Theatre listings
Locals by Stephen Carella
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Tickets 28/5 from Collins Gallery tel: 0141 548 2558
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Private Joke Productions
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A new comedy from a new comedy company about two llatmates. one from Glasgow and one from Motherwelt ,.One lives for Celtic. and One would die for Motherwell‘ this adds an edge to the question of where is the best place to belong. ..Combining sketch show and Sit-com. what results is a comic SWlpe at family, religion. politics. sex and football
Off the Cuff Theatre Company Swollen Tongues
Thomas and his sister Catherine. aspiring poets. are both in love Wllh Sonia This modern RestOration comedy embrOils Shakespearean gender-bending Molieresque rapier thrusts of comic verse. and a Cyrano style faith in poetic panache in the powers of woomg by proxy. In a flurry of disguises. tricks and revelations. and 3
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'lt's wonderful to see women performers relishing the kind of sexed-up comedy that
Edinburgh Drama continued
NETHERBOW ARTS CENTRE 43—45 High Street. 556 957‘). [W(‘. WAI Turning Tides L‘niil Sat 27 Apr. 8pm. £6 (£4). A new play by Blue Shoes in which a man and woman find themselves entwined in the past. but looking to the future.
Love Song Of The Electric Bear Sun 28—Tue 30 Apr. 7.30pm; Sun 5pm & 8pm. £5 (£4). Iidinburgh-based Blueprint Productions presents this .story of Alan Turing. creator of the modern computer. See preview in (iay section. Jessie Kesson - A Good Crack At Life Wed l—Sat 4 May. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Attic Theatre’s humorous and poignant look at the life of Scottish author Jessie Kesson.
The Emerald City Thu 9 Sat 1 I May. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £6 (£4). Napier Drama Society adapts l’i'ank Baum's T/lt’ ll'imn/ tilt): and The Marvellous Lam] oft);
PLAYHOUSE
Iii-~22 (irecnside Place. ()870 6063424. IH. W('. WA]
The King And I t‘niil Sat 18 May (not Sun). 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £7V-‘£3(). Lavish production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. with none other than ex-Hur! Io Hurt star Stefanie Powers taking on the role of governess Anna Leonowens. See review.
ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Grindlay Street. 248 4848. ll’. ll. 'l"'I'. WC‘. WA]
OVictory Sill 27 Apr- Sill l8 May (not Sun/Mon). 7.45pm (Sat ck Wed niat 2.30pm). £7~—£l7.5() (£l --£l3). Howard Barker‘s provocative and witty play set in 17th century post-revolution lingland. See preview.
51' NINIAN’S CHURCH
Comely Batik. Tickets: 553 l54‘). Canterbury Tales (Chaucer Made Modern) .\Ion 2‘) Apr —Sat 4
May. 7.30pm (Sat iiiat 3.30pm). £7 (£5). lidinbui‘gh ‘l'lieatre Arts presents Phil Woods' non-academic reworking of (‘iilltlL‘L‘l"\ classic [C\i\.
ST BRIDE’S CENTRE
ll) ()i'w ell ’l‘ci'i'acc. 34b l4()5. |W('. WAI Medea l'ntil Sat 27 Apr. 7.45pm. £(i.5(). Ai'kle 'I‘heati'e (‘onipany stage l.i/ l.ochl‘iead's modern rc-telling of the classical lauripides myth.
STOCKBRIDGE HOUSE
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Rags 'l'hu ‘) Sat ll .\la_\. Spin. £7.50 (£6.50). t'oncei't \ei‘sion of the Strotise and Scliwai't/ musical (the guy s behind Annie and (;(’(/\/’('/li. which follow s a group of Rtissian .lew s as they attempt to
Perfect Days, touring
build a new life in New York. Performed by Strictly Songtime. the music runs the gamut ol’jan. blues and ragtime to traditional Yiddish tunes.
TRAVERSE THEATRE
('ainbi‘idge Street. 338 I404. ll’. H. Ti. W('. WAI
Green Field l‘ri 2(i Apr Sal IS May (not .\lonl. Spin. £9 (£4.5(ll. l’reyiew sliows l'ii Io Still IS Apr. tickets £5 (£3). Riccardo (ialgani's sharply obsery ed comedy about a couple who move to a luxurious new housing estate but fail to find happiness there. See prey iew. Monday Lizard Mon 2‘) Apr. 8pm. Free. An evening of new Scottish work. performed in a i'ela\ed atmosphere in the bar. with liye music and D.ls.
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GLASGOW
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Singles Night
Des ()'(’onnor
Arabian Night
Animal Farm
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Animal Farm Willian Burroughs
Singles Night
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Royal Lyceum
St Bride’s Traverse 1
EDINBURGH
The linsemble (iroup
'l‘uming Tides
The King & l
Medea
Des ()'(‘onnor
'lurning Titles
The Kliig ck 1
Victory
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Medea
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Woman Of No importance Woman ()I' No lmixinance Woman ()1 No linixiitance
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66 THE LIST 2‘3 Apr—9 May 2002