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Corpsing about The nation’s favourite grown-up nerd, Simon Pegg, stars in the Edinburgh-set horror-comedy Burke and Hare, released this Hallowe’en. He tells Niki Boyle about the thin line between scary and funny
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2 THEATRE The Tron kicks off the theatre season with a new production by DC Jackson (The Wall, The Ducky, My Romantic History). The Chooky Brae is a comedy ‘about love, duty and free range fowl’, and will play until Sat 11 Sep.
3 THEATRE Douglas Maxwell (Decky Does a Bronco, Our Bad Magnet) is the writer behind The Bookie, a musical about the clash between Vegas-style glamour and Scots seaside seaminess. The production kicks off at Cumbernauld Theatre from Fri 10 Sep, and will tour around the country until Sat 23 Oct.
4 FILM Alamar tells the tale of an
Italian boy, Natalan, who travels to Mexico to learn about his Mayan roots. The bonds of family and nature are revealed as Natalan iearns to live in harmony with the sea. From Fri 10 Sep.
5 FILM Directed by David Lynch and produced by Werner Herzog, My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done stars Willem Defoe, Chloe Sevigny and Brad Dourif in an inspired-by-true-life story about a man who slays his mother with a sword. You know it’s gonna get weird. On release from Fri 10 Sep.
1 TV Details on BBC2’s four-part
adaptation of Michel Faber’s The Crimson Petal and the White are still sketchy at the
moment – we only know that the Victorian drama will air sometime this autumn, and will feature Gillian Anderson, Richard E. Grant (pictured) and costume drama darling Romola Garai.
20 THE LIST 9–23 Sep 2010