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Events are listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Submit listings at least 14 days before publication to theatre@list.co.uk. Listings are compiled by Murray Robertson. ✽ Indicates Hitlist entry GLASGOW
■ LA BODEGA TAPAS BAR 1120 South Street, 581 3401. Rapido Mariachi Sat 20 Jul, 8.30pm. £11 (£8 in advance until Jul 18). An evening with Scotland’s hottest Mexican fiesta outfit with heart-tugging ballads and big sombreros. ■ BOTECO DO BRASIL 62 Trongate, 07772 847311. FREE Woman in Tutti Frutti Hat Sat 27 Jul, 8pm. Carmen Miranda cabaret night celebrating the life of the 1940s Brazilian icon, with live jazz and samba music, and screenings of her films. Join in and meet the woman in the tutti frutti hat. Part of Merchant City Festival.
■ THE BRIGGAIT 141 Bridgegate, 553 5890.
✽Surge 2013 Mon 22–Sun 28 Jul, times vary. Prices vary (free–£15).
Conflux’s festival of street arts, physical theatre and circus showcases new work from Scottish and international companies and artists, staged in venues and streets around the city.
■ BRITANNIA PANOPTICON MUSIC HALL 113–117 Trongate, 553 0840. FREE Burlesque @ The Britannia Fri 26 Jul, 7.30pm. Be prepared for the saucy, the sexy and the downright silly as present and past students of the Academy of Burlesque and Cabaret bring burlesque back to its spiritual Scottish home: The Britannia Panopticon. A celebration of all that is burlesque, with a tassel-twirl, wink, nudge and perfect pout, these burlesquers will get you in the mood for the weekend with a bawdy bump in a showcase that honours the historic building’s burlesque tradition. Ages 18+. Part of Merchant City Festival. FREE Music Hall Memories Sat 27 Jul–Sun 7 Aug (Sat & Sun only), 1pm & 3pm. Pay to get out. Relive the Music Hall days with this variety show. And if you think entertainment in Granny and Grandad’s time was all prim and proper, you might get a surprise from the saucy singers, comics, jugglers, dancers and magicians strutting their stuff here in one of the world’s oldest intact music halls, where Stan Laurel made his stage debut in 1906. ■ COTTIERS KELVINBRIDGE 420 Great Western Road, 357 5825. Tenement Twelve Sun 28 Jul, 7pm. £10. A new Scottish play by Liam Lambie set in 50s Glasgow about the life of a desperate mother and how far she’ll go to support her son.
■ KING’S THEATRE 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. The Rocky Horror Show Tue 6–Sat 10 Aug, 5.30pm & 8.30pm (Tue & Thu 8pm only). £10–£20. Camp and outrageous comedy horror classic based on Richard O’Brien’s cult favourite musical, here directed by Christopher Luscombe on its 40th anniversary tour.
✽9 to 5: The Musical Tue 13–Sat 17 Aug, 2.30pm & 7.30pm (Tue 8pm only; Thu & Fri 7.30pm only). £15–£45. Three office workers get their own back on their lying bigot of a boss and conspire to take over the company, all while singing along to 18 classic Dolly Parton numbers. Based on the classic 1980 comedy film. Dreamboats and Petticoats Mon 19–Sat 24 Aug, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm also). £10–£35. Jukebox musical
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Bar, witness the surreal lives of some very irregular regulars who may try to involve you in their unruly dramas. Part of Merchant City Festival. Everyday Vengeance Thu 25–Sun 28 Jul, 7pm. £10 (£7.50). Al Seed explores justice in its most tantalising form: vengeance. Blending highly physicalised storytelling with fantastical visual imagery, this vicious comic tale follows a chain of characters, each touched in some way by the compulsion to avenge. Part of Surge festival.
✽How A Man Crumbled Thu 25–Sun 28 Jul, 8.30pm. £10 (£7.50).
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS GOT HER HEAD CHOPPED OFF Returning to the Tron for the 37th incarnation of its Summer Festival, Mary, Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off sees the Scottish Youth Theatre follow the life and times of our ill-fated 16th century monarch, as she struggles to take the reins and rule a country she barely knows. Written by The Scots Makar and Scottish Youth Theatre patron Liz Lochhead, the performance is part of a summer series of productions exploring the theme of 2014’s Scottish referendum. (Nina Glencross) ■ Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Tue 6 Aug–Sat 10 Aug.
Clout Theatre invites you to dive head first into the absurd world of the Russian poet and false moustache wearer, Daniil Kharms. Three scabrous storytellers let narrative escape them as comic vignettes, metaphysical ponderings and bouts of senseless violence provide constant distraction. Expressionist silent film meets grotesque slapstick in a world where clocks have no hands and a cucumber can kill a man. Part of Surge festival. Yarla and the Winter Wood Sat 27 Jul, 11.15am & 1.30pm. £5. Follow Yarla on a magical woodland journey that will arouse the senses. Filled with music, song and animation, Yarla and the Winter Wood is a multi-sensory story aimed at 0–4 years, but for children and adults alike. Part of Merchant City Festival.
✽Mary, Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off Tue 6–Sat 10 Aug, 7.30pm (Sat 2pm also). £10 (£6; family £26). Scottish Youth Theatre present Liz Lochhead’s depiction of a contemporary, gutsy and poetic voice of Mary, Queen of Scots. See preview, left.
based on the songs of Roy Orbison, the Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury and others. ■ MERCHANT SQUARE 71–73 Albion Street, 552 5908. FREE Get Scotland Dancing Community Dance Stage Sat 27 & Sun 28 Jul, 1pm. Dance Juke Box showcases a selection of favourite dance and music styles from around the world and across the decades. Performances by Goldfish (Indepen- dance), Bollywood! (Desi Bravehearts), Together Alone (Dance House), Days of Fire (Barrowland Ballet Youth Co) and Dance House Community Company. Audience participation is encouraged but not essential. Part of Merchant City Festival.
■ OFFSHORE 3/5 Gibson Street, offshorecoffee.co.uk Offshore Platform Sat 13 Jul–Sat 17 Aug (Sat only), 7pm. £3. Each week Attune Theatre produces a new piece of writing or offers a fresh take on an existing piece, then mounts the production with the help of guest artists. Tickets available on the door.
■ ÒRAN MÓR 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. ✽Up4aMeet? Fri 9 & Sat 10 Aug, 5.45pm & 8pm. £16. Love in the 21st century is a complicated affair, particularly if you’re gay and you’re searching for love via an app on your phone. Bold and brassy musical about a new app for cruising LGBT folks (so think Grindr, but . . . you know . . . not Grindr) which leads a couple of flatmates into a spot of bother. Starring X Factor’s Lloyd Daniels and Big Brother’s Nikki Grahame. Also showing at Electric Circus, Edinburgh, Tue 6–Thu 8 Aug, see list.co.uk for full festival listings.
■ PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Please Stay Mon 29–Wed 31 Jul, 7.30pm. £13–£18. Musical comedy set in the Locarno Dance Hall in Glasgow in the early 60s, starring Chris McClure. Peter Powers Fri 9–Sat 24 Aug, midnight & 7.30pm (Fri & Sat only). £12.50–£16 (family £7.50 per person Fri
only). Hypnotist act who has been called ‘the Ali G of stage hypnosis’. Please note the Fri show is a ‘Family Fun Night’, Sat 7.30pm show is ‘Anything Goes’ (safe for teens) and the Sat ‘Midnight Madness’ is over 18s only. ■ PEOPLE’S PALACE & WINTER GARDENS Glasgow Green, 276 0788. FREE Sprawl Sat 27 & Sun 28 Jul, 1.30pm, 3pm & 4.30pm. This floor-based dance theatre piece explores themes of expansion; bringing two people together as they play in and around the space, building acrobatic structures with the help of many many blocks. You can even try out the blocks yourself and build your own Sprawl set at the end of the performance. Part of Merchant City Festival.
■ SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street, 552 3988. Family Storytime: How the Whale Got His Throat Sun 28 Jul, 11am, 1pm & 3pm. £5. Family Storytime present one of Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories about a greedy whale who tries to eat every fish in the ocean. Part of Merchant City Festival.
■ SECC Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. Strictly Confidential Sun 21 Jul, 3pm. £20–£42. Craig Revel Horwood’s new show takes a behind-the-scenes look at the stars of Strictly Come Dancing, told through music, song and stunning dance routines. Starring Lisa Riley, Artem Chigvintsev, Natalie Lowe and Ian Waite.
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Cannibal Women of Mars Thu 11–Sat 20 Jul (not Sun & Mon), 7.45pm. £8–£16. Featuring songs by Belle and Sebastian’s Mick Cooke, this romantic musical sees star-crossed lovers thrown together by fate. Backlanes Wed 24 Jul, 7.30pm, 8.30pm & 9.30pm. £4. Through masks, dance and physical theatre, Backlanes tells everyday stories of Glasgow and some of its more unusual characters. In the ambient surroundings of Tron’s Vic
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■ THE BRUNTON Ladywell Way, Musselburgh, 665 2240. An Evening of Dirty Dancing Fri 9 Aug, 7.30pm. £16 (£14). A foot-stomping tribute to a classic movie and its much- loved soundtrack, with a dazzling cast of West End performers. Originally directed by Matt Firth (RSC) with choreography by Leanne Harwood (Mamma Mia!, Footloose), featuring a cast of West End performers. Sing along to all the hits including ‘She’s Like the Wind’, ‘Hungry Eyes’ and the timeless, Oscar-winning ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’. ■ CHURCH HILL THEATRE 33a Morningside Road, 447 7597. Dunedin International Folk Dance Festival Performance Fri 26 Jul, 7.30pm. £8–£11. Folk dance performance from Dunedin Dancers and New Scotland, featuring country dance, ceilidh, highland and hard shoe step. Part of Dunedin International Folk Dance Festival.
■ CORN EXCHANGE 11 New Market Road, 477 3500. Bolli and Burlesque Sat 20 Jul, 7.30pm. £20. An evening of rhinestones, high-kicks and cabaret. Hosted by Gypsy Charm and featuring many special guests. ■ THE EDINBURGH PLAYHOUSE 18–22 Greenside Place, 0844 871 3014. Dreamboats and Petticoats Thu 11–Sat 13 Jul, 7.30pm (Sat 2.30pm also). £10–£35. Jukebox musical based on the songs of Roy Orbison, the Shadows, Eddie Cochran, Billy Fury and others.
■ EDINBURGH FESTIVAL THEATRE 13–29 Nicolson Street, 529 6000. Strictly Confidential Tue 16–Thu 18 Jul, 7.30pm (Wed 2.30pm also). £20–£45. See SECC, Glasgow. ■ GRASSMARKET Grassmarket, 07831 857017. FREE Dunedin International Folk Dance Festival Performance Mon 22 Jul, 3pm. See Church Hill Theatre, Edinburgh.
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