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Performance Metronome: Chequerboard It’s a decade
since John Lambert aka Chequerboard released The Unfolding which came five years after Penny Black but he is primed to bridge the gap this summer with Souvenir and, as always, the wait will be worthwhile. Homebeat’s Metronome series affords us a first chance to see what beauty and splendour has been stirring his soul in the interim. His live show will be imbued by the presence of Barry Halpin (Crash Ensemble) on guitar and Mary Barnecutt and Lioba Petrie on cellos. Other shows in the series include Ordnance Survey’s Nomos: O’Riada Reimagined (March 16), Zeropunkt (March 23) and Everything Shook, Any Odds (March 30). National Concert Hall, Thursday April 13, €15 Exhibition From Georgia with Love Elena Tsomaia is a Stockholm-based, Georgian curator of From Georgia With Love, an exhibition of the work of Tbilisi-based artist Keti Davlianidze. Elena got in touch back on January 2 asking for our support in assisting her ambition to host these love themed works. There’s something wonderful about the lengths Tsomaia is going to in order to promote “Georgian art and the country at large.” And as the Rose Revolution, which ushered in a nonviolent change of power there 20 years ago, shows signs of wilting midst a weakened civil society and democracy recently culminating in a contentious Russian-inspired foreign agent law, this is a timely reminder of the bigger picture we all need to see. Irish Georgian Society, April 20-22. @ketidavlianidze Theatre Frigid Writer-performer Rosa Bowden inhabits a variety of characters in this production which scooped the Little Gem award at the Fringe last year. Niamh O’Reilly is 14 and still a fridget. However, things are about to change at the school disco. Set in 2007 – when feminism wasn’t hip and consent was just a form you got your parents to sign to get you out of PE – this is a coming of age comedy about frenemies, first times and figuring it out. Emerging from the Scene + Heard last year, it shows the wonderful evolution of work finding new audiences in the process. Bewley’s Cafe Theatre until March 25, €10-€15 62