Riverside Studios is an excellent spot for a bit of summertime fun, with a beer garden that commands magnificent views overlooking the Thames. This summer they're running a lot of family-friendly events which provide the perfect excuse to hand your kids over to a professional entertainer while you take your seat outside and enjoy a cold beer.
Albert and Friends Instant Circus are Riverside favourites and return to the space this year with Summer Circus: a full day of traditional circus activities and family fun. Basically it gives the kids a chance to admire and learn from professional clowns, jugglers and acrobats, and to pick up some skills which they can practise ad nauseam for the rest of August. And it gives you a chance to relax.
Two boys living through the Easter Uprising of 1916 find that they can only be together when they go swimming, away from the conflict and the close eye of their community. The production is staged in a...