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GLASGOW
■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. Tom Pritchard: As Yet Untitled Sat 28 May & Fri 24 Jun, 7pm. £3 (£2). See preview, page 130. Scratch Night Mon 30 May, 7.30pm. £2. Performers get ten minutes each to try out new ideas in front of an audience and seek feedback.
✽✽ Dead Man’s Cell Phone Wed 8–Fri 10 Jun, 7pm. £7 (£5). See
preview, page 128.
7pm. £7 (£5). See preview, page 128. ✽✽ Entre Nous Wed 15–Fri 17 Jun, On the Verge Mon 20–Thu 23 Jun, 6pm. £9 (£6). Students from the RSAMD perform devised pieces, new writing and classic texts.
■ BRITANNIA PANOPTICON MUSIC HALL 113–117 Trongate, 553 0840. Music Hall Memories Sat 28 & Sun 29 May, 1pm & 3pm. By donation. Re- live the Music Hall days with a variety show full of saucy singers, comics, jugglers, dancers and magicians in one of the world’s oldest intact music halls. ■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Mexico Sat 18 Jun, 1pm. £3. A fun play developed by the children attending the CCA’s Acting Up drama classes, about a failing holiday camp in Mexico. FREE National Theatre of Scotland: Five Minute Theatre Tue 21 Jun, 5pm. Part of a worldwide day of five-minute pieces of theatre, venues around Glasgow will be broadcasting efforts from around the world as well as giving Glaswegians the opportunity to perform their own.
■ CITIZENS THEATRE 119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022. After the End Until Sat 4 Jun, Tue–Sat, 7.30pm (Sat 28 May mat 2.30pm). £12.50. New play by award-winning playwright Dennis Kelly about a couple who wake up in a nuclear shelter after an attack. Divided City Fri 27 May, 7.30pm. £7.50. A new musical adaptation of Theresa Breslin’s award-winning children’s book that is a co-production between the Citz and Glasgow City Council, and features schoolchildren from secondary schools across the city.
✽✽ Dunsinane Tue 7–Sat 11 Jun, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm).
£10–£17.50 (£7–£14.50; Tue all tickets £10). See review, page 128. Fair Friday Wed 8–Sat 11 Jun, 7.30pm. £10 (£7–£7.50). An evening of true stories, traditional songs and community spirit, presented by the Citizens Community Company. ■ THE CORINTHIAN CLUB 191 Ingram Street, 552 1101. Midweek Magic Wed 8 & 22 Jun, 7.30pm & 9.30pm. £10. Wonder at the magical powers of Douglas Cameron.
■ COTTIER THEATRE 93–95 Hyndland Street, 0844 395 4000. Another Road Fri 27 & Sat 28 May, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £10. Cutting- edge social realism from Estrado Arts Theatre set in late 2011 and following the plight of those affected by economic cutbacks. Not recommended for children or those of a sensitive disposition. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tue 7 & Wed 8 Jun, 1pm. £5 (£3). Acting and Performance students from Ayr College present Shakespeare’s best loved and most mixed-up comedy. Part of the West End Festival.
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Singin’ I’m No a Billy, He’s a Tim Wed 8–29 Jun, 7.30pm. £12–£14 (£10–£12). Goldfish Theatre presents its take on Des Dillon’s dependable comedy of identity, bigotry and humanity, seen through the eyes of a Celtic and a Rangers fan locked up in a cell together for the duration of an Old Firm match. West End Festival. ■ EASTWOOD PARK THEATRE Eastwood Park, Rouken Glen Road, Giffnock, 577 4970. ■ 3 Wed 8–Sat 11 Jun, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £10–£12. New musical from Harlequin Youth Theatre about a 13-year- old boy on a mission to get all the cool kids from school to come to his Bar Mitzvah. Playtime Sat 18 Jun, 2pm. £3. Work created during weekly drama classes by Eastwood Park’s junior theatre groups.
■ GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS 730 Great Western Road, 334 2422.
✽✽ A Midsummer Night’s Dream Wed 22 Jun–Sat Sat 9 Jul (not
Sun/Mon), 7.45pm. £15 (£10; previews Wed 22 and Thu 23 Jun £12 (£8)). See feature, page 127. Part of Bard in the Botanics & the West End Festival. ■ THE HALT BAR 160 Woodlands Road, 352 9996. Attempts on Her Life Thu 9 & Fri 10 Jun, 7pm. £3 suggested donation. Glasgow-based Makeshift Broadcast offer up an interpretation of Martin Crimp’s experimental text. West End Festival.
■ KELVINSIDE HILLHEAD PARISH CHURCH Observatory Road, 334 2788. FREE Noah’s Flood Fri 17 & Wed 22 Jun, 7.30pm. The familiar tale of Noah and an awful lot of water, as told in Medieval morality plays.
■ KING’S THEATRE 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. The Sound of Music Until Sat 4 Jun (not Sun), Tue–Sat 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm); Mon 7pm. £39.50–£46. Direct from the London Palladium, Jason Donovan stars as Captain von Trapp (except 30 and 31 May) in the family musical full of everyone’s favourite songs. Evita Mon 6–Sat 11 Jun, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical biography of Eva Peron comes to town. Jekyll & Hyde Mon 13–Sat 18 Jun 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £32.50–£35.50. Musical take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s evocative tale of romance and a battle between good and evil stars Marti Pellow as the protagonists. Tell Me On A Sunday Tue 21 Jun–Sat 25 Jun, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £28.50–£31.50. Once-perennial television face Claire Sweeney leads in this Lloyd Webber musical about an English girl seeking love and success in the Big Apple. ■ LA BODEGA Dance With Attitude Studios, 1120 South Street, 581 3401. Flamenco Fusion Sat 18 Jun, 8pm. £9–£11 (£7.50–£9). A colourful performance from the DWA flamenco dancers and musicians. West End Festival.
■ ÒRAN MÓR 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: I Heart Maths Until Sat 28 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. A heartbroken statistics lecturer searches for love using a pseudo- Darwinian theory. Six and a Tanner Thu 26 May, Mon 6 & Tue 7 Jun, 7.30pm. £12 (£9). One-man play performed by David Hayman based on a man’s memories of his 1950s childhood. West End Festival. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Sins of the Fathers Mon 30 May–Sat 4 Jun, 1pm. £8–£12.50. A new play by Patrick Harkins.
PREVIEW NEW WORK GENERATION Tramway, Glasgow, Wed 15–Sat 18 Jun
Following swiftly on from a winter of discontent that was nowhere more pronounced than among our nation’s young people, comes a new show from Glasgow company Glas(s) Performance looking at the perspectives of today’s 17- and 18-year-olds on life, the universe and everything. Glas(s) Performance are RSAMD alumni Jess Thorpe and Tashi Gore, who
also run the equally highly acclaimed experimental youth theatre group Junction 25 at the Tramway. Gore explains that this, their first commission from the Tramway as Glas(s), has much in common with critically lauded previous shows, in that it involves the two working with ‘experts in the field’ to explore ‘things that are happening, that feel relevant and important to investigate further, and people’s voices who don’t necessarily get heard within the theatre context’.
In past productions that has meant working with a couple in their 70s to explore the notion of a lifelong commitment, or a family of 11 women to explore matrilineal inheritances. This time, partly inspired by a perceived increase in politicisation and stress among the young people they meet through six years of Junction 25, it meant talking to three 17-year-olds and one 18-year-old about their opinions, and working with them to form those opinions into a devised piece of what they term ‘autobiographical performance work’.
The notion of maturity, and the sudden, arbitrary leap into adulthood, is
key to the project: ‘One piece of material we have in the show is a list of all the things that the 18-year-old can do that the 17 year olds can’t do,’ comments Gore, ‘and why should he be able to do them when the others can’t?’ Where previous work has drawn plaudits for being ‘life-affirming’ and ‘warm’ in its gentle insights into real people’s lives, it’s safe to assume here that current political tensions will surface as the young people consider, through a montage of movement, found materials, speeches and slices of popular culture, what kind a world they are about to inherit. (Laura Ennor)
A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Daphnis & Chloe Mon 6–Sat 11 Jun, 1pm. £8–£12.50. The latest season of ‘Classic Cuts’ (lunchbreak-friendly abridged versions of classic works) begins with Hattie Naylor’s version of the only known drama by Greek second-century writer Longus. West End Festival. A Play, A Pie and A Pint: Wind in the Pines Mon 13–Sat 18 Jun, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Abridged and translated by Paddy Cunneen, this story of love and loss revolves around two grief-stricken women, and was originally written by Kanami in the Japanese Noh style. West End Festival. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Mon 20–Sat 25 Jun, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Shakespearean comedy, chopped and squeezed ‘til it fits into your lunch hour. West End Festival. ■ PARTICK LIBRARY 305 Dumbarton Road, 276 1560. FREE National Theatre of
Scotland: Five Minute Theatre Tue 21 Jun, 5pm. See CCA, Glasgow. ■ PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Billy Elliot: The Musical Wed 8–Sat 11 Jun, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm). £15 (£10). Shine Youth Music Theatre bring the story of the boy who wants to dance to the stage.
■ RAMSHORN THEATRE 98 Ingram Street, 552 3489. Motherwell College: Neil Simon’s London Suite Thu 26 May, 7.30pm. £7.50. A pacy comedy about four couples staying in an upmarket hotel. Motherwell College: I Love You Because . . . Fri 27 May, 7.30pm. £7.50. New York-set musical updating of the Pride and Prejudice story. Motherwell College: Personals Sat 28 May, 2.30pm. £7.50. Musical revue made up of some unusual personal ads and their responses.
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