MAYFEST SPECIAL
King‘s Theatre. 7.30p . Tickets: £5. £4. £3.
See Mon 18.
o The Goroals Story Citizens' Theatre. 7.30pm. £3 (£1).
Sec Fri 15.
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. See Tue 19.
O Macbeth Drama Centre. 7.30pm. Sec Tue 19.
0 It's Called the Sugar Plum Drama Centre. 10.30pm. See Tue 19.
CABARET/FOLK/ JAZZ
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. See Tue 19.
o The Alexander Sisters and The Sirens Tron Theatre Box Office: 041 552 4267/8. 11pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. The Alexanders are a comedy cabaret routine. while the Sirens are beautiful a cappella songstresses.
o Latelest Moir Hall. Tickets: 041 552 5691. £3.50. Non-stop late-night cabaret from 1()pm. Gavin Meechie (aka Peter Capaldi); Scottish rock singer Edna Reader. who has sung with the Eurythmics and Alison Moyet. and Rollin' Joe (rock ’n‘ roll pianist) with the Rockette jivers (original 1950s' jivers).
0 Live Entertainment Harry‘s Diner. 76 Sauchiehall Street.
DANCE
0 Scottish Dance Theatre: Triple Bill Rankine Hall. 8pm. Tickets: £4.£1.50. See Tue 19.
KIDS
o The Pied Piper Barrowfield Primary. 2pm. Free. A rock opera for children by children. written by Ramon Roper especially for the Glasgow Arts Centre.
WORKSHOPS
o The Music Theatre Workshop Maryhill Arts Centre. 10.30am—5pm. See Mon 18.
COMMUNITY
O Smike Carnwadric Community Centre. 7.30pm. See Sun 17.A
rock/pop musical based on
Dickens‘ Nicholas Nickelby. in which a school musical suddenly presents the school in a rather different light. Presented by Bellarmine Arts Centre.
0 Shanghaied Maryhill Burgh Hall. 7.30pm.
Clydebank Youth Theatre
in Liz Lochhcad‘s children‘s play about three kids evacuated from Clydebank before the
$3.8 T‘STIJET'I-ik war. See also 20 and 22 May.
0 Tollcross Tanzi Drumchapel Community Centre. 8pm. See Fri 15. o The Merry Mac Fun Show Gallowgate Tenants’ Hall. 7.30pm. See Sat 16. o Pandemonium Puppets GeoffShaw Centre 10am. See Fri 15.
o Laughterlrom the Other Side St Andrews I ligh Sehoolme. See Tue 19. o The Steamie Kinning Park Neighbourhood Centre. 7.30pm. See Fri 15.
TALKS
a Six at One and Five olthe Other: Part Two ‘Five' Third Eye Centre. 7.30pm. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50.
0 Twentieth Century Scottish Classics: Edwin Morgan Book Trust. 15a Lynedoch Street. 041 332 0391. 7.30pm.
THURSDAY 21
THEATRE
0 My Sister in this House Mitchell Theatre. 7.30pm. Tickets: £4.50. £1.50. See Tue 19.
o The Hypochondriak King‘s Theatre. 7.30pm. Tickets: £5. £4. £3.
See Mon 18.
o The Gorbals Story Citizens‘ Theatre. 7.30pm. £3 (£1 ).
See Fri 15.
0 Circus ComedyTheatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. See Tue 19.
o Whalers Third Eye Centre. Box Office: 041 332 7521 . Thurs2 l—Sat 23 May. 7.30pm. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. A moving and fascinating one-man play by Michael Elder about the history of whaling in Dundee. Elder manages to communicate the sadness of the dying industry and the cruelty of the industry itself.
0 Getting Past It Third Eye Centre. Box Office: 041 3327521 . Thurs2 l—Sat 23 May. 10.15pm.Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. Lite begins
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by Lynn Bains. about growing-older pains and involving the talents of Elaine C. Smith and Forbes Masson (better known as one halfof Victor and Barry).
0 Macbeth Drama Centre. 7.30pm. See Tue 19.
0 It’s Called the SugarPlum Drama Centre. 10.30pm. See Tue 19.
o Ritchie and the Rockets Queens Park Baptist Church. 7.30pm. £2 (inc refreshments). 50s' Night. Impact ‘87 Promotion.
CABARET/FOLK/ JAZZ
o Circus ComedyTheatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. See Tue 19.
0 Gavin Meekie and The McLuskey Brothers Tron Theatre. Box Office: ()41 55242678 1 1pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members.
o Latetest Moir Hall. Tickets: 041 552 5691. £3.50. Non-stoplate-night cabaret from 10pm. Excellent country and western comedian Ilank Wangford.
0 Live Entertainment llorse Shoe Bar. 17 Drury Lane.
ROCK
0 Gavin Meekie/T he McCluskey Brothers Tron Theatre. Trongate. 11pm. £4. Mayfest has certainly kept the McCluskey Brothers busy! And they're not finished yet . ..
DANCE
0 Scottish Dance Theatre: Triple Bill Rankine Hall. 8pm. Tickets: £4. £ 1 .50. SeeTue 19.
KIDS
o The Pied Piper Barrowfield Primary. 2pm. Free. See Wed 20.
WORKSHOPS
o The Music Theatre Workshop Maryhill Arts Centre. 10.30am—5pm. See Mon 18.
Dagoll Dagom lrom Spain in The Mikado. See Fri15.
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In the event he need not have worried. The laughs soon came. The Steamie, directed by Alex Norton and with whimsical set design by Malky McCormick (Miaow, Ya Bass), was an instant hit with the punters. And I mean punters. Currently wowing them at the community venues, The Steamie has no pretensions oi appealing to the usual, well-crucial Wildcat audiences. Rather The Steamie is an evocation at times past when a girl could still dream of a house in Drumchapel and Tony Curtis coming to sweep her oti her leet. Blessed with a line cast- Dorothy Paul emerging a narrow points winner over the always impeccable Elaine C. Smith, Katy Murphy and Ida Schuster—Tony Roper’s lirst attempt is less a play than a series at lrequently touching, always amusing, sometimes hysterical episodes, set in an early '50s’ Hogmanay in a corporation
washhouse.
At time reminiscent at a leminine Bevellers, The Steamie can only be viewed as a success, and there’s very little risk in my lorecasting that this is one of those plays that will appear at regular intervals for several years to come.
(Graham Caldwell)
COMMUNITY
o Pandemonium Puppets
Barlanark Community Centre 10.30am1Kinning Park Neighbourhood Centre 2pm; Eastfield Community Centre 6.30pm. See Fri 15.
o Laughterlrom the Other Side Ruchill Unemployed Workers‘ Centre. 7.30pm. See Tue 19.
0 The Steamie Barrowfield Community Centre. 7.30pm. See Fri 15.
0 Once a Catholic Kinning Park Neighbourhood Centre. 7.30pm.
FRIDAY 22
THEATRE
o Bulaplanetes Mitchell Theatre. Box Office: 041 552 5961 (Credit Cards: 227 5015). Fri 22 and Sat 23 May. 2pm and 7.30pm. Tickets: £4.50, £1 .50. First showing in Britain for Pep Bou the extraordinary and spellbinding clown from Barcelona. ofwhom saying he blows bubbles is like sayingof Fred Astaire he ‘dancesa bit’.
0 The Hypochondriak King‘s Theatre. 7.30pm. Tickets: £5. £4. £3.
See Mon 18.
o The Gorbals Story
: ' a est ommunity Venuesu Theatre). Opening night saw a garishly dressed Tony Roper nervoust pacing the loyer olJordanhill's Crawiurd Theatre. As the lights went down one couldn't help but think at the novice playwright waiting anxiously outside the doork ear cocked
Citizens‘ Theatre. 7.30pm. £3 (£1).
See Fri 15.
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. See Tue 19.
o Whalers Third Eye Centre. 7.30pm. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. See Thurs 21.
0 Getting Past "Third Eye
Centre. 10.15pm. Tickets:
£3.50. £2.50. See Thurs 21.
O Macbeth Drama Centre. 7.30pm. See Tue 19.
0 It's Called the SugarPlum Drama Centre. 10.30pm. See Tue 19.
CABARET/FOLK/ JAZZ
o Circus Comedy Theatre Tron Theatre. 8pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. See Tue
19.
o Hank Wanglord Mitchell Theatre (Main theatre not Moirllall). 10.30pm.£3 (£1.50). Excellent country and western comedian.
o The Sirens Tron Theatre. 11pm. Tickets: £4 members. £3 non-members. See Sun 17.
o Latelest Moirllall. Tickets: 041 552 5691. £3.50. Non-stop late-night
hill at 2, then on tour (see
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cabaret from 10pm. London‘s Simon Fanshawe plus Mary Coughlin. controversial jazzy/blues singer from Ireland.
0 Ceilidh Nights Winter Gardens. People‘s Palace. 9.30pm—2am. Tickets: £3.50. £2.50. From Third Eye Centre; Ticket Centre. Candleriggs and on the door. See Fri 15.
DANCE
0 Scottish Dance Theatre: Triple Bill Rankine Ilall. 8pm. Tickets: £4. £1 .50. See Tue 19.
KIDS
o Bulaplanetes Mitchell Theatre. Box Office: 041 552 5961 (Credit Cards: 227 5015). Fri 22 and Sat 23 May. 2pm and 7.30pm. Tickets: £4.50. £1 .50. Pep Bou, a Spanish magician. clown and mime artist does amazing things with bubbles! Big and colourful. the soap bubbles are blown. juggled and bounced! A fun and unusual show for the whole family.
0 The Music Theatre Workshop Maryhill Arts Centre. 10.30am—5pm. See Mon 18.
The List 15 — 28 May 11