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Events are listed by date, then city. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to comedy@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Siân Bevan. ✽✽ Indicates Listpicks entry welcomes in Carey Marx, Henning Wehn, Alan Francis and Jeff O’Boyle. Comedy @ The State The State Bar, 148 Holland Street, 332 2159. 9pm. £6. Head to the State basement, long-time home to local comedy heroes, for bargainous weekend entertainment.
Thursday 6 Sunday 9
Glasgow FREE Bratchy and the Wee Man’s Comedy Pub Quiz The Arches Café Bar, 253 Argyle Street, 565 1035. 8pm. Comedic brothers Bratchy and the Wee Man, him of YouTube infamy, host a pub quiz with a difference with interactive games, WWE moves and tomfoolery. Oh, and there’ll be cash prizes and all. See preview, page 15. Bruce Morton’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £9 (£8; members £4). Don’t fret about braving the crowds and all that juggling, settle back with the terribly trustworthy Bruce Morton as he introduces a selection of Fringe acts. Tonight it’s Johnny Candon, Henry Packer, Damian Clark and Niall Browne.
Friday 7
Glasgow Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, UGC Building, 11 Renfrew Street, 0844 844 0044. 8pm. From £12. Andy White, Paul Chowdhry, Phil Walker and Brian Higgins offer a night of top comedy, with a club afterwards. DAM Fine Comedy Café Gramofon, 7 King Street, 552 7177. 8.30pm. £5. Viv Gee and Rob Kane host this weekly foray into all things comedy for next to nothing. A different line-up every week, packed with some of the finest circuit comedians in the land.
✽✽ Bruce Morton’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand, 333 Woodlands
Road, 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £10 (£9; members £5). Mr Morton’s Fringe selection box features Alistair Barrie, Ava Vidal, Jason Cook and Joe Rowntree.
Saturday 8 Glasgow Jongleurs Comedy Club Jongleurs, UGC Building, 11 Renfrew Street, 0844 844 0044. 8pm. From £12. See Fri 7. Bruce Morton’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £13. Tonight, Brucie
Glasgow FREE Ha Ha Raw Comedy Ivory Hotel, Langside Avenue, Shawlands, 8.30pm. The Shawlands gig which comes for free continues throughout August. A different line-up every week, courtesy of Ha Ha Comedy. Michael Redmond’s Fringe Sunday The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £6 (£5; members £1). It’s still Sunday evening with Redmond, but with a wee twist of Festival. This evening’s entertainment comes from Jason John Whitehead, Paddy Lennox, Isma Almas and Jim Park.
Tuesday 11
Glasgow Red Raw Fringe Special The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0870 600 6055. 8.30pm. £2 (£1). OK, so you’re probably sick of hearing about the Festival, but it does mean you get your regular brilliant new talent night but with extra special headliners. Tonight it’s Carl Hutchinson.
Wednesday 12 Glasgow Billy Kirkwood’s Midweek Fringe The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £5 (£4; members £2.50). The ever affable Billy Kirkwood cheers everyone up with some of the finest acts performing at the other end of the M8. Thusly, Kevin Hayes, Jim Park, Carl Hutchinson and Diane Morgan.
Thursday 13
Glasgow Joe Heenan’s Pick of the Fringe The Stand, 333 Woodlands Road, 0870 600 6055. 9pm. £9 (£8; members £2.50). The lovely, familiar face of Joe Heenan is here to soothe everything in these chaotic times. He’s bringing along a pick of comedians from that there Fringe, but will be there in case you get scared. Tonight it’s Nick Wilty, Tom Allen, Joel Dommett and Elaine Malcolmson.
Bruce Morton’s Pick of the Fringe Lanky Londoner, Ava Vidal (pictured) joins the Friday night line-up at The Stand, where host Bruce Morton gives a bite-size taster portion of Fringe comedy shows going on at the other end of the M8. ■ The Stand, Glasgow, Fri 7 Aug.
22 THE LIST 6–13 Aug 2009
Walden Henry David Thoreau’s classic experimental, almost unclassifiable autobiographical novel is adapted for the
stage by up-and-coming young company Magnetic North. Catch it during this brief run in Glasgow before it gets absorbed into the theatrical melting pot of the Fringe. ■ GilmorehillG12, Glasgow, Thu 13–Sat 15 Aug.
Events are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to theatre@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Suzanne Black. ✽✽ Indicates Listpicks entry
Glasgow
■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Contact Jam Sun 9 Aug. 1pm. £3. A chance for dancers and musicians to jam and collaborate.
■ GILMOREHILL G12 9 University Avenue, 330 5522.
✽✽ Walden Thu 13–Sat 15 Aug. 7.30pm (Sat mat 3pm). £10 (£8).
Walden; or Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau’s 1854 account of individualism and living with nature is adapted by Magnetic North into a piece of theatre created for non-theatre spaces, which is part performance, part philosophy class.
presents the story of the plucky red-head who struggles to find her estranged parents, with many a song and dance along the way. Angelina Ballerina’s Big Audition Tue 11 & Wed 12 Aug. See Kids listings. ■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Pinocchio Until Sat 8 Aug. 7.30pm. £10 (£6; family ticket £26). Scottish Youth Theatre goes back to the original, darker tale about a boy who finds it very hard to be good.
Outside the Cities ■ DUNDEE REP Tay Square, Dundee, 01382 223530. Rent Tue 11–Sat 15 Aug. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £12–£14 (£9–£11). Apex Productions presents the musical that updates Puccini’s La bohème to 1980 New York and a group of impoverished young artists and musicians living in the age of HIV/AIDS.
■ PLATFORM The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696. One Up One Down Fri 7 Aug. 12.30pm. £tbc. A new show by Natasha Gilmore with music by Quee MacArthur and poetry performed by Tawona Sithole and Company. ■ PERTH CONCERT HALL Mill Street, Perth, 07838 621031. The Lady Boys of Bangkok Thu 6 Aug. 7.30pm. £18. A sell-out every time it comes to Scotland, the girls return with a new show, the ‘Mile High Tour’ and, if possible, even more spectacular costumes.
■ SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, 552 4267. Hamlet Until Sat 8 Aug. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm). £10 (£6). A modern interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic with the Danish prince played by a woman. Hidden Treasures Until Sat 8 Aug. See Kids listings. ■ THEATRE ROYAL 282 Hope Street, 0870 060 6647. Annie The Musical Until Sat 8 Aug. 7.30pm (Thu & Sat mat 2.30pm). £11–£26. In a new production featuring Su Pollard (Hi-De-Hi), Chris Moreno
■ PERTH THEATRE 185 High Street, Perth, 07838 621031. The Singing Kettle: Boogie Woogie Zoo Thu 6–Sat 8 Aug. See Kids listings. ■ BYRE THEATRE Abbey Street, St Andrews, 01334 475000. First You’re Born Thu 6–Fri 28 Aug (not Sun/Mon). 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £10–£16 (£10–£13). Line Knutzon’s absurdly romantic comedy is performed in Britain for the first time. This tale of six social misfits stumbling between love and loneliness is presented by theatre company Plutot la Vie.