FESTIVAL THEATRE | Day Planner
Theatre fans can get their fix all day long without even taking a dramatic pause. Gareth K Vile maps out your itinerary so you don’t have to 10AM
The Maids Start the day with Genet’s BDSM gender-switch melodrama, now switched back again. theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, 510 2384, 7–22 Aug (not 9, 16), 10.10am, £8 (£5).
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Consumption A physical and humorous drama about how we devour each other emotionally and literally without even knowing it. theSpace on the Mile, 510 2382, 10–28 Aug (not 16, 23), 11.05am & 12.05pm, £9 (£5). Previews 7 & 8 Aug, £9 (£5). Urinetown Glasgow’s Royal Conservatoire presents a musical piss- take of control and capitalism. Assembly Hall, 623 3030, 8–31 Aug (not 17, 24), 11.45am, £12–£13 (£10–£11). Previews 6 & 7 Aug, £10.
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Islands Couple meltdown melodrama from a rising young company. Underbelly Cowgate, 0844 545 8252, 8–30 Aug (not 18), 12.10pm, £9.50–£10.50 (£8.50–£9.50). Previews 6 & 7 Aug, £6. Fausted Ecologically aware update of the old chestnut about souls, devils and the quest for knowledge. C Venue, 0845 260 1234, 9–15 Aug, 12.55pm, £9.50– £10.50 (£7.50–£8.50) (£5.50–£6.50).
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Spectretown Matt Lenton (Vanishing Point) directs this new play that begins with a tape and dives back into the past through musical memories. Assembly Hall, 623 3030, 8–31 Aug (not 12, 17, 24), 1.30pm, £12–£14. Previews 6 & 7 Aug, £8. Boris: World King See the satire before Boris decides that this is within his grasp, and we bow to our mop- topped overlord. Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 8–31 Aug (not 19), 1.45pm, £8–£10.50 (£7–£9.50). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6. 2PM
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience Fringe perennial promises food but delivers the authentic taste of that terrible seaside holiday. B’est Restaurant, 0845 1544 145, 6–31 Aug (not 11, 18, 25), 2pm, £45–£49.50. Miss Sarah A missing woman at a festival sparks the mystery in this brand-new script from Cicada Studios. ZOO, 662 6892, 9–31 Aug (not 17, 24), 2.50pm, £9 (£8). Previews 7 & 8 Aug, £6.
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This Will End Badly Four short plays that jump in on the masculine crisis, from the author of last year’s surprisingly charming Awkward Conversations with Animals I’ve Fucked. Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 8–31 Aug (not 18, 25), 3.20pm, £8.50–£10.50 (£7.50–£9.50). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6. Electric Dreams Are we a nation in shock? London company Dumbshow are inspired by Naomi Klein’s political warning. Pleasance Dome, 556 6550, 8–30 Aug (not 17, 24), 3.50pm, £9–£11 (£8–£10). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6. 94 THE LIST FESTIVAL 6–13 Aug 2015
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ANTIGONE Oscar-winning French film star Juliette Binoche appears in Ivo van Hove’s production of Antigone at the King’s Theatre this month, part of the Edinburgh International Festival. The English Patient actress plays the title character in Sophocles’ Greek tragedy against Patrick O’Kane as Kreon, Antigone’s uncle. The stripped-back, contemporary adaptation of the classic tale played a run at London’s Barbican and toured Europe earlier in the year, before making its way to Edinburgh. See interview at list.co.uk/festival ■ King’s Theatre, 473 2000, 8–22 Aug (not 10, 17), 7.30pm, £17–£48 (£8.50–£24). Preview 7 Aug, £15–£44 (£7.50–£22).
4PM I Am Not Myself These Days Based on a true memoir, one man remembers his double life in 1990s New York: ad man by day and drag queen by night. Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 8–30 Aug (not 17, 24), 4.15pm, £8.50–£11 (£7.50–£10). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6. 10x10x10 Ten ten-minute-long theatrical monologues, written by ten comedians and performed by ten different comedians, to celebrate ten years of the award-winning Comedians’ Theatre Company. Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 8–30 Aug, 4.30pm, £9–£12 (£7–£10). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6.
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Citizen Puppet ‘A sort of verbatim, true-crime, murder mystery, puppet docudrama.’ Pleasance Courtyard, 556 6550, 8–30 Aug (not 17), 5pm, £9.50–£12 (£8.50–£10). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6. Building God Poet David Lee Morgan calls for a revolution, inspired by science, Marxism and the dream of human potential. Banshee Labyrinth, 226 0000, 7–31 Aug (not 12, 19, 26), 5.10pm, free. Muse The real woman behind Cabaret’s Sally Bowles, who turns out to be more than a sexy voice and a good pair of legs. SpaceTriplex, 510 2395, 10–29 Aug (not 16, 23), 5.15pm, £8–£10 (£7–£8).
6PM Trigger Happy! Dandy Darkly simultaneously scares and arouses with
his latest satirical cabaret – political and sensual somehow. CC Blooms, 226 0000, 8–30 Aug (not 19), 6.45pm, free. The Year of the Hare Finnish existential detective drama based on a classic novel that deals with man’s battle with nature. Pleasance Dome, 556 6550, 8–31 Aug (not 17, 24), 6.45pm, £8–£10 (£7–£9). Previews 5–7 Aug, £6. 7PM
Baba Brinkman’s Rap Guide to Climate Chaos The Canadian rapper lays down the truth about the weather and its implications for human survival. Gilded Balloon, 622 6552, 8–31 Aug (not 18), 7pm, £10–£12 (£8–£10). Previews 5–7 Aug, £7. Festivus One night at the hottest new music festival in the country, Festivus explores the emotional extremes of this hedonistic environment. C Venue, 0845 260 1234, 5–31 Aug (not 17), 7.30pm, £8.50–£10.50 (£6.50–£8.50). 8PM
Alchemy of the Piano Will Pickvance gets improvisational on his favourite instrument – expect magical moments of musical mayhem. Summerhall, 560 1581, 8–30 Aug (not 17, 24), 8.20pm, £12 (£8) (£30 F). Preview 7 Aug, £8. On Track One woman, one treadmill: provocative performance from Belgium presents autobiography both mental and physical. Summerhall, 560 1581, 7–30 Aug (not 9, 10, 13, 16, 17, 20, 23, 24, 27), 8.30pm, £10 (£8).
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The Temptation of St. Anthony Music and movement explore the religious mania that saw one 4th-century saint decide to spend time alone, with his demons. Summerhall, 560 1581, 16–30 Aug (not 24), 9.15pm, £12 (£9) (£32 F). Previews 13–15 Aug, £7. A Brief History of Evil Scotland’s company of wolves give a big idea the physical theatre treatment. Summerhall, 560 1581, 7–11 Aug, 9.50pm, £10 (£9) (£38 F). 10PM
Blake Remixed Great British mystic is redesigned by Christian rapper Testament. Underbelly Cowgate, 0844 545 8252, 8–29 Aug (not 19), 10.15pm, £9–£10 (£8–£9). Previews 6 & 7 Aug, £6. Jethro Compton’s Frontier Trilogy: The Rattlesnake’s Kiss Hidden deep in the dust of the American West, the outlaw comes face to face with the lawman in search of justice. C nova, 0845 260 1234, 5–31 Aug, 10.30pm, £11.50–£13.50 (£9.50–£11.50).
11PM Weekend Rockstars What happens when our rocks start to fail us? What do we do when our stars don’t guide us where we thought they would? Underbelly Cowgate, 0844 545 8252, 8–30 Aug (not 17), 11.10pm, £9–£10 (£8–£9). Previews 6 & 7 Aug, £6.