What's on in Clapham this weekend

Good morning, and welcome to your weekly round up of What's on in Clapham.

Every Thursday we compile all the eye-catching events occurring in and nearby Clapham over the weekend. 

Read on for Clapham's not to be missed outings this week, and remember, you can add your event for FREE using the Nub It button!

Friday, March 10: Live music - High Windows

High Windows, formed in Leeds during lockdown, ask all the hard questions. What is there to like? Are we all outsiders? All of this, over the backdrop of sparkling riffs and stadium-sized choruses. High Windows have something to say.

In Leeds the band cut their teeth in the city's notable indie venues (Hyde Park Book Club, Brudenell Social Club and The Lending Rooms to name a few). Now back based in hometown London, they have just released their debut single Love At The End Of The World. Raised at a time where they were sure things were only getting worse, this song is the rallying call to the one thing that can get us out alive – love. 'Love At The End Of The World' leaps into a tale of early-morning tempestuous love.

Until March 11: The Emperor's New Clothes

Fashion designer extraordinaire The Emperor is on a ruthless rise to the top, but a disappointing Winter collection has Berlin's fashion scene questioning whether this fashionista has lost his touch… Rumours of a cutting-edge new fabric, spearheaded by an innovative Parisian duo, may be just what The Emperor needs to secure his place in fashion history! 

This raucous, tongue-in-cheek adaptation of The Emperor's New Clothes brings a familiar tale of ego and deception to the 21st century, shining a (less than flattering) light on the dark side of fashion and the lengths people will go to stay in the limelight.  

Until March 11: Wild Country

An intimate and absurd one-person exploration of motherhood, exile, and transformation.

"I prowl the room sniffing the fetid air, they've been muck spreading the fields. I run out into the back garden, nose to the ground. In the centre of the newly planted hydrangeas, I get on all fours and dig. I open my mouth and drop my red spandex costume into its forever grave"

Wild Country is a fictional autobiography that charts the course of one woman's midlife when she becomes pregnant and moves to the edge of a marsh in rural Kent, England. This larger-than-life tale of identity, loss and dislocation spiralling into absurd and hairy extremes is part stand-up, part storytelling, and part myth.

Leaving behind her edgy urban dwelling in Toronto, a vibrant theatre career, and elderly Jewish parents, Edith finds herself increasingly isolated, raising small children, surrounded by nothing but sheep. Amidst rural politics and the news from back home of her mother's newly diagnosed Alzheimers, Edith's unravelling begins.

Saturday, March 11: Labyrinth

Hovering ambiguously between murder and vivid fantasy, Labyrinth depicts a woman on the edge,  

Fiercely feminist and graphic in its poetic detail, Labyrinth tells the story of a woman desperate to break free of the entanglements of a love affair that has turned toxic. Has she actually killed her lover? Is this a violent reaction to coercive control? 

Physical theatre meets visceral poetry in this intense and darkly comic monologue starring Portuguese actress Marta Carvalho. 

Originally written in Portuguese by Moncho Rodriguez, Labyrinth has been toured extensively by Marta Carvalho in Portugal, Spain and Brazil. Now in new English translation by Marta Carvalho and Mark C. Hewitt. 

Saturday, March 11: Mung_Grul

As the name suggests mungrul is a genre mashing mixed breed  claiming influence from jazz and blues with heavy rock/ grunge roots. With a style once referred to as "angry man's jazz" the two piece from Kingston give the off the same intensity that would put most heavy bands to shame yet still having the control of a singer songwriter where the energy of the crowd can go from moshpits to midnight mass.

Until March 19: Murder Ballad!

In 1923 Agatha Christie perfected the murder mystery. In 2023 Hot Cousin will butcher it.

Become a detective and piece together an online collage of clues over the course of the fortnight, ending in a big online messy gathering where the murderer is revealed. 

This ode to Agatha Christie in a digital space exploits the short form nature of social media to serve daily doses of high camp crime. Loosely inspired by The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Christie's own disappearance and true crime culture, Murder Ballad! asks; what can the internet bring to solving a mystery? How can we unite across the globe to become Hercule Poirot? And WHO THE BLOODY HELL DUNNIT? 

Murder Ballad! will contain: internet drama, camp restagings, testimonials, thinly veiled political satire, memes, live stream arguments, deep dives, surreal response videos, audio walks and murder. A lot of murder. 

Until March 12: She

An enthralling new play inspired by The Seven Ages of Man speech in Shakespeare's As You Like It.

Will she stop the baby crying? Exact revenge on the school bully? Fall in love and be loved? Protest to change the world? Accept advice from her mother's friends? Come to terms with an unexpected illness? Grow old with dignity?

Charting the experiences of different women from childhood to old age, these stories, each with an intriguing twist, are visceral, poignant, and laced with humour.

Sunday, March 12: Open Lab - Mary & Her Monster

What does it mean to mother? What are the sacrifices worth making to create? What are the unforeseen realities after birthing your creation?  

Mary and Her Monster is an interactive performance currently in development about mothering and monstrosity. It draws parallels with Mary Shelley and her Frankenstein, exploring the tension between the power of mothering and the repulsion of those who mother. Everyone lauds an innovator, a creator, a founder, while excluding those birthing actual human life.