britain, with behind-the-scenes insights from digs and filming.

Saturday – Bob Harris & Danny Baker, two of the nation's best broadcasters, have unparalleled experience of witnessing the great names of modern music up close.

They have been back stage, front stage, at home and on the road with virtually every legend in the business. They got beans. And they're gonna spill 'em.

Find out more here.

Orange Tree Theatre Until April 16 – Tom Fool by Franz Xaver Kroetz. A dark and unnervingly funny play about how capitalism creeps into the minutiae of one family's life. Every night Martha listens to the minute details of husband Otto's day at the factory. He's a man with big dreams but is stuck in a job where he feels like a cog in the machine. Their teenage son Ludwig just wishes he had a job, or at least his own space, far far away from his parents. When money goes missing, a family on the brink hurtles over the edge, and Martha has to decide whether she will stay to pick up the pieces. Find out more here. OSO Arts Centre, Barnes Thursday – 2019 Edinburgh Fringe sellout 'Press' is presented in a double bill with brand-new short play 'The Kindness of Strangers'. Friday/Saturday - April Fools Comedy Cabaret . A two-day celebration of the most creative new voices in comedy today. The April Fool Festival will see TV names and rising stars of the alternative scene run riot in the Barnes theatre and comedy venue. Opening the festival is a comedy cabaret, hosted by Colin Hoult as Anna Mann (star of Ricky Gervais' After Life) with performances from Jamie D'Souza, John Robertson, Julia Masli, Viggo Venn, Lorna Rose Treen and Aruhan Galieva. Saturday offers the comedy, Christian Brighty Playboy, which is a steamy period drama pageant of romantic absurdity and nonsense. Find out more here. Richmond Light Orchestra - St Mary's Church, Church St, Twickenham Saturday – 'Sound of the Seas' performance by a collective of amateur musicians in support of the British Red Cross Ukraine Appeal. Come along for an evening of show tunes, film themes and light classical music inspired by seas and rivers. Featuring music from John Williams, Cole Porter, Alan Menken, James Horner and more. Find out more here. The Dave Kelly Band - Eel Pie Club – The Cabbage Patch, Twickenham Thursday - Dave Kelly is known as Britain's finest blues slide guitarist, as well as being an excellent vocalist. He is joint lead singer in The Blues Band of which he was a founder member with Paul Jones. Dave Kelly and Paul Jones have also been touring with acoustic duo tours over the past 20 years. Dave does similar tours with Scottish soul queen, Maggie Bell. His professional career has scanned over 50 years and he has worked with many of his heroes. As well as Hooker, House and Wolf, he has played with Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, and Freddie King. The Dave Kelly Band is Dave on guitar and vocals, Pete Emery on guitar, K. T. Homer on bass and vocals, Rob Millis on keyboards and Sam Kelly on drums. Find out more here. Comedy at The Bearcat Club – Turks Head, St Margarets Saturday – The bill this week features stand-up from A J Roberts, Alistair Barrie, Seann Walsh, perhaps best known from many TV panel show performance and a controversial appearance on Strictly Come Dancing, joins this week's line-up. Also on the bill are Alisdair Beckett-King, Athena Kugblenu, Steven N Allen, from the Mash. Find out more here. The Grand Tour - Strawberry Hill House, Twickenham Horace Walpole was fascinated by Florence and the Medici family. Strawberry Hill contained a conspicuous number of Florentine works of art received as gifts or acquired thanks to the intervention of his friend Horace Mann. This latest 'In Focus' display brings back some of these magnificent treasures. Find out more here. Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington Saturday - Chris Difford: I Never Thought It Would Happen – But It Did + Katey Brooks. Chris Difford is a Grammy nominated and double Ivor Novello Award-winning lyricist, who has brought us characters and sketches from everyday life. At the same time, he has successfully turned the mundane into the beautiful and the urbane into the exquisite for over 40 years. With his collaborator, Squeeze co-founder Glenn Tilbrook, Chris has written some of the most enduring and best-loved songs of our time such as Up The Junction, Cool For Cats, Labelled With Love, Tempted plus many others. Find out more here. Teddington Choral Society Spring Concert – All Saints, Kingston Saturday - Featuring Benjamin Britten's 'Saint Nicolas' and Bob Chilcott's 'Songs and Cries of London Town'. As usual, TCS will be accompanied by its talented pianist Phil Culling. The concert will also feature pianist Elspeth Wilkes, tenor Joseph Doody, organist Peter Jaekel, the English Sinfonietta ensemble together with the Tiffin School's Boys Choir. Find out more here.

     

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