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The Maly Drama Theatre at St eterstrurg st

Tramway. Mon 4—Thurs 7 May.

Classical

I The Greene String Quartet Stevenson Hall. RSAMD. 7.30pm. £8 (£5). Uncategorisable players bring their distinctive touch to everything from Charles Mingus to Guns N‘ Roses. See preview.

Music

I Hue & Cry Moir Hall. 11.30pm. £11 (£10). See Fri 1.

I Woltstone City Hall. 8pm. £6 (£4). Ceilidh-rock from one ofScotland‘s fastest-rising bands. See preview.

I Bill Hicks Moir Hall. 8pm. £8 (£6). See Fri 1. I Bruce Morton Arches. 7pm. £6.50 (£3.50). See Fri 1.

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I Edward II Citizens‘ Third Theatre. 7.30pm. £5 (£1). See Fri 1.

I Gaudaamus Tramway. 8pm. £8 (£5). The Maly Drama Theatre of St Petersburg in a celebrated comic play about new recruits in the Russian army. Directed by Lev Dodin. See preview.

I The Steve Shill Retrospective CCA. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). See Fri 1. I Sienna tied King‘s. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£7.25), £1 1 .50 (£5.75), £8.50 (£4.25). Special Otter today only: two tickets for the price of one. The Peter

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Tony Harrison's epic and controversial poem THts PRODUCTION CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND IS NOT

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15! - 3rd May 7.00pm BRUCE MORTON - Sin

9.30pm CATEGORY A - Glasgow Boy, No Mean Fighter/Eye of the Hurricane 5th - 9th May 7.00pm PEN NAME - Miss Julie

9.30pm SNAR LING BEASTIES - The Woman Who

Cooked Her Husband

CAFELOCO

A new, outrageous, theatrical night club

Hall company visits Scotland for the first time with Stephen Poliakofi’s play about an extraordinary romance in the suburbs. See preview.

I Malrtln O'Connor and Garry O'Brialn Moir Hall. 11.30pm. £6.50 (£3.50). Brilliant button-accordionist O‘Connor performs tunes from around the world including his home country, Ireland. O'Briain accompanies on mandocello and guitar.

Cabaret/Comedy

I The Mary Whitehouse Experience City Hall. 8pm. £8 (£7). The TV show with a tendency towards the juvenile fields Rob Newman and David Baddiel with some less heavily-censored material.

TUESDAY 5

Theatre

I Other Places Citizens‘ Third Theatre. 7.30pm. £5 (£1). See Wed 29.

I The Hypochondriacs Citizens‘ Second Theatre. 7.30pm. £5 (£1). See Thurs 20.

I Edward II Citizens'Third Theatre. 7.30pm. £5 (£1). See Fri 1.

I Gaudeamua Tramway. 8pm. £8 (£5). See Mon 4. I MISS Julie Arches. 7pm. £6.50 (£3.50). Promising young Scottish company Pen Name in Strindberg‘s drama about inter-class love and lust.

I The Steve Shill Retrospective CCA. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). See Fri 1. I Sienna lied King’s. 7.30pm. £14.50 (£7.25), £11.50 (£5.75), £8.50 (£4.25). See Mon 4.

I The Woman Who Cooked tier Husband Arches. 9.30pm. £5.50 (£3).

_ Fringe favourites Snarling

Beasties complete Debbie Isitt‘s trilogy with a story of marital jealousy and culinary tragedy.

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along with iellow iunster David Baddiel at the City Hall,

Mon 4 May.

I Good Tron. 7.30pm. £5.50(£3.50). Student reduction: two tickets for £3.50. See Fri 1.

Music

I Paul Brady Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 8pm. £8 (£5). Already a highly-regarded songwriter (Dylan calls

him a ‘secret hero‘) whose

work has been performed by Tina Turner. Carlos Santana and Dave Edmunds, Brady‘s own performing career continues to grow, slowly but surely.

I Mitre Heron Moir Hall. 11.30pm. £6.50 (£3.50). The former Incredible String Band mainstay has now put together an acoustic four-piece which could herald the return of that distinctive sound.

Cabaret/Comedy

I More Stand-up Moir Hall. 8pm. £6 (£5). Unbeatable all-female line-up of London circuit comics starring Jenny Lecoat, Donna McPhail. Hattie Hayridge and Brenda Gilhooly. See preview.

I Holsten lmpro Old Athenaeum. 11pm. £6 (£5). You may be fed up

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years and revive: three plays at the CCA, Fri t—Sat 9 May.

with improvisation. but Jeremy Hardy, Kit Holerbach. Steven Frost. Alan Marriott and Ben Keaton could be the ones to change your mind.

WEDNESDAY 6

2 Theatre

I A Drunk Man Looks atThe Thistle Old Athenaeum.

7.30pm.£6.5()(£3.50). 3 Mayfest chief Robert

Robson directs this centenary multi-media staging ofllugh MacDiarmid‘s great poem. Sec preview.

I Other Places Citizens’ Third Theatre. 7.30pm. £5 (£1). See Wed 29.

I The Hypochondriacs Citizens'Second Theatre.

7.30pm. £5 (£1). See Thurs 20.

I Edward II Citizens‘Third Theatre. 7.30pm. £5 (£1). See Fri 1.

I Gaudeamus Tramway. 8pm. £8 (£5). See Mon 4. I MISS Julie Arches. 7pm. £6.50(£3.50). See Tue 5. I The Steve Shill Retrospective CCA. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). More from Steve Shill; this time two early pieces, Face Down and A Fine Film of

Ashes. See preview. ? I Sienna lied King‘s.

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