Name: Isabella Rossellini, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Start: 2014-02-09
Location: Southbank Centre

Unless you are an entomologist, you've probably never really considered the sex lives of insects. Until now. On 9 February at the Southbank Centre, Actress Isabella Rossellini and screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière perform a weird and wonderful show about the bizarrest of reproductive rituals, entitled Green Porno: Un Bestiaire d'Amour .

Rossellini is best-known for her role as the seductive chanteuse in David Lynch's Blue Velvet, but here she takes to the stage with Carrière to explore the weird and often savage sexual appetites of creepy crawlies. Expect wild orgies, strange seductions, fierce fights, impressive acrobatics, pregnant males and even offspring eaten alive!

This gripping show is sure to shock as the extraordinary diversity and unpredictability of nature is revealed...

Tickets: £25 - £30 (limited half-price concessions)

Address & Map: Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX

Nearest Tube: Waterloo‎

What	Isabella Rossellini, Queen Elizabeth Hall
Where	Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX \| MAP
Nearest tube	Acton Town (underground)
When	On 09 Feb 14, 7.30pm
Price	£30.00
Website	Click here to book via the Southbank Centre

Practical

DINNER ON THE SOUTHBANK

There's plenty of dinner options on the riverbank, expect the usual generic suspects: Giraffe, Le Pain, Wahaca, Ping Pong, Wagamama, yawn. The BFI has two good bars and a restaurant ; they're always a-buzz, so be prepared to elbow-jab your way to a table. If you can face the 10 minute walk, the Anchor and Hope gastropub on The Cut is exceptional (you may have to wait at the bar with a bottle of wine. We assure you it's worth it).

Crossing the river

GORDONS

Another option is to cross Hungerford Bridge walkway, by the Royal Festival Hall (look out for the beautiful girl who plays the electric-mandolin, and also the skateboard graveyard on the right about halfway along). Go through Embankment station, walk up Villiers Street and Gordon's -everyone's favourite wine-cave- is on your right, slightly hidden. Beware city boys on weekdays, but you can always buy a candlelit reading fromJoseph Marinus: ten minutes with resident Villiers St poet is a good antidote to all that money talk.

The Venue

QUEEN ELIZABETH HALL

With 900 seats, the coyly brutalist Queen Elizabeth Hall is the second largest space within the Southbank Centre. One of London's top performance spaces, it opened in 1967 to complement the existing Royal Festival Hall, along with the smaller Purcell Room. It means much to many: while the hall itseld houses the higher-profile events in the Southbank calendar, its undercroft is the much-loved home of a skating community, who claimed a graffiti-drenched recess in the 70s (and are still there today, despite the best efforts of retail site developers).