THEATRE LIST
THEATRE
0 Theatre is listed by city first, then by venue, running in alphabetical order, except lortouring shows which are listed by the name of the show. Please send details not later than 10 days before publication date.
GLASGOW
0 Theatre is listed by city first, then by venue, running in alphabetical order, except for touring shows which are listed by the name ol the show. Please send details not later than 10 days before publication date.
GLASGOW
0 CITIZENS Gorbals Street. 429 0022. Box ()ffice Mon—Sat 10am—8pm. Bar.
No theatre performances this issue. 0 CUMBERNAULO THEATRE Curnbernauld. ()236 732887. Box Office Mon—Fri 10am—6pm. Sat 10am—3pm. 6-8pm perf evgs.
B ar. Cafe.
No theatre performances this issue. 0 DRAMA CENTRE 126 Ingram Street. 041552 5827.
Cabaret Climax Fri 10—Sun 12 July. 7.30pm. See Cabaret.
O GLASGOW UNIVERSITY DRAMA STUDIO West Quadrangle. Glasgow University.
Killing Me Softly Thurs 9—Sat 11 July. 7.30pm. Clyde Unity Theatre Company present a new play by young Glaswegian writer John Binnie (author ofthe successful Mum. Dad. there's Something I We Got To Tell You). which tells the story ofa tender unconventional love affair between a gay boy and a straight girl.
0 KING'S Bath Street. Box Office Mon—Sat 12 noon—6pm. 4 bars. [D] [E] Phone Bookings. Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. Mon—Sat 10.30am—6.30pm. (141 552 5961.
No theatre performances this issue. 0 MITCHELL Granville Street. 221 3198. Box office Mon—Sat. 12 noon—6pm. Bar. Cafe. [D] Tickets also available from Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. 552 5961. Mon—Sat 10.30am—6.30pm.
A Grand Scots Night Mon 6—Wed 22 July. Every Mon and Wed. 8pm. £3 (£2). Bobby Harvey and guests present an evening oftraditional Scots music.
0 PAVILION 121 Renfield Street. 332 1846. Box office Mon—Sat 10am—8pm. Bar.
Robert Halpern Every Thurs. Fri and Sat eve. until end August. 7.30pm. Thurs £2.50; Fri £3.25; Sat £4. The stage hypnotist returns to exercise
Tickets from £2.00
) THE TRAVERSE THEATRE Thurs 9 July-Sun 26 July, 7.30 pm
NOA H ’5 WIFE
by Amy Hardie
Electrifying retelling of the Flood Story
Tel 031-226 2633
> THE TRAVERSE THEATRE “2 WEST sow GRASSMARKET EDlNBURGH
1.2 June-6 August Sheridan’s
THE SCHOOL
ROYAL
Grindlay Street,
FOR SCANDAL
Tickets from £2.70 Booking now—031229 9697 (no perfs Suns)
PERFORMED BY
26 June-8 August
Moliere’s
TARTUFFE
translated by Liz Loehhead
his powers over his audience.
0 THEATRE ROYAL Hope Street. 331 1234. Box office Mon—Sat lOam-opm (7.30pm on perf evgs). Bar. Buffet.
No theatre performances this issue. 0 THIRD EYE CENTRE 350 Sauchiehall Street. 332 7521.
Anne Seagrave -A Retrospective Fri 17 July. 8pm. £2.50 (£2). In which the extraordinary performance artist Anne Seagrave charts the development of her style over the past five years.
0 TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate. 552 4267/8. Box Office Tue—Sat Noon—8pm: Sun 12.30—8pm. Cafe/Rest. Bar Tue—Thurs
Noon—1 1pm; Fri and Sat Noon—midnight: Sun 12.30—1 1pm. Tony Gorman and Sandy Evans Jazz Quintet Fri 10July. 8pm. £4 non-members; £3 members. Students. OAPs. UB40s. Disabled. Under 21s £1 (members only). See Jazz.
Victor and Barry Sun 12 July. 8pm. Prices as for Tony Gorman and Sandy Evans (see above). See Cabaret.
EDINBURGH
O BRUNTON THEATRE Musselburgh. 665 2240. Box office Mon—Sat 10am—8pm. Bar. [D] [E]
No theatre performances this issue. 0 KING'S THEATRE 2 Leven Street. 229 1201. Box office Mon—Sat 10am—8pm. Bar. [D]
Festival '87 Until Sat 18 July. 7.30pm. £3.50. Cones available for Parties. UB40s. OAPs. Children. Students and Overseas Visitors — please contact box office for details. Evenings of traditional Scottish song and dance with Bill McCue and Mary Cameron and special effects by Water Sculptures of Lancaster.
A Chorus Line Tue 21 July—Sat 8 Aug. 7.30pm. Wed and Sat mats 2.30pm. £5. £7.50. £8. £9. £10. Opening night and all matinees. all seats £5: Mon—Thurs. Students. OAPs. UB40s. disabled. children £2 off Stalls and Grand Circle seats: cones also for parties. Broadway‘s longest-ever running musical recently adapted. rather disappointingly. onto celluliod by Sir Richard Attenborough. comes to Edinburgh in a production directed and choreographed by Michael Benneu.
0 MANDELA THEATRE Gateway Exchange. 2—4 Abbeymount. 661 0982. Cafe and Bar facilities during performances.
No theatre performances this issue. 0 NETHERBOW 43 High Street. 556 9579. Box office mam-4.30pm; 7—9pm perfevgs.
Cafe’. [D] [E]
This is My Country Until Sat 1 Aug. 7.30pm. 2.30pm also on Sats l 1. 18. 25 July and Sat 1 Aug. A dramatic anthology ofScotland written by W. Gordon Smith and presented by the inimitable Russell Hunter and Anna Price. See Review.
HeadslSltlnny Spew Wed 8—Fri 10 July. 1pm. £1. More lunchtime theatre from The Oxygen House. This week they present a play by Howard Brenton. radical playwright
and author of The Romans in Britain.
The Window Wed 15—Fri 17 July. 1pm. £1 . The Oxygen House present their third lunchtime theatre production at the Netherbow. a play by Frank Marcus about what happens when a blind man. desperate to know what is going on through the window. asks two young men for help.
The Shadow ol the Glen ch 22-Fri 24 July. 1pm. £1 . The Oxygen House‘s lunchtime theatre this week is a short play by seminal Irish playwright J.M Synge.
O PLAYHOUSE THEATRE
Jesus Christ Superstar Mon l3—Sat 18 July. Mon-Thurs 7.30pm: Thurs mat 2.30pm; Fri and Sat 8pm; Sat mat 5pm. £5. £6. £7; Mon two tickets for price of one; OAPs and children £2 off all seat prices. Party cones also available. The original Rice—Lloyd Webbcr gospel ‘rock opera’ and the true sound of the Seventies. this musical tells the story ofChrist from the point of view ofJudas and with the help ofnumbers like ‘I Don‘t Know How to Love Him' and ‘Jesus Christ. Superstar'. This production from Bill Kenwright Productions visits Edinburgh as part ofa national tour.
0 ROYAL LYCEUM Grindlay Street. 2299697. Box office Mon—Sat 10am—6pm. 10am—8pm on perf evgs. Bar. Rest’Cafe. ('I‘heatreSaver Concession Cards cost £1 . last all year. give £1 offthe full price each time you come for you and a friend — available to OAPs. UB40s. Students. disabled. under 24 railcard holders. YTS scheme and young people under 18).
The School for Scandal Until Thurs 6 Aug. 7.45pm. Sat mats on 11 and 26 July (all seats £2.70). £2.70—£6. TheatreSaver holders £1 offSummer Super Saver offer — reductions for those booking both shows (School
for Scandal and Tarmffe). Richard
Brinsley Sheridan's much-loved comedy of manners. A respectable but unremarkable production that begins very slowly but gathers speed and interest as the play progresses and features nice performances from Garry Stewart and Billy McElhaney. as the two brothers to whom there is more than meets the eye. and David McKail as the uncle who reveals their true colours.
Tartulle L'ntil Sat 8 Aug. 7.45pm. For ticket prices see .S'ehooljor Scandal. Revival of Liz Lochhead‘s wonderfully funny Scots adaptation of Moliere‘s classic comedy about hypocrisy. See Review.
0 THEATRE WORKSHOP 34 Hamilton Place. 226 5425. Box office Mon—Sat 9.30am—5.30pm. Bar. Cafe. No theatre performances this issue. 0 TRAVERSE THEATRE 112 West Bow. 226 2633. Box office Tue—Sat 10am—8pm; Sun 6—10pm. Bar. Rest. Tickets also available from the Ticket Centre. 22 Market Street. Seats from £2. Sundays ALL SEATS £2 (non-members £2.50).
Noah's Wile Thurs 9 June—Sun 26 July. 7.30pm. Prices as for Playing With Fire. The premiere ofa new play by Amy Hardie who wrote the award—winning Preearious Living. a
16 The List 10 — 23 July