Here’s HELEN MUSA’s latest Artsweek column packed with the where and when of the coming week’s arts and entertainment attractions and events. 

NZ comedian Penny Ashton’s Promise and Promiscuity is a romp through the Regency period with characters such as Jane Austen’s heroes and heroines and has performed more than 600 times to sell-out houses from Edinburgh to Adelaide. The Street Theatre, June 25-29.

Canberra Men’s Choir welcomes all men to its open night at The Harmonie German Club, June 30.

Galleries

• Pivot/al is now on show at the SLA Display Village in Whitlam featuring a selection of artworks and functional ware for a domestic context. Curated by Louis Grant for Belco Arts, the show is at 3 Klaus Moje Street, Whitlam until August 10.
• Legendary photographer Heide Smith is exhibiting work at The Basil Sellers Exhibition Centre, Moruya, June 28-July 26.

Stage

• Irish playwright Martin McDonagh’s famous drama, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, set in a small, rural cottage in Connemara County Galway where middle-aged Maureen and her ageing, manipulative mother, Mag, live their isolated existence. Directed by Cate Clelland, it runs at ACT Hub, Kingston, until July 5.
• Mockingbird Theatre Company is opening Steve Martin’s absurdist comedy, Meteor Shower, directed by Chris Baldock. Jess Beange, Maxine Eayrs, Anto Hermida and Sachin Nayak play two couples planning to watch a rare meteor shower. Belco Arts, June 26-July 5.

Concerts

• Canberra Youth Orchestra presents The Painted Orchestra, Orana Steiner School Overture Hall, June 27.
• Canberra Qwire is going operatic, reinterpreting Purcell’s 1689 opera, Dido & Aeneas. Joined by four soloists and a chamber ensemble led by the Ellery Quartet, the Qwire will return to the stage after intermission to offer a musical response to the opera with contemporary repertoire. Llewellyn Hall, June 28.
• Canberra pianist Jacob Wu plays Liszt’s Piano Sonata in B Minor and Scriabin, Bach-Busoni and Wagner, Wesley Music Centre, June 28
• Polish pianist Lucas Krupiński performs Chopin, Scriabin, and Brahms, Wesley Music Centre, June 28.
• Musica da Camera Canberra, directed by Robert Harris, will highlight the viola with several pieces by Telemann plus Skalkottas’s Five Greek Dances, Strauss’ Pizzicato Polka and Schubert’s Valse Nobles. Holy Covenant Anglican Church, Cook, June 28 and Gundaroo Soldiers Memorial Hall, June 29.
• Pianist Rio Xiang and violinist Cedar Newman will play Beethoven’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Op. 12, No. 1; Franck’s Sonata in A Major for Violin and Piano and other repertoire at Greenaway Studio, Chapman, June 29.
• Oriana Chorale’s Musica Domestica, directed by Dan Walker and curated by Sally Whitwell, is at Street 3, (Street Theatre) June 29.
• Geoff’s Jazz at Smiths Hannah James Standards Trio, Smith’s Alternative, Civic, July 2.
• Music for Canberra presents Bright Notes, Cold Nights, Orana Steiner School Overture Hall, June 28.