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into the 50s with Harlequin’s production of the musical mega hit. ■ GLASGOW ROYAL CONCERT HALL 2 Sauchiehall Street, 353 8000. Brendan Cole: Licence to Thrill Fri 14 Mar, 7.30pm. £32–£36. Dancer Brendan Cole performs his new show with a company of 20 musicians and dancers.
■ KING’S THEATRE 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. Happy Days: A New Musical Mon 24 Feb–Sat 1 Mar, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm also). £14–£37. New show based on the madly popular TV programme and written by its creator Garry Marshall.
✽ Swan Lake Tue 18–Sat 22 Feb 7.30pm (Thu & Sat 2.30pm also). £15–£43.50 Matthew Bourne’s iconic production in which the traditional female corps de ballet is replaced with a menacing male ensemble. The Play That Goes Wrong Mon 10–Sat 15 Mar, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm also). £10–£29.50. Play-within- a-play about an amateur dramatic society putting on a murder mystery production. See preview, page 89. Hot Flush! Sun 16 Mar, 7.30pm. £15–£38. Lesley Joseph stars in the one and only menopause musical. The Perfect Murder Tue 18–Sat 22 Mar, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat 2.30pm also). £10–£44.50. Adaptation of the best- selling crime novel telling the story of Victor Smiley and his wife Joan.
■ THE OLD HAIRDRESSERS Opposite Stereo, Renfield Lane, 222 2254. Marlon and Michael Wed 19 Mar, 9.45pm. £7. Joe Hullait and Ross Main’s new play – based on true events – about Marlon Brando, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor fleeing from New York in a rental car on the morning of 9/11. Part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival.
■ ÒRAN MÓR 731–735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. A Bottle of Wine & Patsy Cline Thu 20–Sun 23 Feb, 7.45pm. £18. Tribute to the country singer, starring Gail Watson, written and directed by Morag Fullarton (behind the recent stage adaptation of Casablanca). A Play, a Pie and a Pint: Save The Lap Dance For Me Mon 24 Feb–Sat 1 Mar, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Play inspired by the Scottish Executive’s enquiry into how to best protect the rights of lap dancers. A Play, a Pie and a Pint: The Friends of Miss Dorian Gray Mon 3–Sat 8 Mar, 1pm. £8–12.50. Marcella Evaristi’s retelling of Oscar Wilde’s story where two middle-aged women puzzle over the youthfulness of their friend, Miss Dorian Gray. A Play, a Pie and a Pint: Auntie Agatha Comes To Tea Mon 17–Sat 22 Mar, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Two brothers see very little of their elderly aunt. But when their business goes down the pan they decide to see her in a quick fix to get rich.
■ PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Peter Powers Thu 20 Feb–Sat 8 Mar, 7.30pm (Sat midnight also). £12.50–£16. Hypnotist act from Powers, 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. Gordon Smith: Beyond Belief Thu 6 Mar, 7.30pm. £20. Medium Gordon travels the world claiming to connect people with their departed loved ones. The Celts in Seville Wed 19 Mar– Sat 12 Apr, 7.30pm (Sat 2pm also; not Sun–Tue). £19–£22.50 (£18–£19). The 92 THE LIST 20 Feb–20 Mar 2014
CONTEMPORARY DANCE GLORY Tramway, Glasgow Wed 5–Mon 10 Mar
Janice Parker delights in blurring the boundaries between different forms. Her Private Dancer introduced an audience to a house filled with performers: for Glory, a major part of Glasgow’s Commonwealth Games cultural programme, she arrived at Tramway with a new vision.
‘I’m somebody who is always interested in the context in which the work is happening,’ Parker says. ‘Private Dancer had a house, and I started to think about the village that would be built here for the athletes. I wondered what a performers’ village would look like. And the thing that came to me was a village without walls.’
Unsurprisingly, her response has been to the place where the performance will take place, with Tramway’s impressive main space influencing her direction. ‘I love that main space in Tramway: many of us have seen great works there, so it holds huge memories. I was really excited about being in it. But what I am really interested in is immersion in movement, and being able to see the body close up: Tramway allows you to see the body far away. So the audience will be sitting around the edge, like in an arena.’
The power of Parker’s choreography is always enhanced by her use of the environment: her frequent collaborator Layzell has designed the installation in response to Tramway, while she explores some of the themes suggested by parallels between sport and performance.
‘It’s one big house, that you can dance within and still get a feeling of home. It’s not about the Commonwealth Games, in one sense, but it is that journey of – how did we all come here to this space, at this time? We are all under the same roof.’ (Gareth K Vile)
story of a typical Celtic family as their heroes go all the way to the UEFA Cup final in Seville, written by Tony Roper. ■ PLATFORM The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696. Jawtanic! Mon 24 Feb. See Kids listings. The Past Inside the Present Mon 10 Mar, 1.30pm & 7pm. £3.50. Film and dance theatre production based on experiences of investigating the nature of memory. The Secret Life of Suitcases Sat 15 Mar. See Kids listings.
■ ROYAL CONSERVATOIRE OF SCOTLAND 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Legally Blonde The Musical Tue 18–Fri 21 Mar, 7.30pm (Wed & Fri 2pm also). £16–£20. The 2001 Reese Witherspoon film takes to the stage.
■ SCOTTISH MASK AND PUPPET CENTRE 8–10 Balcarres Avenue, Kelvindale, 339
6185. The Three Little Pigs Sun 23 Feb, 1pm. £5.95 (children £5.75). A handful of tales involving a handful of characters, all told via puppetry. The Singing Ringing Tree Sat 1 Mar, 2pm. £5.95 (children £5.75). Glove puppet tale of a prince and his quest for the magic tree that will win the heart of a beautiful but vain princess. Ages 3+. Pinocchio Sun 16 Mar. See Kids listings. ■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. In May Sat 15 Mar, 7.30pm. £14 (£10). A series of letters from a son to a father, each set to music composed by Neil Hannon and performed by a live string ensemble, charting the final months of a man in the advanced stages of cancer. See preview, page 88. Behaviour.
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. This Wide Night Thu 20 Feb–Sat 15 Mar, 7.45pm (Sat 2.30pm also; not Sun & Mon). Chloe Moss’s drama features
two women, recently released from long prison sentences, struggling to adjust to freedom. Directed by David Greig. Early Doors Fri 28 Feb & Sat 1 Mar, 8.30pm. £10. Immersive theatre from Not Too Tame. Wendy Hoose Fri 7–Sat 15 Mar, 8pm. £10 (£7.50). Johnny McKnight’s play about two 20-somethings who are looking for love in all the wrong places. See preview, page 55. Jezebel Tue 18–Sat 22 Mar, 8pm. £10 (£7.50). Rough Magic present Mark Cantan’s clever comedy about a couple who risk their relationship to spice up their sex life, proving that two’s company, but three’s a crowd. ■ THE VALE 5 Dundas Street, 332 4928. Weegies Have Stolen the One O’Clock Gun Thu 13–Sat 22 Mar, 7.30pm (Thu–Sat only; Sat 3pm also). £4–£5. The return of Robin Cairns’ popular character Morningside Malcolm. Glasgow International Comedy Festival.