Theatre
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 Hitlist entry Glasgow
■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900.
✽✽ 6 Small Piano Pieces Sat 10 Apr. 8pm. £7 (£5). Performance created
during Dance House’s Choreographic Development Residency by Ian Spink to Schoenberg’s 6 Small Piano Pieces (1911). See page 83.
■ CITIZENS THEATRE 119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022. Three Sisters Until Sat 3 Apr. 7.30pm. £10 (£7). The Citizens Theatre and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama present Chekov’s classic drama, documenting the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. Plasticine Until Sat 3 Apr. 7.30pm. £8 (£6). Vassily Sigarev’s tale of death and violence in contemporary Russian is performed by the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. Treasure Island Tue 13–Sat 17 Apr. See Kids listings. ■ CITY HALLS Candleriggs, 353 8000. Derek Acorah Thu 8 Apr. 7.30pm. £18.50. Most Haunted’s spirit medium takes his mystical show on tour to scare the wits out of believers and meddle in the affairs of the dead.
■ EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. The Rape of Lucrece Fri 9 Apr. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Olivier award nominee and RSC actor Gerard Logan presents a solo performance of Shakespeare’s great narrative poem. One Up, One Down Thu 15 Apr. 7.30pm. £10 (£8). An original blend of dance, theatre, poetry and song depicting the trials of women under pressure in our high-speed consumer culture. A collaboration by Quee Macarthur of Shooglenifty fame, Zimbabwean poet Tawona Sitholé and three dance artists. ■ THE FLYING DUCK 7 Renfrew Court, 572 0100. Stardust and Wild Present . . . Thu 8 Apr. 7.30pm. £5. Burlesque cabaret hosted by Miss Roxy Stardust and Miss Tiffany Wild.
■ GILMOREHILL G12 29 University Avenue, University of Glasgow, 330 5522. The 3 of Me Fri 9 & Sat 10 Apr. 7.30pm. £10. Sweet for Addicts examines madness and the power of words to create a truth or a reality. Camelot Wed 14–Sat 17 Apr. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £12–£14 (£7–£11). Runway Theatre Company presents Lerner and Loewe’s popular musical based on the legend of King Arthur. ■ KING’S THEATRE 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. Dreamboats and Petticoats Until Sat 3 Apr. 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £11–£29. Jukebox musical based on the songs of Roy Orbison, The Shadows and others. Peppa Pig’s Party Wed 7 & Thu 8 Apr. See Kids listings. Just for Joe Fri 9 & Sat 10 Apr. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £12–£22. Brenda Cochrane’s one-woman show, co-written by Elaine C Smith, recounts her own life through drama and song.
■ MUGDOCK COUNTRY PARK Craigallian Road, Milngavie, 956 6100. Talking Heads Fri 2 Apr. 7.45pm. £11 86 THE LIST 1–15 Apr 2010
(£10). Mad Cow in a Raincoat Theatre Company presents a selection of the classic Alan Bennett monologues.
■ ORAN MOR 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. Ticket price includes a pie and drink. Doors 12.30pm on Monday, noon the rest of the week. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: A Prayer Until Sat 3 Apr. 1pm. £8–£12.50. Religion and a life of cold hard facts collide in Selma Dimitrijevic’s drama.
✽✽ A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Tonight David Ireland Will Lecture, Box
and Dance Mon 5–Sat 10 Apr. 1pm. £8–£12.50. Lunchtime drama by Sandy Grierson about a man’s quest for his mysterious Great Uncle Arthur Cravan. See preview, page 83. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Bear on a Chain Mon 12–Sat 17 Apr. 1pm. £8–£12.50. A play about the man who inspired the character of Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk. ■ PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Doon at the Buroo Wed 14–Sat 24 Apr. 7.30pm (Sat 17, Wed 21 & Sat 24 mat 2pm). £12–£16 (£13–£14). New comedy in which two newly redundant shipyard workers meet two equally jobless women from a Govan clothing factory in a local pub.
■ ROYAL CONCERT HALL 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. World Irish Dancing Championships 2010 Until Sat 3 Apr. Times vary. Prices vary. Glasgow welcomes the World Irish Dancing Championships, known as the place where a 17-year-old Michael Flatley first proved his mettle. Dance Drama Extravaganza Featuring Highlights From Michael Flatley’s Lord of the Dance Fri 2 Apr. 8.30pm. £12. Featuring a special performance of selected numbers from the hit show Lord of the Dance.
■ SECC Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. Singin’ I’m No a Billy He’s a Tim Sat 3 Apr. 7.45pm. £16. Des Dillon’s classic anti-sectarian play has two Rangers and Celtic fans locked up together in a cell for the duration of an Old Firm match.
■ SLOAN’S 62 Argyle Arcade, 108 Argyle Street, 221 8886. Cleansed Until Thu 1 Apr. 8pm. £12 (£8). Director Andrew Campbell tackles Sarah Kane’s surreal play, which has been labelled as ‘impossible to stage’.
■ STEREO 22–28 Renfield Lane, 222 2254. The Glass Menagerie Until Fri 2 Apr. 7.30pm. £7 (£6). The Patter Merchants present Tennessee Williams exploration of the frailties of the human condition. Tickets from pattermerchants@hotmail.co.uk
■ THEATRE ROYAL 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. Scottish Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek Thu 8–Sat 10 Apr (not Fri). 7.15pm. £17–£36. Dissolute and disillusioned, Janácek’s comic hero relocates to the moon for a better life. When the lunar avant-garde prove to be too much he travels instead back to 15th century Prague, where he is sentenced to death in a beer barrel. The surreality is underlined by Janácek’s colourfully original score. Co-produced with Opera North, directed by John Fulljames and with soloists John Graham Hall, Frances McCafferty and Donald Maxwell.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501.
✽✽ 1 and 2 Until Sat 3 Apr. 7pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £20 (£15). A new English-language production of Peter Brook’s French play Tierno Bokar about conflict in West Africa under French occupation.
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267.
✽✽ Raspberry Until Sat 3 Apr. 7.30pm. £10.50–£14.50
(£6.50–£10.50). Gothic music theatre inspired by the music of Ian Dury from Fittings Multimedia, Sounds of Progress and Tron Theatre. See preview, page 84.
✽✽ Sick Until Sat 3 Apr. 7.45pm. £8.50 (£6.50). Theatre Modo
presents a powerful clown show developed in collaboration with NHS patient groups following a patient as she sits in her sickbed. See preview, page 83. Fallen Thu 8 & Fri 9 Apr. 7.30pm. £5. A devised piece from Tron Skillshops
about the Ministry, who guide the human heart through the approximately three billion beats it will take in a lifetime. Directed by Lisa Keenan and Gillian Crawford. Crush Wed 14–Sat 17 Apr. 9pm. £6.50–£14.50. Iron Shoes delves into the difficulty of keeping the magic in a relationship, and the lengths to which one man will go to preserve it.
✽✽ I Was a Beautiful Day Wed 14–Sat 17 Apr. 7.30pm.
£6.50–£14.50. Alabaster Productions stage Lewis writer Iain Finlay MacLeod’s play about fellow war-torn psychiatric unit patients Dan and Lube. See preview, page 84. Mish Gorecki Goes Missing Wed 14–Sun 25 Apr. See Kids listings.
■ THE VIPER BAR & CLUB 500 Great Western Road, 07789 540337. Saucy Jack and the Space Vixens Fri 9 & Sat 10 Apr. Fri 7.30pm; Sat 6.30pm & 9.30pm. £12 (£15 at 9.30pm). Naughty futuristic musical with a cult following. Tickets only available from 07789 540337 or on the door.
Edinburgh
■ BRUNTON THEATRE Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. Carousel Mon 5–Sat 10 Apr. 7.30pm. £10–£11 (Mon & Tue £8). Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association presents Roger and Hammerstein’s musical. ■ KING’S THEATRE 2 Leven Street, 529 6000. The Secret of Sherlock Holmes Until Sat 3 Apr. 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £14–£26.50. Peter Egan and Philip Franks reprise their roles from the The Hound of The Baskervilles to examine the adversarial relationship of Holmes and Moriarty. We’ll Meet Again Sun 4 Apr. 2.30pm. £12. A light-hearted look at wartime Britain, featuring melodies of yesteryear and hits from the blitz, set in a wartime garrison theatre. The History Boys Tue 6–Sat 10 Apr. 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £14–£26.50. Alan Bennett’s multi- award winning play of staffroom rivalry and the anarchy of adolescence has its first major revival since the massively popular National Theatre production and subsequent film version.
■ EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY INFORMATICS FORUM 10 Crichton Street, 529 6000.
✽✽ Huxley’s Lab Thu 1–Thu 8 Apr (not Sun). 8pm (Fri 12.30pm only). £15 (£10 on 1 Apr). A site specific work by Grid Iron and Lung Ha’s Theatre Company (who give performance opportunities to actors with learning difficulties) about eugenics. See preview, page 82.
■ FESTIVAL THEATRE 13/29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. Scottish Opera: The Adventures of Mr Broucek Wed 14–Fri 16 Apr (not Thu). 7.15pm. £14–£62. See Glasgow, Theatre Royal.
■ THE GRV 37 Guthrie Street, 220 2987. Hedwig and the Angry Inch Thu 8–Sat 10 Apr. 8pm. £6. One ‘woman’ performance of James Cameron Mitchell’s comedic and rockin’ musical about a young East German boy who suffers a botched sex change and embarks upon life in the US. ■ OUT OF THE BLUE DRILL HALL 30–36 Dalmeny Street, Leith, 555 7101. Paradise? / 1,2,3 Here we Go . . . / Spokes Sat 10 Apr. 8pm. £7 (£5.50 in advance). A triple-bill of contemporary circus theatre.
The History Boys ‘History sir? It’s just one f***ing thing after another.’ The first revival of Alan Bennett’s
multi-award-winning play arrives north of the border as part of a major UK tour. Set in a Yorkshire grammar school The History Boys focuses on the attempts of a group of boisterous sixth-formers to gain entry to Oxford or Cambridge, and their relationship with eccentric English teacher, Hector, and bright junior master Irwin. ■ King’s Theatre, Edinburgh, Tue 6–Sat 10 Apr.