THEATRE LISTINGS
THEATRE
Theatre is listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Touring shows are listed alphabetically by title at the end of the section. Shows will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least ten days beiore publication. Theatre listings compiled by Ellie Carr.
DISABLED ACCESS KEY
Access: P = Parking Facilities. PPA = Parking to be Pre-Arranged. L = Level Access. R = Ramped Access. ST = Steps to negotiate.
Facilities: WC = Adapted Toilet(s). WS = Wheelchair Spaces. AS = Adjacent Seats. H = induction Loop System. G = Guide Dogs Allowed. R = Restaurant Accessible. C = Catering Accessible. T = Adapted Telephone.
lielp: A = Assistance Available. AA = Advise Venue in Advance.
TICKET lIHK
Tickets for major venues in Glasgow are available from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. Mon—Sat 10.30am until 6.30pm in person or until 9pm by phone on 0141 227 551 1. Sunday opening is noon—5pm. Any Ticket Link box office can sell tickets for other venues.
I ARCHES THEATRE Midland Street. 221 9736. [Access: L. Facilities: WC. W3. C. G. Help: A. AA]
Talk Radio Thurs 8—Sat 10 Feb. 8pm. £6 (£3). Glasgow-based theatre company Big Like Texas — who specialise in small-scale American work — follow up the success of last year's Kennedy's Children with a new production of Eric Bogosian's cult monologue. about one fateful night in the life of late-night radio phone-in DJ Barty Champlain. See preview.
I CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street. 332 7521. [Access: PPA. L. ST. Facilities: WC. W8. H. G. C]
Resolutions Until Sat 27 Jan. For 25 days in January. Glasgow-based artists Dave Richmond (Pants Performance Association and Clanjamfrie) and Jules Dorey Richmond (Clanjamfrie) are engaged in various collaborative exploits based round the idea that models of creation reflect models of living. lfyou
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I Graham Greene’s comic tale oi a staid, retired bank manager touring the world with an eccentric old lady in the late 603 might seem an odd choice for a stage
production, but Giles Havergal’s adaptation oi Travels With My Aunt - which first saw
light at the Citizens' Theatre in 1989 and has since toured the world in various versions, hooverlng up awards as it went - is about to have its second revival at the Citz. with llavergal once again directing and starring. ‘llon’t miss’ was our advice in
1990. It you did then, don’t now.
get that then you're smarter than us, but it‘s all taking place in the studio and you can find out about special events during the residency by calling the box office nearer the time.
lncognita and Arlette George Sat 27 Jan. 6.30pm; 9pm. £3 (£l). See Dance.
I CITilEHS’ THEATRE Gorbals Street. 429 0022. [Access: L. R. Facilities: WC. W8. H. G. C. Help: AA]
Don’t Start Me! Until Sat 3 Feb (not Sun or Mon). 7.30pm. £6 (£2). Castlemilk People‘s Theatre present a play by Scottish stand-up duo and Fringe regulars Kieman and Leach. about big shot comic Tasty McDade. returning to his home turf after two decades.
Travels With My Aunt Until Sat 17 Feb (not Sun or Mon). 7.30pm. £6 (£2). Classic stuff from the Graham Greene school of English story-telling. as retired bank manager Henry Pulling breaks with the suburban mould and into a twilight world of hippies, war criminals and the CIA. A resounding success in 1990 for the Citz. the play is revived for the company by Giles Havergal and Stewart Laing.
Easy Tue 6—Sat 17 Feb (not Sun or Mon).
7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Touring.
I EASTWOOD THEATRE Eastwood Recreation Centre. Eastwood Park. Roukenglen Road. Giffnock. 638 8399. [Access: P. L. ST. R. Facilities: WC. W5. G. C]
The Children's ilour Until Sat 27 Jan. 7.30pm; Sat mat 3pm. £5. Giffnock Players take on Lillian Hellman‘s frank 30s drama based on the famous 1810
Scottish trial at which a young
'i schoolteacher was accused of lesbianism. ; I KING’S THEATRE Bath Street. Phone
i bookings. Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. see
Ticket Link details above. [Access: PPA. L. Facilities: WC. W5. H. G. C. Help: A. AA]
liobln Hood and the Babes In The Wood
Until Sat 3 Feb (not Mons). lpm; 2. l5pm; ? 4.45pm; 7pm. Ring box office for specific ‘ times on specific dates. £4—£l2.50.
Cannon and Ball rock on in this late-
running panto. with a helping hand from
. Jimmy Logan as Nurse Polly. Grant Stott i (from kids' Sat morning TV show Fully
Booked) as Little John and various other stars including the King's Theatre Orchestra. dancers and lots and lots of children.
I PAISLEY ARTS CENTRE New Street. Paisley. 887 10!0. [Access: PPA. L. R. Facilities: WC. W8. H. G. C. Help: A. AA]
Onions Make You Cry Mon 5—Sat 10 Feb. 8pm. £6 (£1). ln co-production with Cumbemauld Theatre. Paisley Arts Centre crosses the sectarian divide with a new production of Derry-based Big Telly Theatre Company's prejudice-busting comedy about two bag-ladies — one Protestant. one Catholic — who strike up a friendship against the odds. See preview. Voices And Visions Tues 6 Feb. 7.30pm. Henry Normal - performance poet. comic and co-originator of Coogtm '3 Run and The Mrs Mermn Show — pairs up with Glasgow-based singer/songwriter Andy Thornton for an easy night of off-the-wall words and sounds.
I PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street. 332 I846. [Access: ST. Facilities: WS. G. Help: AA]
Aladdin Until Sat 27 Jan. 10am; 2pm; 7.30pm (call box office for specific times on specific dates). Fri—Sat. £5.75—£9.25; family tickets £l8—£35. A top panto line- up that would be hard to beat, with The Krankies as Wishee Washee and Widow Krankie. Linda Nolan as Aladdin. Gladiator Eunice ‘people’s champion‘ Huthart as Genie of the Ring. Mike Hayward — High Roar/Ir Alun Morgan — as Abanazer and last but not least crazy slapstick acrobats The Acromaniacs as The Chinese Policemen.
I THE RAMSHORH THEATRE 98 lngram Street. 552 3489. [Access: ST. Facilities: WC. W8. G. Help: AA]
losing Venice Until Sat 3 Feb (not Sun 28) 7.30pm. Mon/Tue £4 (£1.50); Wed—Sat £6 (£3). John Clifford's madcap romp through military misadventure in 17th century Spain and Italy — first seen at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre in 1985 — is resurrected for Strathclyde Theatre Group by the dynamic Steve Bottoms (who also directed David Mamet's Speed-rhe-Plow for SYT).
I TROH THEATRE 63 Trongate. 552 4267. [Access: PPA. ST. R. L. Facilities: WC. W5. H. C. Help: AA]
lleaven Tue 30 Jan—Sun l 1 Feb (not Mon). 8pm. £7.50; £6.50 (£4); first night all tickets £3. The much-revered. (usually) all-male physical theatre company Man Act return to Glasgow with a Scottish premiere and their latest explosive alloy of movement and words. In contrast to their usual one-gender line-up. the cast involves two blokes and one woman in a high-tension inner-city tale of three people holed up in a hotel room. See feature.
Your at a glance theatre guide
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i“ Playhouse Phantom. . . Phantom . . . - Phantom . . . Phantom. . . Phantom . . .
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54 The List 26 Jan-8 Feb I996