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Every Thursday we will now bring you our top picks of the events in our town for the coming weekend.

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Richmond Theatre

Noël Coward's gloriously entertaining Private Lives is the inaugural touring show from the Nigel Havers Theatre Company.

The show, which runs until Saturday evening, stars the ever suave Havers opposite the Olivier Award winning Patricia Hodge.

Elyot and Amanda, who were once married, find themselves on honeymoon with their new partners, in the same hotel on the French Riviera, admiring the view from adjoining balconies. Their initial horror quickly evaporates and soon they are sharing cocktails.

On Sunday, the British Comedy Award winner Nina Conti, the quick-thinking queen of ventriloquism, brings her pioneering new dating show to Richmond for one night only.

And on Monday, Alex Horne, best known for Taskmaster and his many Radio 4 appearances, arrives with The Horne Section, his hugely popular musical and comedy show.

A former resident of Twickenham, she was a trailblazer in Britain and someone who has a special resonance in a time of pandemic.

In April 1721, when a smallpox epidemic was raging, Lady Mary took the courageous step of inoculating her three-year-old daughter, using a process she had witnessed when she lived in Turkey.

This action, opposed at the time by doctors, politicians and clerics, would eventually lead to the eradication of smallpox and the prevention of millions of deaths.

Not only a scientific campaigner, Lady Mary was a prolific writer, a feminist thinker and an enthusiastic traveller. She lived in Twickenham at the same time as Alexander Pope, who wrote her love letters until she rejected his advances, after which she became a target of his grotesque poetic satires.

This event, at the Old Town Hall, Richmond, on Saturday afternoon is chaired by biographer and historian Anne Sebba.

Many of the Festival's events are a sell-out, including a new approach to Greek mythology with three writers - Sarvat Hasin, Jennifer Saint and Charlotte Higgins – at the Old Town Hall on Friday.