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Word jamming

Are you ready for a mouthful... Of plum?

To clarify this proposition, Plum is an evening of live fiction and DJs brought to you by writers Luke Williams and Natasha Soobramanien, at the Old Queens Head in Islington.

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St Petersburg's much lauded Maly Drama Theatre brings Chekhov's Uncle Vanya to Barbican. 7pm. Silk St, EC2. £7+. 020 7638 8891 or here

Nancy Cartwright shares her tales of life as Bart Simpson tonight at Riverside Studios. 7:45pm. Crisp Rd, W6. £25. 020 8237 1111 or online.

R'n'B man Jamie Lidell joins rockers Tortoise at the RFH. 7:30pm. Belvedere Rd, SE1. £20. 0870 401 8181 or here.

The quarterly event has been running since 2002 with selected wordsmiths reading their own material to a literary inclined audience.

This time there is a decidedly international flavour with poems from Helon Habila, the Caine Prize winner and author of 'Waiting for an Angel', winner of commonwealth prize for best first novel, in the African region.

And from the other side of the atlas will be Brooke Biaz reading from his novel in stories, 'Small Maps of the World', which bagged him a National Book Council award for new fiction in Oz.

Showy, eccentric [The Real] Tuesday Weld plays at Spitz. 7pm. 109 Commercial St E1. £8. 020 7392 9032 or online.

Synergy + Oboto play at the F-ire collective's Festival at the Vortex. 8:30pm. Gillett Sq, N16. £6. 020 7690 6661.

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Your senses will be further stimulated by Le Couteau Jaune's performance of soundscape and spoken words; your guess is as good as mine for what this will entail...

May all sound a bit 'heavy' for a night out, but when was the last time you went along to, or participated in a reading? That's what I thought.

Plum Live - 7pm-12am Thursday May 26 2005
At the Old Queen’s Head, 44 Essex Road, N1
£3 - email before if you would like to read at Plum

the future - a musical to believe in - DIESEL

Lots of flesh and cool moves at the Peacock from Jasmin Vardimon's dancers. 7:30pm Portugal Street, WC2. £10- 25. 0870 7333 900 or here.

New play Live From Paradise by the Station House Opera now at Toynbee Studios. 28 Commercial St, E1. 7:30pm. £15. 07952 769633 or here.
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