If you’re under 26 and spend all of your hard earned money on theatre tickets, you won’t know what to spend your money on now.

I guess it’s old news, but still quite unbelievable: ‘A night less ordinary’ – an Arts Council England scheme which will provide 618,000 free theatre tickets to anyone under 26 in more than 200 venues across England, between February 2009 and March 2011. Yep, they are saving our asses in the aftermath of the credit crunch, now we can spend our money on good food and drinks in the theatre bar before a show – definitely a night less ordinary. Huzzah.

In London the theatres include: Roundhouse, Trafalgar Studios, The Gate Theatre, Barbican, The National Theatre, Blue Elephant Theatre, Battersea Arts Centre, Arts Depot and many others. Pay attention though, terms & conditions vary from theatre to theatre; in some theatres the offer is available for all performances, in others it is not, and for some performances you will have to book tickets in advance, for others you won’t…

Transience - mixed media exhibition at Shunt

Check out Transience, one of this week’s events at Shunt.

Rosalind Davis is a mixed media painter, Michaela Nettle an artist film-maker and Shelly Love is a dance for camera artist.

Rosalind Davis shall be showing a series of paintings and installations in the space highlighting community spaces that are a visual echo of human experience.

Michaela Nettell projects slow, shifting video sequences onto glass, imagining ways cities are transformed by their inhabitants’ dreams and desires.

Shelly Love shows her film ‘The Forgotten Circus’. A Circus adrift … Forgotten…lost forever in time. Devised and Directed by Shelly Love, performed by Circus Space Performers and Gerard Bell, featuring music by the Irrepressibles.

Curated by Irina Stark

Transience by Rosalind Davis, Michaela Nettle & Shelly Love
The exhibition is on from Wed 11th to Sat 21st of Feb at Shunt,
20 Stainer St., SE1 9RL

Complicite’s latest production ‘Shun-kin’ (with actors from the Setogaya Theatre in Tokyo) is inspired by the work of Japanese writer Jun’ichiro Tanizaki, and is a real cultural treat – even if you don’t know much about Japanese traditions. Read our double-review.