COTTIER THEATRE
93 Hyndland Street. 357 3868. Booking also: Ticket Centre. Candleriggs.
Aladdin Wed 2—Sat 5 Dec: 7pm. mats Wed. Thu (Q Sat 2.30pm. £6 (£4). Traditional panto of the famous story of Aladdin. his wicked uncle Abanazar and the magic lamp.
KING'S THEATRE
Bath Street. Phone bookings. Ticket Centre. C‘andleriggs. see Ticket Link t details above. TT. [Access: l’PA. l.. 5 Facilities: WC. WS. H. (i. (‘. Help: A. ] AA] Fame Until Sat 2| Nov. 7.30pm: mat Wed 8: Sat 2.30pm. £5- £l5 (concs
available). Long-established atnatuer company the Apollo Players bring to the stage an updated version of the hit musical. which centres around the New York School of Performing Arts.
THE OLD FRUITMARKET
Albion Street. 287 SSI l.
Pain Sat 2 l. 0pm & Sun 22. 7pm. £0 (£4.50). See Touring and preview. page ()7.
PAISLEY ARTS CENTRE
New Street. 887 Hill). lAc'cess: l’PA. l.. R. Facilities: WC‘. W8. H. (i. C. Help: A. AA]
Fascinations From The Crowd Sat 21 Nov. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). See Touring.
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Jacob and son: Joseph And His Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at Edinburgh Festival Theatre (see page 74)
PAVILION THEATRE
l2l Renfield Street. 332 I846. [Accessz ST. Facilities: WS. 0. Help: AA]
The Hard Man Mon 23 Nov. 7.30pm. £3—£5. A one-off concert reading of the new Scottish musical set in yesterday's Glasgow. Following the rise. fall and redemption of Johnny Byrne. the Razor King. the reading will feature the entire musical score. Domenick Allen stars as Jolmny Byrne.
The Magical Adventures Of Pinocchio Tue 2 Dec—Sat 23 Jan. Times vary — call box office for details. £(i—£‘).50. A Christmas panto based on the classic story of a little puppet boy and his magical adventures. Starring the Krankies and Derek Lord from High Road.
RAMSHORN THEATRE 08 lngram Street. 552 348‘). Bookings
also Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. see Ticket Link details above. lAccess: ST. Facilities: WC. WS. G. Help: AA] Broken Glass Until Sat 21 Nov. 7.30pm. £7 (£2.50). The Rapture Theatre Company present Arthur Miller's most recent play. set in Brooklyn in 1938. A Jewish woman falls victim to a mysterious disability that eventually turns out to be an emotional response to the Holocaust in Germany. See New Shows. page ()8. Gimme Shelter Tue le-Sat 5 Dec. 7.30pm. 'l‘ue—Wed £5 (£ l .50); Thu—Sat £7 (£3). Strathclyde Theatre Group
present Barrie Kecffe's powerful trilogy
of short plays set two decades ago. The ‘achieving society' belies the run-down estates and the dead-end jobs lived by the play's characters.
RSAMD
l00 Renfrew Streeet. 332 5057. [Access: l’l’A. ST. l.. l‘acilities: WC. WS. H. (i. C. Help: A. AA] Pre-Paradise Sorry Now Tue tutu-i 4 Dec. 7.l5pm. £5 (£3). Chandler Theatre. Written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder in Not), this is the imagined story of Moors murderers Myra llindley and Ian Brady. This contains material which may cause offence.
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Under Milk Wood Ingenious and earthy interpretation of Dylan Thomas's famous poem for the stage, directed by Andy Arnold for the Arches Theatre Company, See revrew, page 70. Glasgow. Arches Theatre Pain Multt-media exploration of coping with a debilitating illness, written and performed by Graham Cunnington, who has suffered throughout his life from chronic rheumatonl arthritis See Frontlines, page 8, and prevrew, page 67 Glasgow: Old Fruit/market Edinburgh Traverse Theatre.
Speedrun Young Glasgow writer Isabel Wright's professional debut is a fast-movrng exploration of the needs and desires of seven young peOple in a pub on Hogmanay, staged in the Tron’s sexy new box office. See preView, page 67 Glasgow Tron Theatre
The Collector Mark Healy’s powerful stage version of John Fowles’s Creepy novel An inarttculate Clerk wms the Lottery, buys a house and abducts a talented yoong art student. Edinburgh Royal lyceurn Theatre.
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