Theatre
Events are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to theatreGlist.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Kirstin lnnes.
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Glasgow
I THE ARCHES
253 Argyle Street. 565 1000. IH. WC. WA]
Shakespeare in the City: Macbeth Until Sat 7 Jun. 7pm (Thu mat 1pm). £7 (£4). ()ut. damned spots! Glasgow‘s annual student Shakespeare festival tackles The Scottish Play.
Scotland United Thu 12 Jun. 7.30pm. £8 (£5). Ankur Productions unites an intemational team of performers from Scotland to provide a mix of music. dance and comedy in collaboration with the Scottish Refugee Council. See Food for Thought. page 15. Part of Refugee Week. Shakespeare in the City: Much Ado About Nothing Tue l7—Sat 21 Jun. 7pm (Thu mat 1pm). £7 (£4). Pigtail- pulling fun with Benedick and Beatrice. as RSAMD students take on Shakespeare's most accomplished war-of- the-sexes comedy.
I CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street. 352 4900. IH. WC. WA] Scenes from Room 44 Until Fri 6 Jun. lpm. £5 (£3). A tale of love. death. wine and quantum physics. Obviously. Part of the Fiendish Plat: Love and Death at Lunchtime series. Forgetting Sebastian Tue 10—Fri 13 Jun. 1pm. £5 (£3). New play by Kenny McKenna exploring trust. fantasy. truth and suspicion as a woman returns home to find a man locked in a chest. Part of the Fiendish Plat: Love and Death at Lunchtime series. I CITIZENS’ THEATRE 1 19 Gorbals Street. 429 0022. IP. H. WC. WA] The Sound of my Voice Until Sat 7 Jun (not Sun/Mon). 7.30pm. £12 (£3-£6). Citz head man Jeremy Raison directs a new adaptation of Ron Butlin’s beautiful. often underrated novel. See review. page 96. Liar Until Sat 7 Jun (not Sun/Mon). New play aimed at 8—12 year olds. by Davey Anderson. See review. page 96. I GILMOREHILL 612 9 University Avenue. 330 5522. IWC. WA] Bloomin’ Love Until Thu 5 Jun. 7.30pm. £3. Foolcrum Theatre presents the tale of an ordinary fool looking for love. Jekyll and Hyde Until Sat 7 Jun. 7.30pm. £8.50 (£6). Stevenson’s Gothicky
dual identity horror is reworked into a Broadway musical. Stowaways Theatre Company brings the black stuff to Glasgow.
New Writing New Worlds 2008 Fri 6 & Sat 7 Jun. 7.30pm. £4. Mini-new writing festival dedicated to literary development and new work. provides an opportunity for talented. emerging theatre artists to develop their skills and see their work realised on the stage. New Writing from STaG Thu l2—Sat
14 Jun. 7pm. £3-£5. Work from some of
the best new student playwrights at Glasgow University.
The Blank Album and Songs of Home Fri 13 & Sat 14 Jun. 8pm. £8 (£5). Comic dance theatre from Gilmore Dance Company. Part of the West [ind Fest.
The Wicket Chronicles & The Seventh Tide Wed 18 Jun. See Kids listings.
Tasting . . . New Writing Thu l9--Sat 2| Jun. 7pm. £5. Sample the talent of Scotland‘s emerging writers. actors and directors in a mini-festival of new plays. There's a lot of this going around this fortnight. huh'.’ Part of the West [ind Fest.
I KING’S THEATRE
297 Bath Street. 0870 060 6648. IH. WC. WA]
Dancing Queen Until Sat 7 Jun. 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm).
£12 £25. Because what the world needs now is another ABBA musical. Mamma Mia. here we go again.
The Wedding Singer Mon 9 Sat 14 Jun. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm); 5.30pm & 8.30pm. £14—£31. Adam Sandler‘s 1980s retro-fest is the latest movie to get the rather pointless big budget musical
treatment. That nice Natalie Casey off of
I'll-r) I’ints aflxiger. . . stars.
La Boheme Mon 16-Wed 18 Jun. 7.30pm. £1 1 £32.50. Puccini's romantic tragedy of doomed love.
La Traviata Thu l9—Sat 2| .lun. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £l3—£32.50. Yup. more tragic. doomed lovin'. this time from Verdi. performed by the Russian State ()pera.
I INTERMEDIA GALLERY
CCA. 350 Sauchiehall Street. 552 2540. [WC]
"II its not hard (to say goodbye) Sat 7 Jun. 7—9pm. No. there isn't supposed to be an apostrophe up there. To coincide with the release of Anthony Schrag’s new book about his
series of live an events. Its not hard (see.
no apostrophe there either). an evening of thoughts and performances on and around live art.
I ORAN "OR
731 —735 Great Western Road. 357 6200. A Play, a Pie 8. a Pint Cut-Down Classics 12.30pm for 1.05pm. £10 including pie and pint. Classic plays
whittled down to handy lunchtitne size so they still last the duration of your pie and pint. Repeated on Wednesday evenings as A Dinner. a Drama and a Dram. See preview. page 94.
The Way of the World Until Sat 7 Jun. Tam Dean Burn adapts William
C ongreve's restoration comedy.
King Lear Mon 9 Jun-«Sat 14 Jun. Shakespeare’s play about the trouble with elderly relatives.
The Shoemaker’s Wonderful Wife Mon 16—Sat 21 Jun. Mini version of Federico Garcia Lorca‘s play.
I THE OUADRANOLE Main Campus. Glasgow University. 330 4951.
The Winter’s Tale Tue 17—Sun 22 Jun. 8pm (Sun mat 3pm). £16 (£12). Shakespeare‘s Globe retum with their critically acclaimed production of The Winter's 'Iale. Part of the West End Fest.
I SECC: CLYDE AUDITORIUM Finnieston Quay, 0870 040 4000. IP. H. WC. WA]
Britain’s Got Talent Thu 19 Jun. 7.30pm. £29.50—£32.50. The finalists and winners of lTV‘s talent show perform live.
I THEATRE ROYAL 282 Hope Street. 08700606647. 1H. NGD. WC. WA] Scottish Ballet: Romeo and Juliet Until Sat 7 Jun. 7.30pm (Thu & Sat mat 2pm). £6.50—£33.50. Scottish Ballet adds this contemporary take on the Prokofiev ballet to their award-winning repertoire. bringing Dutch choreographer Krzysztof Pastor on board to bring a fresh twist to the classic tragedy.
Blackbird Mon 9- Sat 14 Jun.
7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £l4—£25.50 (Concessions available). A new large-scale touring production of David Harrower‘s hugely acclaimed 2006 Edinburgh Festival hit play about the repercussions of a paedophiliac relationship. 20 years on. See preview. page 93.
I TRAMWAY
25 Albert Drive. 0845 330 3501. [WC. WA]
The Infinite Pleasures of the Great Unknown Fri 6 & Sat 7 Jun. 8pm. £10 (£6). A theatrical celebration of the death of reality. featuring a fictional theatre company. No. we’re not sure what‘s happening either. but it’s getting us excited. See preview. page 94. Lipstick and Lollypops Fri 6 Jun. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). Deaiinitely Theatre. the only Deaf-led professional theatre company in the UK. presents a comedy- drama about the lives and loves of a group of deaf women. Set in the ladies toilet of a London nightclub.
From Where I Am Standing Fri 13 & Sat 14 Jun. 8pm. £4 (£3). Junction 25. Tramway‘s youth performance company.
present an original show about the dynamics of family life. performed alongside their own parents and grandparents.
Old people, children and anlmals Thu 19—Sat 21 Jun. 8pm. £10(£6). Quarantine. last seen at Tramway with Butterfly. return with the latest in their series of projects that explore the histories of real people. This one. as the title suggests. is performed by over 65s. under 18s and. ah. their pets . . .
I TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate. 552 4267. [H. WC. WA] The Tenement Until Fri 6 Jun. 8pm. £5. How well do you really know your neighbours? This new Tron Studio play by Lawrence Crawford brings the strangers who occupy a building together under cover of a blackout. The First to 60 Thu 5—Sat 7 Jun. 8pm. £10—£14 (£6—£10). Germany 1941 and three people find themselves imprisoned at an institute of eugenics. See review. pa e 96.
Swindle and Death Wed 1 l-Sat
14.1un. 8pm. £10—£14(£6—£10).A rampant. riotous celebration of the (very ancient) history of Scottish theatre. by Peter Amott and Mull Theatre. See preview. page 93. Under the Same Sky Tue 17 & Wed 18 Jun. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). YDance present this contemporary dance-theatre piece. performed by young people from across Glasgow. which explores what it means to be a ‘new Glaswegian' in 2008. Part of Refugee Week 2008. Do You See Me? Wed 18 & Thu 19 Jun. 8pm. £3 (£2). New play exploring the harsh reality of school life, peer pressure and the joys of escaping into cyber space. Performed by Knightswood Youth Theatre. made up of young Glaswegians. asylum seekers and refugees. Part of Refugee Week 2008.
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I BRUNTON THEATRE Ladywell Way. Musselburgh. 665 2240. IP. H. WC. WA]
East Lothian Youth Theatre 0. East Lothian Youth Dance Company Showcase Fri 6 & Sat 7 Jun. 7.30pm. £6 (fatnin ticket £22). Annual showcase with a superhero theme.
Morag Alexander School of Dance Annual Show Mon l6—Sat 28 Jun. 7pm (Sat mat 3pm). £12 (children £8). The school's annual perfonnance of singing and dancing.
I DUNCAN PLACE RESOURCE CENTRE
17 Duncan Place. Leith.
As You Always Do Fri 6—Sun 8 Jun. 8.30pm. £8 (£6). Following the success of IRE-1D], Gappad return to the Tron
with another bilingual (Polish/English)
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98 THE LIST 5—19 Jun 2008