pick of the day

THE TALK

Robert Wilson

The legendary American theatrician (Phil Glass's collaborator on Einstein on the Beach) delivers one of his "celebrated lecture demonstrations" in advance of next week's opening of his new Artangel- commissioned installation (and first ever original UK artwork), HG, in the Clink Street Vaults.

6.30pm Royal Geographical Society, London SW7 (booking: 0171-336 6801)

THE PLAY

Gangster No 1

Peter (To the Manor Born) Bowles stars in the first performance of this "contemporary Jacobean" underworld drama by Louis Mellis and David Scinto (New York- trained dancer and current guitarist with Winnie at Cannes).

8pm (exc tonight 7pm) Almeida Theatre, London N1 (0171-359 4404)

THE OPERA

Il trittico

Simon Callow makes his English opera- directing debut with Puccini's rarely seen tragi-sentimento- comic triptych.

6.30pm Broomhill, nr Tunbridge Wells, Kent (01892 517720)