THEATRE LISTINGS

THEATRE

Theatre is listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Touring shows are listed alphabetically by title at the end of the section. Shows will be listed, provided that details reach our otlices at least ten days before publication. Theatre Listings compiled by Ellie Carr.

DISABLED ACCESS KEY

Access: P = Parking Facilities. PPA = Parking to be Pre-Arranged. 1. = l.evel Access. R = Rantped Access. 81‘ = Steps to negotiate.

Wheelchair Spaces. AS Atttacettt Seats H = Induction Loop Systettt. G : Guide Dogs Allowed. R : Restaurant Accessible. C = Catering Accessible. T : Adapted Telephone.

Help: A = Assistance Available. AA = Advise Venue itt Advance.

TICKET lIHK

Tickets for major venues itt Glasgow are available frotn the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. Mon—Sat 10.30am until 6.30pm itt person or until 9pm by phone on 0141 227 551 1. Sunday opening is noon-5pm. Atty Ticket Link box office cart sell tickets for other venues.

I ARCHES THEATRE Midland Street. 221 9736. [Access: L. Facilities: WC. WS. C. G. Help: A. AA]

Brothers ol Thunder Utttil Sat 4 Nov. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Thunder Productions kick up a storm with Ann-Marie t1i Mambro‘s story of a priest who comes face to face with his vocation when he offers shelter to a young man dyittg of AIDS. Part ofGlasgay!

Knockers Until Sat 4 Nov. 9pm. £6 (£3). By day lte is a ‘hang-em-up' Tory MP. By night she is a gay socialist. transvestite. poet and racottteur. Witness the return of the Gingham Diva. alias Chloe Poems itt

Families: \VC =1 Adapted 'ltitlt‘its). \v's‘ .-

all her cottontrocked glory. Part of (ilasgay!

You’re Just Like My Father Fri 3 Nov. 7pm. £(i(£3). Remembered from Glasgay! 1993‘s Split Britches sltow Lesbians Who Kill. celebrated lesbian performer Peggy

: Shaw returns with a new solo show tackling her own experience of growing

up as butclt and working class iii the US. Part of Glasgay!

Sleeping With You Sat 4—Sun 5 Nov. 7pm. £6 (£3). Top-notch Californian company Starving Artists take irt everything frottt ancient Hawaii to the 1993 'March on \‘t'ashington‘ in a deeply affecting gay play for today that was first seen at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre irt 1993. Part of Glasgayl

The Immigrant Song Fri Itt-Sztt 11 Nov. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Mick Martin. who wrote ()n (l Slime Brit/ye. clatters through

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow . . .Marit nylance and Jane llorroclts discuss the tour dates for Macbeth. See Theatre Royal.

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The Swans Until Sat 4 Nov. 7.30pm. £5 (£2). The most talked about show to come out of Chicago this year (so we're told). with Lawrence Steger (last seen at the CCA with the provocative Rough Trade) combining the unlikely elements of live camera surveillance and baroque stage machinery irtto one bizarre show about two historical figures renowned for their love of fantasy. excess arid spectacle. Part ofGlasgay!

A Poem for clasgay! l‘Tl 3 Nov. 7pm.

Free. One of Scotland's best-loved poets. Edwin Morgan gives one iii a series of short bttt sweet readings scattered throughout the Glasgay! programme.

I CITIZEHS’ THEATRE Gorbals Street. 429 0022. [Access: 1.. R. Facilities: WC. WS.

; H. G. C. Help: AA] Lanark Uttlil Sat 18 Nov (ttot Sun or

history iii a beat-up Mazda itt this funked- f up tale of Britain's lrish and Pakistani

immigrattt communities. featuring live sound frottt Asian rap band Detrimental during artd after the show.

I CCA 350 Sauchichall Street. 332 7521. [Access: PPA. 1.. ST. Facilities: WC. WS.

Mort). 7.30pm; Sat ntat. 2.30pm. £6 (£2).

§ TAG Theatre Company's ambitious

t adaptatiott of Alasdair Gray’s monumental

novel. which premiered at the Edirtburgh Festival. Patchy with flashes of brilliartce. The Night I Grooved to Disco Tex & The Sex-o-lettes in Barry Blue’s Poncho Fri

3—Sat 4 Nov. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). The Citizens‘ Company goes all-out for a place irt the Guinness Book nfRemrr/s with (possibly) the lortgest show-title in the world. Arid while they‘re at it take a crazy sweep through the seedier. tackier side of the 70s in the company of some of its more bizarre characters. including six- tintes winner of Opportunity Knue/t's. Bobbie Macaroni. Part ofGlasgay! Talking Bollocks Fri 3—Sat 4 Nov. 9.30pm. £l(tickets on the night). The real deal. Glasgow guys tell their own unique stories irt this collaboration between SAM’s Gay Men‘s project arid stalwart Scottish theatre contpany 7:84. Part of Glasgay!

Look Back in Anger Thurs 9 Nov—Sat 2 Dec. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). Free preview Wed 8 Nov. Recently deceased John Osborne‘s bleak. but powerful modern classic of class conflict. friendship attd marital hell itt 50s Britain gets a 90s airing irt this new production designed and directed for the Citizens' Theatre by Kenny Miller.

I COTTIER THEATRE 935 Hyndlartd Street. 357 3868.

Great Moments of Purcell - and Blow l—‘ri 3—Sat 4 Nov. 8pm. £7 (£3). Part of Glasgay! See Dance and preview. Splinters Thurs 9-Sun 12 Nov. 8pm. £6 (£3). See Touring.

Double bill Wed l5—Sat 18 Nov. £4. Booking: Mrs Elayrte Duffy. 15 Hawthorne Avenue. Erskine. PA8 7BU. West End Theatre perform two one-act Scottish comedies Legge Iv Eleven by Harry Glass artd Hal/owe 'en by James Scodand.

Sunday Papers Sun 5 Nov. 2pm. £2 (£1). Annexe Theatre with a season of weekly readings airittg some of the best new work front Scottish playwrights. Sun 5 Nov —A Play by Andy Mackie; Why a Ulllt‘U/‘Il by James Havlirt and Musen by Peter Nardini; Sun 12 T/lt’ Summer Friends by Audrey Evans. artd The Big One by Drew Tosh.

I EAST KILBRIDE ARTS CENTRE Old Coach Road. East Mairts. East Kilbride. 013552 61000. [Access: R. Facilities: H] Just About nearly to Jump; or The Audition Fri 3-Sat 4 Nov. 8pm. £5 (£2.50). Mike Hayward (Hig/t Rmitl's

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