THEATRE ■ THE EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE 18-22 Greenside Place, 0844 871 3014. Cats Until Sat 2 Mar, 7.30pm (Thu & Sat 2.30pm & 7.30pm). £10–£34.50. One of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s most successful musicals. Beyond Broadway Fri 22 Feb, 8.30pm. Fri 15 Mar, 9pm. £15. Show tunes from Broadway and beyond. The Rocky Horror Show Mon 11– Sat 16 Mar, 8pm (Fri & Sat only 5.30pm & 8.30pm). £12–£29.50. See King’s Theatre, Glasgow. Boogie Nights – The 70s Musical Mon 18 Mar, 7.30pm. £22–£35.50. See Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow.
■ EDINBURGH FESTIVAL THEATRE 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. Les Ballets Trockadero De Monte Carlo Fri 22 & Sat 23 Feb, 7.30pm. £17–£29. This all-male company bridge the gap between farce and classical ballet. See preview, page 98. High Society Tue 5–Sat 9 Mar, 7.30pm (Tue & Sat 2.30pm). £15–£39.50. Theatre adaptation of Cole Porter’s musical. Falstaff: Live from the Opera de Paris Tue 12 Mar, 6.30pm. £25. Verdi’s final masterpiece. Kristin Chenoweth Fri 15 Mar, 7.30pm. £25–£60. The Emmy and Tony Award winning Broadway star on a fabulous concert tour. Scottish Dance Theatre: Second Coming and Winter, Again Tue 19 Mar, 7.30pm. £13–£18. The dance troupe’s double-bill spring show.
✽ Northern Ballet: The Great Gatsby Thu 21 & Fri 22 Mar, 7.30pm. Sat 23 Mar, 2.30pm. £12– £36.50. F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic brought to life through dance. See feature, page 22.
■ INSTITUT FRANÇAIS D’ECOSSE 13 Randolph Crescent, 225 5366. Novecento: Pianiste Wed 20 Mar, 6.30–8pm. £8 (members £5). Theatrical monologue by Alessandro Baricco. Originally in Italian, presented tonight in French. ■ KING’S THEATRE 2 Leven Street, 529 6000. Save the Last Dance for Me Thu 21 & Fri 22 Feb, 7.30pm. Sat 23 Feb, 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £13–£36. Relive the music of the 60s as two girls travel through the summer of 1963. Abigail’s Party Mon 25 Feb–Sat 2 Mar, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm). £14–£29.50. Mike Leigh’s play satirising the pretensions of 1970s suburbia. Driving Miss Daisy Tue 5–Sat 9 Mar, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm). £14–£29.50. The tale of an unlikely friendship between an elderly lady and her chauffeur. Southern Light Opera: Oklahoma! Wed 13–Fri 15 Mar, 7.30pm. Sat 16 Mar, 2.30pm. £15–£19. The classic rootin’ tootin’ musical. The Yeomen of the Guard Tue 19– Fri 22 Mar, 7.30pm. Sat 23 Mar, 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £12–£21. Gilbert & Sullivan’s operetta.
■ MALMAISON EDINBURGH 1 Tower Place Too Long The Heart Thu 21–Tue 26 Feb, 7.30pm (not Wed; Sun only 5pm). £10 (£8). Thrilling new play about a fishing trip gone wrong. ■ THE QUEEN’S HALL 87–89 Clerk Street, 668 2019. Resonate: From Studio to Stage Mon 4 Mar, 7.30pm. £7 (£3). Students from Edinburgh schools present an evening of dance, drama and music.
■ ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE Grindlay Street, 248 4848.
✽ Time and the Conways Until Sat 9 Mar, 7.45pm (not Sun & Mon;
Wed & Sat 2.30pm). £14.50–£29. JB Priestley’s family saga. See preview, page 96.
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The one-woman play is compiled from Corrie’s journal entries, edited for the stage by actor Alan Rickman and Guardian deputy editor Katharine Viner. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Most Favoured Tue 5–Sat 9 Mar, 1pm. £12. See Òran Mór, Glasgow. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Clean Tue 12–Sat 16 Mar, 1pm. £12. See Òran Mór, Glasgow.
✽ White Rose Wed 13–Fri 15 Mar, 7.30pm. Sat 16 Mar, 2.30pm &
7.30pm. £15.50 (£6–£11.50). See Tron Theatre, Glasgow. What Are They Like? Thu 14 & Fri 15 Mar, 7pm. Sat 16 Mar, 4.30pm & 7pm. £12. The Lyceum Youth Theatre’s play about teenhood.
■ VICTORIA PARK HOTEL 221 Ferry Road Dark Matter Thu 28 Feb–Sat 2 Mar, 7.30pm & 8.30pm. £10. Outdoor performances that tells a story of the shadows that lurk in our subconscious.
OUTSIDE THE CITIES
■ BRUNTON THEATRE Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. The Nutcracker Thu 21 Feb, 7.30pm. £13 (£10). The story of Clara and her adventures with the magical Nutcracker doll. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Sat 23 Feb, 7pm. £11.50 (£9.50; children £6.50). Sell a Door Theatre Company take on Shakespeare’s popular comedy. Tavaziva Dance: Greed Thu 28 Feb, 7.30pm. £11 (£9; under 18s £6.50). Hard hitting performance tackling one of the Seven Deadly Sins. My Name Is Rachel Corrie Fri 1 Mar, 7.30pm. £11.50 (£9.50; children £6.50). See Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. White Rose Wed 6 & Thu 7 Mar, 7.30pm. £11.50 (£9.50; under 18s £6.50). See Tron Theatre, Glasgow. Romeo and Juliet Wed 13 Mar, 7.30pm. £14 (£12). Shakespeare’s classic love story. ■ DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 152 Nethergate, Dundee, 01382 909900. National Theatre Live: People Thu 21 Mar, 7pm. See Cameo, Edinburgh.
■ DUNDEE REP Tay Square, Dundee, 01382 223530. Scottish Dance Theatre: Second Coming and Winter, Again Thu 21–Sat 23 Feb, 8pm. £16 (£13; children £6). See Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. Kanjoos: The Miser Tue 26 Feb–Sat 2 Mar, 7.30pm (Thu & Sat 2.30pm). £12–£16 (£10–£14). Moliere’s The Miser is translated from 17th century France to modern-day India. My Name Is Rachel Corrie Tue 5 & Wed 6 Mar, 7.30pm. £15 (£12). See Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh. Murder, Marple and Me Sat 9 Mar, 7.30pm. £12 (£10). Learn the story behind the story of Miss Marple.
✽ Time and the Conways Wed 13–Sat 30 Mar, 7.30pm (Thu & Sat 2.30pm). £12–£19 (£10–£14; children £6). See Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh.
■ MACROBERT University of Stirling, Stirling, 01786 466666. Let’s Dance Festival Wed 20–Sat 23 Mar. See Kids listings. FREE Enso: Dance Performance by LaNua Wed 20 Mar. See Kids listings. ■ PERTH CONCERT HALL Mill Street, Perth, 01738 621031. Brendan Cole: Licence to Thrill Tue 26 Feb, 7.30pm. £28–£33. See King’s Theatre, Glasgow. Beyond the Barricade Wed 27 Feb, 7.30pm. £20 (£18). See Theatre Royal, Glasgow.
PREVIEW PHYSICAL COMEDY A MAN CAME TO A WOMAN Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Fri 15–Sat 23 Mar
Sex, when you get to a certain age, becomes problematic. Not the act itself, you understand, but its initiation: all those courting rituals can seem so dreadfully tedious. At least they are in Simon Zlotnikov’s USSR-set A Man Came to a Woman, a surreal farce which is making its English language premier at the Tron this month as part of the Glasgow Comedy Festival. The play was banned by the Soviets for its portrayal of dysfunctional families and cramped apartments where life is carried out to the soundtrack of next-door’s lives. For exactly those reasons it became a hit in post-Soviet Russia – running for over 15 years in Moscow. Staging it in Glasgow is the fulfilment of a long-held desire of
Russian-born kinetic art specialists Sharmanka to get a Scots-based company working with a Russian director on a Russian play. ‘On that basis I did a research trip to St Petersburg to have a look at some Russian theatre,’ says Garry Robson, artistic director of co-producers Fittings, who had worked with Sharmanka and will be playing the male character in the two-hander. ‘I was particularly interested in the way professional disabled performers work in Russia. To discover that there aren’t any, basically. It is not a concept which is understood. Disabled people have a much more passive role: they are cared for rather than putting anything into society.’ Now, by adding Robson’s own disability into the mix, the company are adding another level of meaning to the text of this highly physical piece. And one which is transferring to St Petersburg after Glasgow. (Thom Dibdin)
✽ Takin’ Over the Asylum Wed 13 Mar-Sat 6 Apr, 7.45pm (Not Sun & Mon; Wed & Sat 2.30pm). £14.50–29. See Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
■ SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 43–45 High Street, 556 9579. Passing Through Thu 14–Sat 16 Mar, 8pm. £10 (£8). Alistair Rutherford’s new romantic comedy explores the magical tryst between conjurer Tommy and jaded Alice.
■ SUMMERHALL 1 Summerhall, 0845 874 3001. Some Small Love Story and
Beulah Thu 28 Feb–Sat 2 Mar, 8–9pm. £10. A theatrical double bill from Alexander Wright. Anatomy Fri 8 Mar, 8–11pm. £6. Variety night with a focus on risk-taking.
■ TRAVERSE THEATRE Cambridge Street, 228 1404. Found at Sea Thu 21–Sat 23 Feb, 8pm. £11.50 (£6). Mini Odyssey based on a series of poems by Andrew Greig.
✽ A Play, A Pie & A Pint: A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity Tue 26 Feb–Sat 2 Mar, 1pm. £12. See Òran Mór, Glasgow. My Name Is Rachel Corrie Sat 2 Mar, 7.30pm. £11.50 (children £6).