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DANCE Scottish Ballet: The Crucible with Ten Poems
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MUSIC Prehistoric Friends
A many-layered performance, this one, as Arthur Miller’s seminal communist witch-hunt allegory is adapted and combined with the highly strung paranoiac soundtracks of Psycho and Vertigo. See feature, page 29. Theatre Royal, Glasgow, Thu 25–Sat 27 Sep; Edinburgh Festival Theatre, Fri 3 & Sat 4 Oct. We’re proud to curate some of today’s finest musical talent at the Pleasance Sessions. Support for Prehistoric Friends come from Two Wings and Ubre Blanca, plus there’s the bonus of TYCI DJs and visuals by Adventures in Light. See feature, page 21. The Pleasance, Edinburgh, Thu 16 Oct.
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FILM 20,000 Days on Earth
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VISUAL ART Duncan Campbell
Nick Cave takes a typically leftfield approach to the rockumentary with this philosophical, semi-fictional examination of the creative process, directed by acclaimed visual artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. See review, page 59. Selected release from Fri 19 Sep. Having garnered a Turner nomination for his work at the 2013 Venice Biennale, video artist Campbell returns home to showcase that work and raise questions about the objectification of art. See preview, page 95. The Common Guild, Glasgow, Sat 20 Sep–25 Oct.
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COMEDY Still Game
Following years of success via BBC Scotland sitcoms, Jack, Victor and the rest of the Craiglang crew are returning to their roots on the live stage – one of Scotland’s largest, in fact. See First & Last, page 136. SSE Hydro, Glasgow, Fri 19 Sep– Fri 10 Oct.
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The Walking Dead The hit zombie drama series, adapted from a graphic novel series of the same name, enters its fifth season with no signs of slowing down. Excitingly, a spin-off ‘companion show’ pilot is due to start filming soon. See feature, page 32. Fox, Mon 13 Oct, 10pm.
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CHOSEN BY CARLY SHEARER OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY
Hollie McNish I think Hollie McNish is AH-MAZ-ING! Actually, I think anyone who can stand up at a mic and read out their personal thoughts in the form of poems is fabulous. So I am pretty appreciative of any performance poetry / spoken word kind of thing, but that does not diminish that Hollie is one of my absolute favourites. Everything she writes is truthful, relevant, moving and funny, so her live show at Òran Mór is the one event in the next month that I am most looking forward to. I invited one of my friends to go to this with me – I thought the promise
of poems about sex, plus a few beers, might win her over – but she claims not to be a ‘performance poetry kind of person’. I wish she would give it a chance: Hollie might just have changed her mind. Hollie McNish, Òran Mór, Glasgow, Sat 4 Oct, part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival; see feature, page 25. Carly Shearer is part of the team behind Portrait Detectives at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, Sun 12 Oct. 18 Sep–16 Oct 2014 THE LIST 5