list.co.uk/theatre ■ THEATRE ROYAL 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647. Rough Justice Wed 29 Aug–Sat 1 Sep, 7.30pm (Thu & Sat mat 2.30pm). £12–£32. Famous television commentator James Highwood (played here by Tom Conti) is on the stand for the murder of his disabled child in this gripping courtroom thriller. Scottish Opera: In the Locked Room & Ghost Patrol Thu 6 & Fri 7 Sep, 7.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). A double bill exploring the power of the mind, from a locked door that sparks an obsession to a modern bar where three people trying to escape their past meet and uncover a terrible secret. Co-produced with Music Theatre Wales composers Huw Watkins and Stuart MacRae team up with poet David Harsent and crime novelist Louise Welsh respectively to stage these tales. Scottish Opera: Clemency Sat 8 Sep, 2.15pm; Sun 9 Sep, 7.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). Clemency offers a contemporary twist on the Biblical take of Sarah and Abraham. Written for string orchestra and five voices it re-unites composer James MacMillan and librettist Michael Symmons Roberts. See feature, page 98. Scottish Opera: The Lady from the Sea Sat 8 Sep, 7.15pm; Sun 9 Sep, 2.15pm. £27 (seniors £24). Ellida, the daughter of a lighthouse keeper longs for freedom from her narrow life with her older husband. Then the arrival of an unexpected stranger offers an escape. A re-telling of Ibsen’s beautiful drama from author Zoe Strachan and film composer Craig Armstrong. See feature, page 98. The Mousetrap Mon 17–Sat 22 Sep, 7.30pm (Wed, Thu & Sat mat 2.30pm). £12.50–£32. The record breaking show adapted from Agatha Christie’s book of the same name has been performed over 23,000 times.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501.
✽Ménage à Trois Fri 24 & Sat 25 Aug, 7.30pm. £10 (£8). Award-winning performer Claire Cunningham performs a new piece commissioned for Unlimited, a project celebrating disability, arts, culture and sport as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad. Darkly humorous and deeply intimate, the piece explores Cunningham’s relationship with her crutches and themes of love, obsession and loneliness. See preview, page 88.
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Return to the Forbidden Planet Fri 31 Aug & Sat 1 Sep, 7.45pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £10 (£8). What do you get if you combine a retro soundtrack, Shakespeare’s Tempest and an outer space setting? This fun musical, performed here by an amateur group. A Beginning, a Middle and an End Wed 5–Sat 8 Sep, 8pm. £10 (£7). Greyscale and Stellar Quines present a new play by Sylvia Dow – her first, written at the age of 73.
✽My Shrinking Life Sat 8–Sat 15 Sep (not Sun/Mon), 7.45pm. £7–£15. Actor,
director and film/theatre maker Alison Peebles tells of the emotional and physical journey she has been on since first being ‘unofficially’ diagnosed with MS 12 years ago. See preview, page 85. The Incredible Adventures of See Thru Sam Thu 20–Sat 29 Sep, 7.45pm. £7–£15. The moving story of a 15-year- old superhero whose powers to become invisible whenever he needs to are slowly beginning to fail him. Presented by Random Accomplice. Love’s Labours Lost Thu 20 Sep, 8.30pm. £2.50. Stone Soup Shakespeare presents another comedy, about four young men who swear off women – but are soon thwarted by the arrival of a princess.
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