In London tonight...

If the pace gets too much, stay in and watch the DVD release of Calander Girls
11 April 2012
The Weekender

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Pick of the night

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?
7.30pm, Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, N1. £6-£27.50. Tube: Angel, Highbury & Islington
Bestiality rears its horny head on the London stage in Edward Albee's controversial play in which Jonathan Pryce's fraught 50-year-old falls passionately in love with a goat called Sylvia.

What is more, that love is consummated - offstage and often - until an understandably upset wife, Kate Fahy's Stevie, intervenes. A parable on marriage, The Goat, with its persistent undertow of humour, is as humane as it is provocative.
020 7359 4404

For one night only

'Hope' Art Auction
7pm, Christie's Auction House, 8 King Street, SW1. £50, including champagne and shepherd's pie reception. Tube: Green Park
The War Child charity last year released the album Hope, a collection of specially penned songs, with all proceeds going to the aid of children in Iraq.

Now the same principle is applied to artworks, with Damien Hirst, Sam Taylor-Wood, Sir Peter Blake, Yoshito Nara and Banksy among the benevolent artists who have donated specially commissioned works based around the theme of hope to be auctioned off tonight.
020 7916 9276

Film

The British Animation Awards 2004
6.20pm, NFT2, South Bank, SE1. £7.50, £5.70 concs. Tube: Waterloo The public have chosen their picks from the latest in British animation, all on show tonight.
020 7930 3647

The Dreamers (18)
Across London
Bernando Bertolucci delivers a steamily intellectual piece, set during the Spring of Revolution in Paris '68, based around a ménage à trois involving three cinéphiles: a French brother and sister and a wide-eyed American student.

Cold Creek Manor
Selected cinemas across London Director Mike Figgis's film about a couple opting out of the rat-race for a spooky mansion in a weird village, with Sharon Stone and Dennis Quaid adding psychological complexity to a fine genre piece.

Shows

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
7.30pm, London Palladium, W1. £10-42.50. Tube: Oxford Circus
Boasting magnificent design (particularly on the eponymous auto) and memorable tunes, Adrian Noble's production is a great night out.
020 7494 5020

The Dice House
8pm, Arts Theatre, Great Newport Street, WC2. £24.50-£29.50 on the roll of six dice. Tube: Leicester Square
Paul Lucas's play, based on Luke Rhinehart's novel The Dice Man, may fail to maintain the consistency of its own mad logic, but it does provide comic flashes of inspired verbal absurdity and visual lunacy.
020 7836 3334

Food and Drink

East @ West
13-15 West Street, WC2. £70 for two with wine. Tube: Leicester Square
A fantastic new fusion restaurant that's just scooped the Tatler New Restaurant of the Year award.
020 7010 8600

My Old Dutch
131 High Holborn, London, WC1. £50 for two with wine. Tube: Holborn Dutch cuisine at premium prices in the West End - that's plenty of pancakes in a bewildering variety of flavours and all done to perfection.
020 7242 5200

Gordon's Wine Bar
47 Villiers Street, WC2. Tube: Embankment
Inconspicuous from the street, down the stairs it's a gothic cavern with a cosy, conspiratorial atmosphere and heady red wines. It's hard to think of a better place to while away a winter evening.
020 7930 1408

Events

Raw Materials
Until 11pm, Olivier Stalls Foyer, NT, South Bank, SE1. FREE! Tube: Waterloo Demonstrating some of the techniques used in the staging of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, currently showing at the NT - with models, puppets and photographs of work in progress.
020 7452 3400

Chemistry
6.30pm, Sugar Reef, Great Windmill Street, W1. £45. Tube: Piccadilly Circus
A pre-Valentine's singles' extravaganza, Chemistry boasts speed dating, salsa, "My Friend Fancies You", the Polaroid Encounters Wall and much more. With 1,500 expected to attend, you're bound to find at least one to take home.
020 7471 1099

Comedy and cabaret

Beautiful Octopus Club
7pm, Albany Theatre, Douglas Way, SE8. £6, £5 concs. Tube: New Cross
A Valentine's-themed Cabaret night - Heart 'n' Soul present live singers, comedians, DJs, open mics and a special chill-out chamber.
020 8692 4446

Ealing Live!
8pm, Ealing Studios, St Mary's Road, W5. £6.50. Tube: Ealing Broadway Quickfire sketch combos in the convivial home of British comedy. Tonight's line-up includes Simon Farnaby, Oram & Meeten, Waen Shepherd and James Edwards.
20 8584 5377

Clubs

YoYo
10pm-2am, Cherry Jam, 58 Porchester Road, W2. £7, £5 before 11pm. Tube: Royal Oak
The hip club plays host to DJs Seb Chew and Leo Greenslade, who blare out hip-hop and old-skool D'n'B.
020 7727 9950

Kash Point
10.45pm-3am, Moonlighting, 17 Greek Street, W1. ¤7 (£4.83), £3 concs. Tube: Leicester Square
Kinky Kash Point holds a Sexploitation special: performance artist Bishi and host Matthew Glamorre are among the pulls, along with cheap drinks and outrageous outfits.
020 7437 5782

Roller Disco
8pm-12pm, Canvas, Bagley's Studios, York Way, N1. £10 including skate hire. Tube: King's Cross
A worthy resurrection of the popular Eighties pursuit - impress the girls with the bruises on your knees.
020 7833 8301

Music

Viktoria Tolstoy
9pm, Pizza Express Jazz Club, 10 Dean Street, W1. £15. Tube: Tottenham Court Road
It's hard to think of a more intimidating forebear than Viktoria's great-great-grandfather Lev. Opting for jazz and soul over Napoleonic epics should put her on the path to success.
020 7439 8722

Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez
8pm, Bush Hall, 310 Uxbridge Road, W12. £12.50. Tube: Shepherd's Bush Legendary songwriter Chip surprised everyone by teaming up with Carrie, a bright young Texan violinist/vocalist.
020 8222 6933

Polar Bear
8pm, Spitz, 109 Commercial Street, E1. £8. Tube: Liverpool Street
Seb Rochford is a drummer who can make a kit sing; rolling snare patterns and off-kilter time signatures provide the backdrop to two lyrical horns and double-bass in this acclaimed jazz-combo.
020 7392 9032

Staying in

DVD - Calendar Girls
The cream of British leading ladies assemble, nude, for an inoffensive comedy based on the real-life posings of the Women's Institute.

... and for free

The Art of Flirtation
6.30pm, Godiva Chocolatier, 141 Regent Street, W1. FREE! Tube: Piccadilly Circus
Are you a hopeless bumbler when it comes to chat-up lines? Fear not, for professional flirting coach Peta Haskell, author of Secret of Attraction, is on hand to reveal all.
020 7439 2559

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