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Leatherheads
George Clooney directs and stars as Dodge Connelly, a charming but brash football star in this screwball comedy set in the 1920s. Renee Zellweger plays Lexie Littleton, a fast-talking cub reporter, who tries to resist her attraction to Dodge Connelly and becomes part of a love triangle when football star and war hero Carter Rutherford (John Krasniski) is drafted into the team to improve its failing fortunes. Rutherford falls heavily for the charms of wise-cracking Lexie even as she is planning to expose his war heroism as a fraud.

The American Scene at the British Museum
The underlying ordinariness of everyday life in America’s cities takes centre stage in this modernist exhibition; where people are shown getting ready for bed or sleeping on rooftops in the summer heat. The exhibition features prints of American society and culture from 1900 to 1960, and encompasses the arrival of modernism following the landmark Armory Show of 1913, the rise of the skyscrapers as the symbol of modern progress and prosperity, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and the effect of the rise of Fascism in Europe on artists’ political consciousness, the bombing of Pearl Harbour and American’s entry into the Second World War.

Entity
Can you dance an idea? Choreographer Wayne McGregor thinks so and his latest venture, Entity, explores the impulses of the mind through the body.

Entity continues on tour

The Butt
Will Self has described his new novel as an allegory of the invasion of Iraq. The allegory is centred on the mishaps of Tom Brodzinzki who is on holiday with his family in a continent which appears to be part Australia and part Iraq. Goaded by the country’s stringent anti-smoking laws, Tom has decided to quit -- but, as he flicks his last cigarette butt away it lands on the bald head of his elderly neighbour and because and because the neighbour is married to a local woman who belongs to a tribe with strict laws about reparation for injury, Tom finds himself entangled in the islands’ baffling legal code and ends up driving 5000 kilometres across the desert to hand over trade goods to his victim’s wife’s tribe.

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
This series of 16 plays performed across four different venues were first performed at the Edinburgh Festival under the title of Ravenhill for Breakfast. He did one play a day for the length of the festival. Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life.