Who, What & Where: Adam Kay, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Howard Jacobson, concert at The Other Palace, photo exhibition
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SHOW: Doctor who?
You’ve read the book, seen the show, watched the TV series and now you can see the show again – with a difference. Former NHS doctor-turned-author Adam Kay is going on a nationwide tour with his new show This is Going to Hurt More, telling stories from his forthcoming book Undoctored. He’s at the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith on 14 November. adamkay.co.uk
FESTIVAL: That’s Entertainment
If David Baddiel, Luciana Berger, Howard Jacobson and Tracy-Ann Oberman sound like your kind of people get yourself down to the Bloomsbury Theatre on Sunday 11 September for an all-day festival of lectures, discussion, music, comedy and drama to celebrate the launch of the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism. David Baddiel will discuss his book Jews Don’t Count, Luciana Berger and Rachel Riley will be comparing their experiences of exclusion, antisemitism and misogyny that resulted from speaking out against Corbyn and Tracy-Ann Oberman will perform a scene from her production of The Merchant of Venice, which comes out next year. Howard Jacobson and Anthony Julius will be giving keynote lectures and there is a host of other well-known personas performing music and comedy. Tickets are £30. londonantisemitism.com/launch
Confessions of a Rabbi’s Daughter is a heart-warming musical by Emily Rose Simons, coming to The Other Palace as a concert production for just two performances on 21 and 22 September. Rachel is a budding Jewish matriarch in a prominent Orthodox London synagogue, weeks away from obtaining the last essential requirement to follow in her departed mother’s footsteps – a husband. Will she manage to keep herself, her community and family together, or find the courage to follow her heart in another direction? The show is performed by Tanya Truman, who recently produced the hilarious one-woman show Pickle by Deli Segal (which returns to the Park in November). theotherpalace.co.uk
The Wiener Holocaust Library has the UK’s largest archive of family papers related to Jewish refugees from Nazi Europe, including extensive collections of photographs: portraits, snapshots and albums. Family photographs have often been overlooked as historical or artistic objects in their own right but a new exhibition at the Wiener is designed to make you reconsider their significance. Most of the images show domestic everyday life, plus there are holiday snaps from the 1920s, photo-postcards sent during the First World War, and formal studio portraits from the 1890s. Photography in these decades underwent radical changes, and this is reflected throughout the exhibition. The objects on display demonstrate an image-savvy public, using photography to express their identities and belonging within national cultures and local communities. Admission is free.
There was a time… Jewish Family Photographs before 1939 is showing at the Wiener Holocaust Library in Russell Square, London 21 September – 4 November 2022. wienerholocaustlibrary.org
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