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The Steamie Mon 30 Apr–Sat 5 May, 7.30pm (Wed, Thu & Sat mat 2.30pm). Tue 22–Sat 26 May, 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £12–£32. Tony Roper’s washhouse comedy. Wonderful Town Tue 8–Sat 12 May, 7.30pm (Wed mat 2.30pm; Sat mat 3pm). £37.50–£52. Connie Fisher stars in this tale of a writer who embarks on an adventure in New York. The Gruffalo Thu 10–Sat 12 May. See Kids listings. Avenue Q Mon 14–Thu 17 May, 7.30pm; Fri 18 May, 5.30pm & 8.30pm; Sat 19 May, 4pm & 7.30pm. £28–£35. X-rated Sesame Street about life, love and what to do with your BA in English. Hair Mon 21–Sat 26 May. CANCELLED. ■ OFFSHORE 3/5 Gibson Street, offshorecoffee.co.uk Some Just Can’t Bite Sat 28–Mon 30 Apr, 7pm. £6. A play about two vampires, Kenny and Piotr, and what happens when one of them meets a willing victim via Facebook. Email info@attunetheatre.co.uk for tickets.
■ ÒRAN MÓR 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Dear Glasgow Until Sat 28 Apr, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Seven letters to Glasgow from authors in the Arab world are read out by established writers from these shores. Ticket price for this an all Play, Pie, Pint shows below includes a pie and drink. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Hadda and Hassan Lekliches! Mon 30 Apr–Sat 5 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. A Moroccan woman addresses a political and emotional monologue to God in this new lunchtime play by Jaouad Assounani. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Damascus Alleppo Mon 7–Sat 12 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. A Damascene psychiatrist
PREVIEW NEW PLAY LADY M: HIS FIEND-LIKE QUEEN? Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Wed 25–Sat 28 Apr As artistic director of Scottish Youth Theatre and a frequent contributor to Òran Mór’s Classic Cuts season, Mary McCluskey is no stranger to slimming down a Shakespeare play to its essential components. And in the year of the World Shakespeare Festival, she has stripped back the Scottish Play in this new Theatre Jezebel production. Lady M will focus purely on Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and the three Weird Sisters, and aims to better explore the relationship between the leading couple. ‘I think Macbeth and Lady Macbeth are not all evil,’ says McCluskey. ‘I read somewhere that Macbeth is so popular because the character himself is seen as an everyman, as being this loyal, true, very brave warrior who loves his wife, and he’s led astray. The Weird Sisters play on his ambition, and anybody given an opportunity to achieve greatness in that way would grab it. The audience can relate to this ordinary man put in exceptional circumstances.’
Lady M comes a year after David Greig’s lauded Dunsinane, a sequel to
Macbeth. For McCluskey, the enduring appeal of the tragedy is easy to explain. ‘I think it’s a great story,’ she says. ‘It’s epic and it’s also intimate. I suppose we’re looking at ways of putting our 21st-century spin on that 16th/17th- century language. And that’s the great thing about Shakespeare: the universality of the themes and the way he looks at the human condition – it’s still relevant to us as human beings living in the 21st century.’ (Yasmin Sulaiman)
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finds himself counselling the man he suspects of having a relationship with his missing son in this play by an anonymous Syrian writer. Candid Cabaret Mon 7–Thu 10 May, 7pm. £10.50 (£7.50). A new variety show from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s musical theatre performers, with stories, chat, humour and music in a range of genres. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Sleeping Beauty Insomnia Mon 14–Sat 19 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Two men shelter in a bombed out theatre in Beirut, with the body of a dead girl as their only companion in this dark new comedy by Abdelrahim Alwaj. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: One Day in Spring Mon 21–Sat 26 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Twenty-four playwrights from the region each present a dramatic snapshot of one moment in places from Tunis to Alexandria and beyond.
■ PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Singin’ I’m No a Billy He’s a Tim Until Sat 5 May (not Sun/Mon), 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm). £17.50. Goldfish Theatre presents its take on Des Dillon’s classic anti-sectarian play. Sinderella Wed 23 May–Sat 9 Jun (not Sun–Tue), 7.30pm (Sat 2 & 9 Jun mat 2pm). £17.50–£22.50. Jim Davidson’s new version of his adults-only panto. ■ PLATFORM The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696. Home Thu 3 & Fri 4 May, 7.30pm (Thu mat 1.30pm). £8 (£3.50–£4.50). A new performance piece from the group at Sense Scotland, who brought Park to the Platform stage last year. We Are All Just Human Beings at Different Stages of Our Lives Thu 17 & Fri 18 May, 7pm; Sat 19 May, 2pm. £8 (£3.50–£4.50). An inter-
Mad Padraic kills for a cause. But his cat will be the death of him.
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