MORE fun as Tempo Theatre presents its favourite genre with “Spider’s Web” to mark 125 years of Agatha Christie whodunits. When a murder takes place in Clarissa’s drawing room, she finds real-life drama hard to cope with. Belconnen Theatre, May 15-23, bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
THEATRE eccentric Miriam Margolyes is joined by pianist John Martin in “The Importance of Being Miriam”. The show reflects on the literary giants and gives us Margolyes’ take on characters such as Miss Prism and Juliet’s Nurse. Canberra Theatre, May 6-9, bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
JOHANNES Kuhnen’s art is not set in stone – not always, anyway. Formerly head of the Gold and Silversmithing Workshop at the ANU for more than 29 years, Kuhnen has now departed from aluminium and titanium to produce brooches, pendants and rings using sedimentary and volcanic rocks and stones. “Painting in Stone”, Bilk Gallery, Manuka, May 8-June 6. Opening May 8, 6pm, all welcome.
INSPIRED by The Hot Club of France’s guitar virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Ultrafox appears at “Jazz in Concert” at The Gods on Tuesday, May 5. Peter Baylor (guitar and vocals), Jon Delaney (guitar), Jon Hunt (clarinet and sax) and Kain Borlase (bass) will perform gypsy jazz and related styles. Dinner at 6pm, music at 7.30pm. Bookings to 6248 5538 or thegodscafe@gmail.com
IGITUR Nos Chamber Choir provides the next free concert at the High Court, 1.30pm, on Sunday, May 3. Led by Matthew Stuckings and supported by a small orchestra, the choir’s performance will include excerpts from Bach’s “St John’s Passion” and a cappella music from the 16th and 20th centuries. Free, but bookings advisable to hcourt.gov.au/about/concerts
CANBERRA Glassworks celebrates its eighth birthday in concert with Canberra International Music Festival on May 1, as musicians Emma Greenhill and Felix Hoffman-Este play Sarah Humphrey’s cast-glass violin and cello, “A Giocherellare”. And until June 7 at the Glassworks, “ReInventing the Weave” shows the unique, hand-blown, woven-glass sculptures of Jenni Kemarre Martiniello.
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