MAYFEST LISTINGS
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Prudential Award-winner gives a contemporary twist
to classical Indian dance. See Sill 8.
THURSDAY 12
Theatre
I Innocent Erendira Mitchell Theatre. 7.30pm. £7 (£4). See Mon 9.
I Chicago on Chicago: Rough Trade 11 CCA. 7.30pm. £6 (£2.50). See Tue 10.
I Mool Street Moves Arches Theatre. 7pm. £6.50 (£3.50). See Tue 10. I The Grapes of Wrath Citizens’ Theatre. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Tue 10.
I Trainspotting Citizens’ Stalls Studio. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Fri 6.
I A Little Older Arches Theatre. 9pm. £6 (£3). See Tue 10.
I Dumbstruclt Tron Theatre. 7.30pm. £7.50 (£3), £6 (£2). See Fri 6. I ILRJI. Citizens’ Circle Studio. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Fri 6.
I Wee MacGreegor Old Athenaeum. 7pm. £5 (£2.50). See Tue 10.
Dance
I Desperate Journey Chandler Studio.
RSAM D. 7.30pm. £6 (£3) Family Ticket (two adults. two children) £15. The Highland Clearances are the subject of TAG’s latest dance and music-based production. See preview.
Classical
I lturt Dahllte Fruitmarket. 3pm. 5pm. 7pm, 9pm. £2 (£1). Dahlke is an experimental composer and ‘sound artist‘ who likes to combine different art- forms in integrated installations. This show, entitled Enchanted Rooms, will consist of seven different computer- generated sound environments.
Music
I Angelique Kldlo The Beck‘s Tent. 8pm. £8 (£6) Hot Afro-funk grooves from this already popular sin er in these parts.
I awbox wlth AC Acoustics and Understand King Tut's Wah Wah Hut. 8.30pm.
£5. Another Mayfest indie night at King Tut’s. featuring noisy American post-punkers Jawbox and. arguably the main attraction. local heroes AC Acoustics. who have just released their Able Treasury album on Ultimate Records.
I The Fun Hunts With Billy Jenkins The Ferry. 7pm. £7 (£5). Guitar maniac Jenkins creates mayhem for Mayfest with this east German horn quartet. Likely to be outrageous and inventive in equal proportions.
I The Well Oiled Sisters The Ferry. 10pm. £7 (£5). All-women Scottish band whose music falls somewhere between country and high-octane folk-rock.
Film
I Genninal GFT. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Film listings.
FRIDAY 13
Theatre
I Innocent Erendira Mitchell Theatre. 7.30pm. £7 (£4). See Mon 9.
I Chicago 0h Chicago: Can’t Take Johnny to the Funeral CCA. 7.30pm. £6 (£2.50). Final Goat island show is a tough look at the way we destroy our children by making them the inheritors of real and imagined violence. See preview.
I Mooi Street Moves Arches Theatre. 7pm. £6.50 (£3.50). See Tue 10. I The Grapes of Wrath Citizens' Theatre. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Tue 10.
I Trainspotting Citizens‘ Stalls Studio. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Fri 6.
I A little Older Arches Theatre. 9pm. £6 (£3). See Tue 10.
I Dumbstruclt Tron Theatre. 7.30pm. £7.50 (£3). £6 (£2). stand-by for conc £4. See Fri 6.
I "JUL Citizens‘ Circle Studio. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Fri 6.
I Mayfest Community Showcase: Back to Basics Drama Centre at The Ramshom. 7.30pm.
£4 (£2). Bread and
Circuses takes a satirical
look at modern romance in a specially commissioned sketch show.
I Wee MacGreegor Old Athenaeum. 7pm. £5 (£2.50). See Tue 10.
Dance
I Desperate Journey Chandler Studio. RSAMD. 7.30pm. £6 (£3) Family Ticket (two adults and two children) £15. See Thurs 12.
Classical
I Kurt Dahlke Fruitmarket. 3pm. 5pm. 7pm. 9pm. £2 (£1). See Thurs 12.
Music
I Don McCaIister Jnr and his Cowboy Jan Revue The Ferry. 7pm. £7 (£5). Cowboy jazz translates as the western swing style popularised by the legendary Bob Wills and his imitators. a tradition maintained by this Texas- based outfit.
I Maytest Ceilidh The Ferry. 10pm. £6 (£4). The Gary Blair Ceilidh Band do the honours this week.
Cabaret/ Comedy
I Jo Brand and Guests
1 The Beck‘s Tent. 8pm.
£12 (£11). Currently ubiquitous high priestess of cream cakes. recently awarded TV status.
I Parrot Tron Theatre. 10.45pm. £6 (£5). After providing serious competition in last year's Perrier Awards, Parrot is determined that 1994 is going to be his year. so now is as good a time as any to catch his fast- talking foul-mouthed wit.
film
I Genninal GFT. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Film listings.
I Sonatine GFT. 8.45pm. £4 (£3). See Film listings.
SATURDAY 14
Theatre I Chicago 0h Chicago:
The Subversive Imagination CCA. lO.30am—4.30pm. Free. All-day symposium organised in conjunction with US cultural critic Carol Becker. looking at the place of the artist in society. See preview.
I Mooi Street Moves Arches Theatre. 7pm. £6.50 (£3.50). See Tue 10. I The Devils (Parts I, II and III) Tramway. Noon. £15 (£9). The last time Tramway audiences witnessed a theatre project on this scale was with Peter Brook‘s The Mahabharata. This final production in the Maly Theatre retrospective is a nine-hour adaptation of Dostoyevsky‘s The Possessed. Director Lev Dodin will be discussing the piece during the day and members of the Balalaika Folk Ensemble from Rostov on Don will perform prior to the show and in the interval on Sunday.
I The Grapes of Wrath Citizens' Theatre. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Tue 10.
I Trainspotting Citizens' Stalls Studio. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Fri 6.
I A Little Older Arches Theatre. 9pm. £6 (£3). See Tue 10.
I Dumbstruck Tron Theatre. 7.30pm. £7.50 (£3). £6 (£2). stand-by for conc £4. See Fri 6.
I HRH. Citizens' Circle Studio. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Fri 6.
I Mayfest Community Showcase: Back to Basics Drama Centre at The Ramshom. 7.30pm. £4 (£2). See Fri 13.
I Wee MacGreegor Old Athenaeum. 2pm and 7pm. £5 (£2.50). See Tue 10.
Dance
I Desperate Journey Chandler Studio. RSAMD. 2.30pm and 7.30pm. £6 (£3) Family Ticket (two adults. two children) £ 15. See Thurs 12.
I Akwaaba Mitchell Theatre. 7.30pm. £6.50 (£3.50). Celebrating its tenth birthday. Adzido Pan African Dance Ensemble brings a new energetic celebration of African dance and drumming.
Classical
I Barry Douglas Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 8pm. £7 (£4). The widely- acclaimed pianist plays Scriabin‘s White Mass. Rachmaninov’s 6 Moments MIM‘lt‘UlLt 0p 6 and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. I Cappella lIova With Tom Fleming St Aloysius Church. 8pm. £7 (£4). The well-established Scottish choir commemorates the 400th anniversary of Renaissance composer Palestrina by
reconstructing music from The Coronation of Pope Clement VII] in [592 with commentary from broadcaster Tom Fleming. I Kurt Dahllte Fruitmarket. 3pm. 5pm. 7pm. 9pm. £2 (£1). See Thurs 12.
Music
I Vince Bill The Beck‘s Tent. 8pm. £10 (£8). Arguably the genuine big- name in the country music season. Nashville cat Gill has picked up lots of music prizes back home. but is playing for the first
time on this side of the
Atlantic.
I Jim Diamond The Ferry. 10pm. £7 (£5). Replaces Juliet Roberts in the Mayfest programme. Scottish soul-pop singer known for PhD and his
own solo hits.
’ I Thierry Miroglio and
Isabelle Hureau The Ferry. 7pm. £7 (£5). Odd Mayfest programme entry for this one — this flute and percussion duo are fine musicians. but hardly ‘the future of contemporary music'. To
' top that piece of hyperbole. they are billed as playing music by the
greatest names in that aforesaid contemporary music — Ager. Ambrosini. Campana. Who they? Find out at The Ferry.
I The Ritual Trio King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut.
i 8.30pm. £7 (£4). Tucked
away within the CCA's Mayfest-related Chicago Oh Chicago series is this fascinating gig by three of the leading experimental jazzmen in the city. Percussionist Kahil El’labar leads the band.
with Art Ensemble of
Chicago bass player Malachi Favors
Maghostut and tenor
saxophonist Ari Brown. A must for anyone interested in exploratory contemporary jazz.
' Cabaret!
. Comedy
l I Parrot Tron Theatre.
10.45pm. £6 (£5). See Fri 13.
F Hm
I Genninal GET. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Film listings.
I Sonatlne GFT. 8.45pm. £4 (£3). See Film listings. I Talieshi Itltano: An Eastern Eastwood? GFT. 10.30am—6pm. £6 (£5). See Film listings.
SUNDAY 15 .
Theatre
I Chicago 0h Chicago CCA. Call CCA 041 332 7521 for details.
I Mooi Street Moves Arches Theatre. 7pm. £6.50 (£3.50). See Tue 10. I The Devils (Parts I, II and III) Tramway. Noon. £15 (£9).
I A little Older Arches Theatre. 9pm. £6 (£3). See Tue 10.
I Dumbstruclt Tron Theatre. 7.30pm. £7.50 (£3). £6 (£2). See Fri 6.
Classical
I City Of Glasgow Philharmonic Orchestra The Beck‘s Tent. 8pm. £15 (£12). A variant on this orchestra's usual ‘classical pops’ programme. in that the pops chosen are on a minimalist theme. Mike
Oldfield’s Tubular Bells
sits uneasily alongside Gorecki's Symphony No 3, and neither may be entirely up this band's street.
I The Chamber Group or Scotland With Tommy Smith and Frances
McCarterty Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 8pm. £7 (£4). This one has been incorporated into the festival from the Chamber Group’s The Elements season. Water is the thematic strand this time. and the varied programme
features Smith as soloist in a new work by William Sweeney
I Kurt Dahllte Fruitmarket. 3pm, 5pm,
7pm. 9pm. £2 (£1). See Thurs 12.
Music
I Jimmy latave The
Ferry. 7pm. £7 (£5). Singer-songwriter from
i the Austin package which
Mayfest seems to have bought in wholesale. but
3 with strong musical
connections to the mid-
west tradition of Woody
Guthrie, et al.
I Strong Winds and Soft Earth landlngs The Feny. 10pm. £7 (£5). A Zimbabwe/UK co- production on an African theme, mixing live music with story-telling. sculpture and film.
Cabaret!
1 Comedy
I Parrot Tron Theatre. 10.45pm. £6 (£5). See Fri 13.
Film
I Genninal OFT. 8pm. £4 (£3). See Film listings.
I Sonatlne GFT. 8.45pm. £4 (£3). See Film listings.
MONDAY 16
Theatre
I Ilere Comes Everybody Tramway. 10.30pm. £7 (£4). Process [TEN 28] takes inspiration from the second chapter of James Joyce's Finnegan 's Wake for this multi-media. site- specific performance which takes place on a field of wheat. Tam Dean Burn and Pene Hennan- Smith star in Ken Davidson‘s production.
I eonlour Trlstesse Tramway. 8pm. £5 (£3). Multi-media adaptation of Francoise Sagan‘s novel performed by Glasgow's Theatre Cryptic. See preview.
20 The List 6—19 May 1994