Caledonian culture at heart of London

The Glasgow Boys exhibition is currently drawing in crowds at the Royal Academy, following a record breaking run at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow.

This is the first major exhibition in London for over 40 years to celebrate the achievement of the influential group of painters who created a stir at home and abroad in the final decades of the nineteenth century.

Meanwhile, on the south bank of the Thames, the London National Theatre is performing Ena Lamont Stewart’s Glasgow-set play Men Should Weep. Written in 1947, the play which has an all-Scottish cast has received glowing reviews. Time Out magazine has described it as ‘a magisterial production’. The Daily Telegraph hailed it as ‘one of the dramatic highlights of the year’.

Scotland will make its vibrant cultural presence felt further in the city when the award-winning Black Watch play takes to the stage at the Barbican Theatre.

The National Theatre of Scotland’s powerful production about the frontline experiences of soldiers returns following its success at last year’s Olivier awards.

The Glasgow Boys exhibition at the Royal Academy runs until January 23, 2011.

Men Should Weep will be showing at the National Theatre until January 9, 2011.

Black Watch will run at the Barbican between from November 27 until January 22, 2011.

• National Theatre London
  
• Royal Academy London
  
• Barbican theatre
  
• National Theatre of Scotland