HERON Theatre's new season offerings includes a hot ticket from the 2016 Edinburgh Festival.

Written and performed by Clair Whitefield and directed by Olivier Award winner, Guy Masterson, Chopping Chillies is an epic, mystical tale of love, loss and soul-food that brings the spirit of India to the heart of London.

The story tells of Ajna Jan, who comes from Kerala to take over his late uncle's cobbler's shop in Camden. But he's no ordinary cobbler, repairing battered shoes. The kindly, quiet Ajna is a spiritual gentleman who is able to combine the ancient art of reflexology to refresh and energise the tired souls of his customers with magical results.

Next door, Katy, just back from a gap year in India, has opened her Kerala café, and Ajna is quick to offer his expertise as a taster of her pakoras and samosas.

A spicy mix of prose and storytelling, physical theatre and character performance, the Theatre Tours International production plays the Beetham theatre on Friday, February 9 (7.30pm).

On the chamber music front, the Heron hosts the Carnelian Saxophone Quartet on Sunday, February 4 (2.30pm).

The dynamic ensemble performs a diverse repertoire ranging from classical music to folk and pop music.

Formed in September 2015 at the Royal Northern College of Music, the quartet - Grace Macdonald, Lily Wilson-Caines, Freya Chambers and Simeon Evans - has since performed an extensive and wide range of concerts and events.

They have collaborated with many other musicians, reached the finals of the Trevor Wye Prize for Woodwind Chamber Music and have recorded Glint by Melissa Douglas, which was especially written for the foursome.

Meanwhile, on Friday, February 2 (7.30pm), the Beetham theatre screens the much acclaimed film, Hidden Figures (PG), the incredible story of three brilliant African-American women working in NASA in the late 1950s and early 1960s, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest technical operations in history: sending astronaut John Glenn into orbit in 1962. On the Friendship 7 mission, John became the first American to orbit Earth.

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