Under the radar

Low-frequency listings
October 21, 2005
  • Euripides's Orestes gets a rare production at the Oxford Playhouse from 12th October—rarer still because it will be performed in ancient Greek.

 

  • Marc Isaacs's film Philip and His Seven Wives is a study in fanatic delusion: Philip lives in Brighton but thinks he is the King of Israel. It premieres as part of Sheffield international documentary festival, from 10th October.

 

  • Barbara Hepworth's oils and drawings may not startle like her sculptures, but her images of melancholy women and surgeons at work pack a punch despite the delicacy of their line. They go on show at the Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert, gallery, London, from 12th October.

 

  • Choreographer Cathy Marston premieres Ghosts at the Linbury Studio, London, from 22nd September. Her intense, poetic movement should find new resonances in Ibsen's most feverish play.

  • Sonja Linden draws on her time as writer-in-residence at the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture in Crocodile Seeking Refuge, a new play at the Lyric Hammersmith, London, now.

 

  • Composer-to-watch Edward Rushton's new songs, set to poems by Tony Harrison, could be a highlight of the Leeds lieder festival, on 2nd October at the Leeds College of Music.