PREVIEW 2010
ART Supporting the home team at Glasgow International The next instalment of the biennial festival of visual art has an ‘Open Glasgow’ theme, putting the focus on home-grown artists of all levels of fame. And there are a lot. So fly that flag with pride. ■ Glasgow, 16 April–3 May.
THEATRE Connecting Chekhov and a Paisley carpet factory in The Cherry Orchard John Byrne, author of The Slab Boys (the comedy set in a carpet factory) and Tutti Frutti, is back after turning Uncle Vanya into an abrasive Uncle Varick in 2004. This time he’ll be translating Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard with his customary pizzazz.
■ Royal Lyceum, Edinburgh, 16 April–8 May.
MUSIC Arcade Fire release new album The title is yet to be revealed, the tour dates are yet to be confirmed and the most specific release date we can get is ‘May’ – yet this follow-up to 2007’s Neon Bible could well be our most hotly anticipated release of the year. ■ May.
DANCE Feeing the pulse of Brazilian dance with Companhia de Danca Deborah Colker We’re in for a treat as the Rio de Janeiro company returns to Scotland with Cruel, a fabulous spectacle that blends technology with a series of stories of everyday cruelty and love.
■ Edinburgh Festival Theatre, 21–22 May; Theatre Royal, Glasgow, 22–23 June.
MUSIC Watching Pink get the party started at Hampden Park The Missundaztood wild girl also known as Alecia Beth Moore (although not very often) brings her peroxide pop-rock stylings to Glasgow. Expect a carnival atmosphere, circus-style theatricals and some extremely raunchy costumery, along with some bonafide tomboy anthems. ■ Hampden Park National Stadium, 26 June.
MUSIC Processing beats with Kasabian at T in the Park Serge, Tom and the boys extend their
empire in Scotland with their first headlining slot at the daddy of all music festivals. Rumours abound that a certain Mr N Gallacher may join them, as he’s not got much else to do at the moment. ■ Balado, Kinross-shire, 9–11 July.
ART Savouring the great surrealists up close in Another World Miró, Miró on the wall, who’s the surrealest of them all? Your chance to judge, as the Dean Gallery airs its collection – one of the largest in the world – of Dalí, Magritte and Miró masterpieces, with works of leftfield genius by Picasso and Giacometti thrown in for good measure. ■ Dean Gallery, Edinburgh, 10 July–9 January.
FESTIVAL Discovering the New World with the EIF Jonathan Mills, the ever-curious director of the Edinburgh International Festival, likes to package his programme with a theme. This time he is rediscovering the New World, as Europe did 300 years ago, bringing music, dance and theatre from North, South and Central America, the Pacific Rim and Australia – much of it new territory for the often Eurocentric event. ■ 13 Aug-5 Sep.
CLASSICAL Virginia Woolf being set to music in Orlando Glasgow’s Cryptic, a specialist in music that ‘ravishes the senses’, is to stage a score by Craig Armstrong, whose output ranges from Madonna to Moulin Rouge, inspired by Woolf’s Orlando. The production will be enhanced by a visual projection technology they call the ‘living canvas’. ■ Glasgow and Edinburgh, October.
FESTIVAL Watching the creative sparks fly in Glasgay! The increasingly popular festival is turning into an artistic match-maker, pairing off writers and asking them to reflect on relationships. Among the couples under commission are novelists Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan who are writing a play about two women at large in a post- apocalyptic landscape. Expect creative sparks to fly. ■ Glasgow, 7 October–7 November.
FILM Climbing back on the Light Cycle and rebooting for Tron: Legacy! Jeff Bridges is back in this much- hyped sequel to Disney’s 1982 CG extravaganza. This time round he’s joined by respectable movie veteran John Hurt and Frost/Nixon’s Michael Sheen, with Olivia Wilde and Garrett Hedlund supplying the new blood. ■ General release on 17 Dec.
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