MAYFEST SPECIAL
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £3 members.£4 non-members. See Tue 19.
o Whalers Third Eye Centre. Box Office: 0-11 332 7521. Thurs 21—Sat 23 May. 7.30pm. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. A moving and fascinating one-man play by Michael Elder about the history of whalingin Dundee. Elder manages to communicate the sadness of the dying industry and the cruelty of the industry itself.
0 Getting Past It Third Eye Centre. Box Office: 0-11 332 7521. Thurs 21—Sat 23 May. 10. 15pm. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. Life begins at‘.’ . . . Comedy.written by Lynn Bains. about growing-older pains and involving the talentsof Elaine C. Smith and Forbes Masson (better known as one halfof Victor and Barry).
0 Macbeth Drama Centre. 7.30pm. See Tue 19.
0 It’s Called the SugarPlum DramaCentre. 10.30pm. See Tue 19.
o Ritchie and the Rockets Queens Park Baptist Church. 7.30pm. £2 (inc refreshments). 50s' Night. Impact '87 Promotion.
JAZZ
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £3 members. £4 non-members. See Tue 19.
0 Gavin Meekie and The McLuskey Brothers Tron Theatre. Box Office: 041 552 4267/8. 11pm. Tickets: £4 members. £4 non-members.
o Latefest Moir Hall. Tickets; 041 552 5961. £3.50. Non-stop late-night cabaret from 10pm. Excellent country and western comedian Hank Wangford.
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£4. Mayfest has certainly kept the McCluskey Brothers busy! And they're not finished yet . ..
DANCE
0 Scottish Dance Theatre: Triple Bill Rankine Hall. 8pm. Tickets: £4. £1 .50. See Tue 19.
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singer Leon Rosselson has got no time for most of the old songs trotted out in folk clubs. They are irrelevant, therefore worthless. Here to give concerts with the five-person Political Song Network (Glasgow Arts Centre 15, 16, 17 May) he, with the others, will take part in two afternoons of workshops (16,17 May) on political songwriting. A forum on the 16th will endeavourto set up a Scottish branch. What if someone wanders in wanting help with a song to celebrate another four years of Maggie!
(Norman Chalmers)
o The Pied Piper Barrowfield Primary. 2pm. Free. See Thurs 7.
WORKSHOPS
o The Music Theatre Workshop Maryhill Arts Centre. 10.30am—5pm. See Mon 18.
COMMUNITY
o Pandemonium Puppets Barlanark Community Centre 10.30am; Kinning Park Neighbourhood Centre 2pm: Eastfield Community Centre
6.30pm. See Tue5.
o Laughterfrom the Other Side Ruchill Unemployed Workers‘ Centre. 7.30pm. See Tue 19.
o The Steamie Barrowfield
Community Centre.
7.30pm. See Tue5. . OOnceaCatholicKinning
Park Neighbourhood
FRIDAY 22
THEATRE
o Bufaplanetes Mitchell
Theatre. Box Office: 041
552 5961 (Credit Cards: 227 5015). Fri 22 and Sat
23 May. 2pm and 7.30pm. Tickets:£4.50.£l.50.
First showing in Britain for Pip Bill the extraordinary and spellbinding clown from Barcelona. of whom saying he blows bubbles is like saying of Fred Astaire he ‘dances a bit'.
0 The Hypochondriak King's Theatre. 7.30pm. Tickets: £5. £4. £3.
See Mon 18.
o The Gorbals Story Citizens' Theatre. 7.30pm. £3 (£1 ).
See Wed 6.
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £3 members.£4 non-members. See Tue 19.
0 Whalers Third Eye Centre. 7.30pm. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. See Thurs 21.
0 Getting Past It Third Eye Centre. 10.15pm. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. See Thurs 21.
O Macbeth Drama Centre. 7.30pm. See Tue 19.
0 It's Called the Sugar Plum Drama Centre. 10.30pm. SeeTue 19.
CABARET/FOLK/ JAZZ
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £3 members.£4 non-members. See Tue 19.
o HankWangford Mitchell Theatre (Main theatre not Moirllall). 10.30pm.£3 (£1 .50). Excellent country and western comedian.
0 The Sirens Tron Theatre. 11pm. Tickets: £3 members. £3 non-members. See Sun 17.
MY SISTE
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R IN THIS HOUSE: SEE TUES 19. Monstrous Regiment took their name
from John Knox’s sixteenth century pamphlet entitled ‘The First Blast of the
Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women'. Gillian Hanna, one of the
three founding members oi the company, explains that they formed themselves in 1975 ‘out of anger and need’: ‘We were a bunch of women fed up with the conditions of work and the plays themselves; even now the line-up at the end of a play often has eight men out of a cast of ten.’ As a result, the policy oi Monstrous Regiment is to commission new plays with strong parts forwomen, to have more women in the company than men and to promote female technicians. The threesome made themselves unemployed to set up the company and Hanna shouldered the financial risk of their first production at The Crucible in Sheffield. From there they received a generous Arts Council grant. ‘Women were "flavour of the month” then,‘ says the administrator ‘Just as now it is black
people.’
This year they received £66,000 for their two touring shows, the first of which, the much-acclaimed ‘My Sister in this House’ comes to Mayfest this month. Directed by Nancy Meckler and and written by American Wendy Kesselman, the play recounts the infamous case in Le Mans in 1933 of Mme Danzard and her daughter, found brutally murdered on the staircase to the servants' quarters. This story inspired Jean Genet’s play ‘The Maids’, but Hanna feels ‘it is a lot more conversant in Kesselman’s production. It is a study of claustrophobia and what happens to people— particularly women—when they are forced to live inside the four walls of a house.’ (Ness Raison).
o Latefest Moir Ilall. Tickets: 0-11 552 5961. £3.50. Non-stop late-night cabaret from 10pm. London‘s Simon Fanshawe plus Mary Coughlin. controversial jazz, blues singerfrom Ireland.
0 Ceilidh Nights Winter Gardens. People’s Palace. 9.30pm-2am. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. Front Third Eye Centre; Ticket Centre. Candleriggs and on the door. See Fri 8.
DANCE
0 Scottish Dance Theatre: Triple Bill Rankine Hall. 8pm. Tickets: £4.£1.50.
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- Butaplanetes Mitchell Theatre. Box Office: 0-11 5525961(Credit(‘ards: 2275015). Fri 22 and Sat 23 May. 2pm and 7.30pm. Tickets: £4.50. £1.50. Pep Bou. a Spanish magician. clown and mime artist docs amazing things with bubbles! Big and Colourful. the soap bubbles are blown. juggled and bounced? A fun and unusual show for the whole family.
WORKSHOPS
o The Music Theatre Workshop Maryhill Arts
Centre. 10.30am—5pm.
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COMMUNITY
o Shanghaied London Road School. 7pm. See Mon 4.
o Educating Rita Camus Place Project. 7.30pm. See Tue 5.
o Tollcross Tanzi Easterhouse Community Centre. 2pm and 8pm. See Tue 5.
o The Music Theatre Workshop: Rock Musical Maryhill Arts Centre. 7.30pm. See Mon 18.
o Pandemonium Puppets Garthamlock Community Centre 10.30am. See Tue 5.
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