Theatre
A Song and a Sip Sun 22 Apr, 4pm. £12. Cabaret afternoon with songs from the musicals, courtesy of Insideout Productions in the Tron’s Victorian Bar. Lady M: His Fiend-Like Queen? Wed 25–Sat 28 Apr, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £7–£15. A work directed and adapted from Macbeth by Mary McLuskey and produced by McLuskey and Kenny Miller’s Theatre Jezebel company, exploring the relationship between the Scottish play’s notorious power couple. ■ WOODSIDE HALL 36 Glenfarg Street, apolloplayers@hotmail.com Little Shop of Horrors Thu 19–Sat 21 Apr, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £14 (£12). The Apollo Players perform the cult musical.
EDINBURGH
■ ADAM HOUSE 3 Chambers Street, 650 8058. Six Degrees Of Separation Wed 4–Sat 7 Apr, 7.30pm. £10 (£5). Edinburgh Graduate Theatre Group puts on John Guare’s play probing the theory that everyone in the world is connected by a string of just six people.
■ BRUNTON THEATRE Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. Half a Sixpence Mon 2–Sat 7 Apr, 7.30pm. £11–£12 (£9 on Mon & Tue). Show-stopping musical from Musselburgh Amateur Musical Association. Equus Fri 13 & Sat 14 Apr, 7.30pm. £11.25 (£9.25; under 18s £6). A psychiatrist is enlisted to cure a 17-year- old boy whose obsession with horses has led him to behave in a devastating way in this production from London Classic Theatre. ✽✽ Kith/Kin Thu 19 Apr, 12.30am. £10.75 (£8.75; under 18s £6). See Platform, Glasgow. The Kilkennys: ‘Fine Girl, Ye Are!’ Sat 21 Apr, 7.30pm. £15.25 (£13.25). Irish band The Kilkennys tell the story of the Clancy Brothers, in a theatrical show narrated by Cathal McCabe. Italia ‘n’ Caledonia Wed 25 Apr, 7.30pm. £11.25 (£9.25; under 18s £6). A warm-hearted look at the culture of Scots Italians. ■ CHURCH HILL THEATRE 33a Morningside Road, 447 7597. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Thu 29-Sat 31 Mar, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £10–£14. Edinburgh Musical Theatre present Stephen Sondheim’s murderous masterpiece with fully integrated BSL signing, telling the gruesome tale through voice and signs simultaneously. Daisy Pulls It Off Wed 4 Apr, 8pm. £12.50 (£10.50). Musical from full-time performing arts students at the MGA Academy. Tickets available from MGA Box Office by emailing tickets@themgacompany.com Step in Time Fri 6 Apr, 8pm; Sat 7 Apr, 3pm & 8pm. £12.50 (£10.50). Dance from stage and screen by the students of MGA Academy of performing arts. Tickets available via the MGA Box Office, as above.
■ THE EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE 18-22 Greenside Place, 0844 871 3014. South Pacific ●●●●● Tue 3–Sat 14 Apr (not Sun), 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). Sweeping romantic story of two couples threatened by the realities of war and by their own prejudices. Chicago Mon 23–Thu 26 Apr, 7.30pm; Fri 27 & Sat 28 Apr, 5pm & 8.30pm. £20.50–£39. Cell block musical telling the tale of adulterous nightclub dancer Roxie Hart and double-talking lawyer Billy Flynn.
■ EDINBURGH FESTIVAL THEATRE 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. 116 THE LIST 29 Mar–26 Apr 2012
Scottish Opera: The Rake’s Progress Thu 29 Mar & Sat 31 Mar, 7.15pm. £10–£67.50. Stravinsky’s most famous opera is a taut morality tale about the decline and fall of an 18th century gentleman. The Steamie Tue 10–Sat 14 Apr, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £15–£28 (£12–£25). Tony Roper’s washhouse comedy about the relationships between a group of working women as they rush to finish their work before the New Year bells, now celebrating its 25th anniversary. ✽✽ Scottish Ballet: A Streetcar 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm). £16.50–£37.50). See Theatre Royal, Glasgow. Calendar Girls Mon 23–Sat 28 Apr, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm). £11.50–£29.50). The show about the Women’s Institute fundraisers who Named Desire Wed 18–Sat 21 Apr,
stripped for a (tasteful) nude calendar. ■ GHILLIE DHU 2 Rutland Place, 222 9930. The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart ●●●●● Tue 17 & Wed 18 Apr, 7.30pm. £15. Another chance to see this lively, pub-set show taking audiences on a journey through tales of the supernatural, music and theatre, all inspired by Border Ballads.
■ NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SCOTLAND Chambers Street, 0300 123 6789. Emotion and Motion Mon 2 Apr, 5.30–7pm. £8 (£6). A combination of talk (from Dr Peter Lovatt) and contemporary dance performance (from Ruth Mills) on the science of human emotion. Part of Edinburgh International Science Festival.
PREVIEW NEW WRITING WRITE HERE FESTIVAL Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Mon 16–Tue 24 Apr
Two months into her role as the Traverse’s artistic director, Orla O’Loughlin has launched one of the most exciting new writing festivals Edinburgh has seen in years. Write Here will showcase work from the theatre’s Young Writers Group graduates alongside talks by Traverse luminaries Zinnie Harris and Gregory Burke and rehearsals of new plays by Peter Arnott, Rob Drummond and Morna Pearson.
O’Loughlin says: ‘It’s an offer to the audience to come and see a wide range of work at very different stages of development by writers at different stages of their career. The gesture is come and get involved, come and participate. It’s a two way process: it’s not just about us saying “here’s some work, come and see it”. It’s actually come and tell us what you think of it, meet the writers, ask me a question.’
Demos, a new audience-driven verbatim play by 2012 Olivier Award
nominee Tim Price, will end the festival and promises to be a thrilling climax. ‘Tim spent a lot of time around the Occupy movement, recording and speaking to people,’ O’Loughlin explains. ‘He wrote a play with over 50 parts, which asks what democracy is and what democracy looks like. In order to stage it, it requires people to get involved. Part of the joy is how is this going to work? Is it going to work? It’s an offer to the audience to come and make it happen. I can’t think of anything quite like it – and that’s the whole purpose of doing it.’ (Yasmin Sulaiman)
■ ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Grindlay Street, 248 4848. The Marriage of Figaro Until Sat 14 Apr (not Sun/Mon), 7.45pm (Sat & Wed mat 2.30pm). £14.50–£29. See review, page 112. ✽✽ The Lieutentant of Inishmore Sun/Mon), 7.45pm (Wed 25 & Sat 28 Apr, Wed 2, Sat 5 & Sat 12 May mat 2.30pm). £14.50–£29. The Lyceum presents another gruesomely absurd comedy from Martin McDonagh (who also wrote In Bruges). Fri 20 Apr–Sat 12 May (not
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Dayglo Thu 5 Apr, 8–9.30pm. £8 (£6). Abi Brown’s Dayglo is possibly the only play ever to combine pharmacogenetics and punk. Part of Edinburgh International Science Festival. ■ ST BRIDE’S CENTRE 10 Orwell Terrace, 346 1405. Dance for All Spring Fling Fri 30 & Sat 31 Mar, 7.30pm. £10 (£8). A showcase of dance plus musical theatre from Dance for All’s professional students and senior dance school pupils. Gaydonia Thu 12–Sat 14 Apr, 7.30pm. £9 (£7). World premiere of a comedy drama about a financial crisis-stricken fictional European country called Gaydonia.
■ TRAVERSE THEATRE Cambridge Street, 228 1404. Talent Night in the Fly Room Thu 29 Mar, 7.30pm. £6. Songs, poems and sketches in a revue written and directed by Peter Arnott. 2401 Objects Fri 30 & Sat 31 Mar, 7.30pm. £17 (£13). Theatre based on the true story of Henry Molaison, who awoke after brain surgery without the ability to form new memories. ✽✽ For Once Wed 4–Sat 14 Apr (not Sun/Mon), 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £15–£17 (£6–£13). See preview, page 111. Traverse Introducing Mon 16–Sat 21 Apr, 2–3pm. £5. A series of rehearsed readings of work developed by the Traverse with next generation of playwrights. Part of Write Here New Writing Festival. The Fly Room Mon 16 & Tue 17 Apr, 4–5pm (open view rehearsals); Tue 17 Apr 7.30pm (rehearsed reading). £5. A new play by Peter Arnott, in which, genetically engineered survivors of an extinct human race gather in a library at the end of time – all earthly life is here, stored in DNA sequencing, but they have forgotten how to read it. Part of Write Here New Writing Festival. The Artist Man and the Mother Woman Wed 18 & Thu 19 Apr, 4–5pm (open view rehearsals); Thu 19 Apr 7.30pm (rehearsed reading). £5. A new play by Morna Pearson about a middle- aged art teacher, still living with his mother, who sets out to get a girlfriend. Part of Write Here New Writing Festival. Too Far Gone, 4–5pm (open view rehearsals); Fri 20 & Sat 21 Apr; Sat 21 Apr 7.30pm (rehearsed reading). £5. A new play by Rob Drummond, about a mysterious spate of deaths in a remote island community. Part of Write Here New Writing Festival. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Would You Please Look at the Camera Tue 24–Fri 27 Apr, 1pm; Sat 28 Apr, 12.30pm. £12. See Òran Mór, Glasgow. Demos Tue 24 Apr, 7.30pm. £5. World premiere of a new play by Tim Price, composed from interviews conducted in response to the Occupy Movement of winter 2011/12. Part of Write Here New Writing Festival. Platform 18 New Work Award Double Bill Wed 25–Sat 28 Apr, 7pm. £15 (£6–£11). A double bill of Kieran Hurley’s Beats and Gary Gardiner’s Thatcher’s Children. See Arches, Glasgow, for more details. Pass the Spoon ●●●●● Thu 26–Sat