The REALIST
4 KIDS Edinburgh International Children’s Festival
Noel Jordan has laid on another exciting and very international programme for Children’s Festival audiences with shows such as Baba Yaga (pictured), Gretel and Hansel and Expedition Peter Pan. See feature, page 33. Various venues, Edinburgh, Sat 26 May–Sun 3 Jun.
5 AROUND TOWN / THEATRE Southside Fringe
6 VISUAL ART Dundee Design Festival
A 17-day independent fringe festival with music, comedy, burlesque, cabaret, art and theatre events happening all over Glasgow’s Southside. Bruce Morton (pictured) will be back with his Greater Shawlands Republic business. See Highlights, page 101. Various venues, Glasgow, Fri 11–Sun 27 May. With the V&A finally opening later this year, Dundee is set to find itself on the cultural map as never before. Ahead of that epochal event, the Dundee Design Festival will once again celebrate the city’s status as Britain’s only UNESCO City of Design. West Ward Works, Dundee, Thu 24–Tue 29 May.
7 THEATRE Wicked
8 MUSIC Ezra Furman
9 FILM Lean on Pete
The Playhouse turns a distinct shade of green as one of the top musicals of modern times returns to the capital, reimagining once again Frank L Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. See Highlights, page 101. Edinburgh Playhouse, Tue 8 May–Sat 9 Jun. Dubbing his latest album Transangelic Exodus as ‘a personal companion for a paranoid road trip’, you, his fans, will certainly want to hop on board such a fantastical voyage. See Highlights, page 91. O2 ABC, Glasgow, Mon 28 May.
Adapted from the cult novel by Willy Vlautin, this is another tale of one boy and his horse. Directed by Andrew 45 Years Haigh, it also features Chloë Sevigny and Steve Buscemi. See feature, page 67 and review, page 70. General release from Fri 4 May.
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CHOSEN BY CHOREOGRAPHER & DIRECTOR JANICE PARKER Take Me Somewhere
May is the month of lots of Monday holidays (if you have a ‘proper’ job that is): International Workers Day, Beltane and the beginning of summer. It’s a month full of promise. I’m spending mine mainly in rehearsals so will be inside, often in the dark, as the longer days return. Luckily, I love the dark and plan to spend my free time in commune with the moon as part of Take Me Somewhere, Glasgow’s brilliant festival of contemporary performance. Luke Jerram’s ‘Museum of The Moon’ is an exact replica of the moon showing its every crevice and crater. At seven metres in diameter, the artwork is only half a million times smaller than the actual moon. So as the sun returns, I hope to sit with and lie under the moon, life’s constant companion in the sky, to contemplate, wonder and dream for as long as I possibly can. Janice Parker is co-director of The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other at Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 31 May–Sat 2 Jun; Take Me Somewhere, various venues, Glasgow, Wed 16 May–Mon 4 Jun. See preview, page 97.
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