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TRAVELLER
Meetings in
Marrakech
LONDON
Newly renovated, the Leighton House
Museum plays host to paintings by
Winston Churchill (yes, that one) and
Berber Hassan El Glaoui, who shared
a love of the Moroccan landscape.
leightonhouse.co.uk
20 JANUARY-31 MARCH
Ai Weiwei
COPENHAGEN
Named by ArtReview as the world’s
most influential artist last year,
Chinese dissenter Ai Weiwei raises
eyebrows and hackles with his
boundary-pushing pieces. This
retrospective of his noughties work
moves and intrigues.
louisiana.dk
UNTIL 12 FEBRUARY
Look Closer: Yoram
Gross Photography
KRAKOW
Musings on mortality and
metaphor are rife at 85-year-old
photographer YoramGross’s
exhibition. His zoomed-in images
examine the surface of objects
to reveal the beauty of ageing.
galiciajewishmuseum.org
UNTIL 8 JULY
ON RAINYDAYS
What’s going on?
MADRID
Theatricals in a red-light
district aren’t uncommon, but they’re
not usually as literal as those at Micro
Teatro por Dinero. The Tiny Theatre for
Money, as it translates in English, began
as a pop-up in an abandoned former
brothel in Madrid’s trendy Calle de la
Ballesta area in 2009 and has now found
a permanent home nearby.
Filmmaker Miguel Alcantud and
his teamof local actors, writers and
directors offer a totally new concept
in theatre: five 15-minute plays on a
theme, delivered to a micro-audience
of not more than 15. There are six
performances a night of each work –
their times shown on a screen in the
upstairs bar, as if in an airport departure
lounge – and the plays, which are in
Spanish and change eachmonth, all
share a theme – January’s is “For the
Family”.
From€4.
teatropordinero.com
Red Light Productions
LONDON
Steven Spielberg’s take
on the hitWest End show about a
young boy who follows his horse to the
trenches ofWorldWar I comes out on 13
January, but what’s the truth behind the
phenomenally successful story?
1
At the outbreak of war in 1914, more
than 140,000 horses were purchased
for the BritishArmy in only 12 days.
2
Up to eight million horses died during
WorldWar I. Amonument to them can be
found at Brook Gate, Park Lane.
3
Michael Morpurgo wrote
War Horse
The story of a boy’s
search for his horse
in the battlefields of
WWI has been a
worldwide success
after meetingWWI veterans in his local
pub in Iddesleigh, Devon.
4
Since its 2007 premiere, more than
1.5million people worldwide have seen
the theatrical adaptation.
5
The play uses 18 puppets, including two
horses, a goose and two swallows.
6
The
War Horse: Fact & Fiction
exhibition
at the National Army Museum features
a sculpture of a horse in No Man’s Land
that was made from250kg of wire.
7
Spielberg’s filmwas shot in secret,
under the codename “Dartmoor”.
Things you never knew about...
The Real War Horse
Have a theatrical
quickie at Madrid’s
MicroTeatro por
Dinero
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