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CHATTERS WITH BRADDERS
Cycling in Birmingham can be an almost daily life-or-death experience, and we say this with none of our usual hyperbole. It's grim out there, kids. Keep safe. But Bradley Wiggins took cheating death on two wheels to the next level in a career that saw him become our most decorated Olympian, smashing wrists and collar bones as he went. The five-time gold medallist is the only cyclist who has won World and Olympic championships on both the track and the road along with winning the Tour De France. And that, in our eyes, makes him superhuman. Wiggo will be taking questions at Bradley Wiggins: An Evening With, at the Symphony Hall on Sept 20. We'll be the ones on the front row asking if he's ever been to Snobs. Tickets (£35.50)
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DANCING TO DEATH
From an idyllic harvest scene, all the way to a forest haunted by the spirits of jilted brides and wronged virgins, Giselle covers off heartbreak, death, betrayal *and* all the prettier sort of classical ballet feels you want from a night with Birmingham's most royal of ballets. The second act is notoriously difficult to perform, with a high octane troupe of ghostly maidens seeking out revenge on any male that ends up in their forest, forcing them to dance until they drop down dead (ever so balletically), from exhaustion. The vertebrate tingling Royal Ballet Sinfonia orchestra is on — capital T — Tunes, performing the happy, hopeful, terrifying, moody score. At the Hippodrome from September 25 to 28, tickets are from £15 rising to £46.
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