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al habeticall by venue. Dance is listed a er drama or each city. Shows will be listed, provided that details reach our offices at least ten days before publication.
Drama & dance listings compiled by Kelly Apter.
DISABLED ACCESS KEY
Access: P = Parking Facilities, PPA = Parking to be Pre-Arranged, L = Level Access, R = Ramped Access, ST = Steps to negotiate.
Facilities: WC = Adapted Toilet(s), WS = Wheelchair Spaces, AS = Adjacent Seats, H = Induction Loop System, 1R = Infra Red System, G = Guide Dogs Allowed, R = Restaurant Accessible, C = Catering Accessible, T = Adapted Telephone.
Help: A = Assistance Available, AA = Advise Venue in Advance.
TICKETLINK
Tickets for major venues in Glasgow are available from the Ticket Centre, Candleriggs, Mon—Sat 10.30am until 6.30pm in person or until 9pm by phone on 0141 287 5511. Sunday opening is noon—5pm. Any Ticketlink box office can sell tickets for other venues.
THEATRE TOKENS
TT indicates venues where Theatre Tokens can be exchanged for tickets. Tokens can be bought from the Ticket Centre, Candleriggs, Glasgow, 0141 287 5910; most branches of W.H. Smith, John Menzies and James Thin Booksellers; or by credit card from Tokenline, 0171 240 8800.
GLASGOW DRAMA
CAMBUSLANG INSTITUTE
37 Greenlees Road, 646 1738.
The Steamie Wed 29 Sep. Arkeen Theatre Company perform Tony Roper’s Hogmanay wash-house comedy.
CITIZENS' THEATRE
119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022. [P, H, TT, WC, WA]
Filth Until Sat 9 Oct (not Sun or Mon). 7.30pm (Stalls Studio). £10 (£3). All tickets £3 on Tue. Harry Gibson directs and Tam Dean Burn stars in this stage adaptation of Irvine Welsh‘s most recent novel. Set in a compellineg sordid world of sex, drugs, murder and lice corruption. See review. Books Of 8 ood Until Sat 9 Oct (not Sun or Mon). 7.30pm (Circle Studio). £10 (£3). All tickets £3 on Tue. (Circle Studio). The multi-talented Jon Pope adapts, directs and designs two Clive Barker short stories See review.
Pygmalion Until Sat 9 Oct (not Sun or Mon). 7.30pm. £10 (£3). All tickets £3 on Tuesdays. George Bernard Shaw’s classic rags-to-riches tale. See review.
COTTIER THEATRE
93 Hyndland Street, 357 3868. [H, WC, WA]
Caesar Until Fri 1 Oct (not Sun or Mon). 8pm. £7 (£5). Theatre Fusion present Thomas Gemmell’s updated version of ShakeSpeare’s Julius Caesar, set in a contemporary political setting.
Rumours Tue 5-Sat 9 Oct. 7.30pm. £7 (£5). Eight dinner party guests try to save their host from descending into scandal in this new production of Neil Simon’s farcical comedy, brought to the stage by Wee Slice Theatre Company.
JAMES ARNOTT THEATRE
2 Gilmorehill Centre, 287 5511.
Skunk Hour Oct 1. 7.30pm. £2.50. See preview page 64.
KING'S THEATRE
297 Bath Street, 287 5511. [H, WC, WA] The Geritol Follies Tue 5 Oct. 2pm & 7pm. £4.50—£12.50. With a collective age that defies belief, this 80-strong troupe of vigorous Canadian senior citizens put the youngsters to shame with an energetic mix of song and dance.
Shang-a-Iang Wed 15—331 9 Oct. Wed 3L
Thu 7.30pm; Fri & Sat 5.30pm & 8.30pm. £5-£16.50. Rekindling the fantasies of their schooldays, three thirty-something women spend a wild weekend at a Butlins glam rock revival. Expect a certain amount of raucousness from this new ‘adults only’ musical comedy by the writer of Mamma Mia.’.
NAPIER HALL
Old Kilpatrick, 01389 876986.
Once A Catholic Tue 28 Sep. 7pm. £4 (£2.50). Convent school capers with Chip Productions as they take on Mary O’Mally’s comedy classic.
PAISLEY ARTS CENTRE
New Street, 887 1010. [H, WC, WA] Bold Girls Until Sat 25 Sep. 7.30pm; Wed 1.30pm & 7.30pm. £6 (£2). Rona Munro’s humorous look at four women battling the odds in war-torn Belfast. See review.
Rococo Blood Tue 28—Wed 29 Sep. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). The only Scottish performance from Earthfall, the celebrated dance theatre company from Cardiff. Fusing radical contemporary dance, live music and text, Rococo Blood examines the naturew of violence, with emphasis on boxing. See preview.
Terry Neason - Love BitesFri 1 Oct. 7.30pm. £8 (£4). A new cabaret of music and comedy from Edinburgh Festival Award Winner Terry Neason.
Not About Heroes Tue 5 Oct. 7.30pm. £6 (£2). Not The National Theatre present Stephen MacDonald’s award- winning play which documents the friendship between Siegfried Sassoon and poet Wilfred Owen.
PARTICK BURGH MAIN HALL
9 Burgh Hall Street, 287 5511. Once A Catholic Fri 1 Oct. 7pm. £4 (£2.50). See Napier Hall.
THE PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. [9, we, WA] Paul Daniels Magical Laughter Show
Sun 3 Oct. 7.30pm. £10—£12 (£8); family ticket £35. Paul Daniels (and the lovely Debbie McGee) serves up the usual mix of occasionally exciting magic and bad
a s. filrgs Brown's Last Wedding Mon 27 Sep—Sat 9 Oct (not Sun). 7.30pm. £10—£14. Irish comic Brendan O’Carroll stars in this popular comedy, back for a second run after a successful visit earlier in the year.
TRAMWAY 6 THE OLD FRUITMARKET Albion Street. Ticketlink.
Best Of Fri l-Sat 2 Oct. Fri 9.30pm; Sat 8pm. £6 (£4). Tramway continue their nomadic status and take up residency at the Old Fruitmarket for this latest venture from Belgian youth theatre company, Victoria (Kung Fu). Performed by 45 teenagers from both Ghent and Glasgow, Best Of features a full-scale fashion catwalk, set against a backdrop of video projections.
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TRON THEATRE. GLASGOW Thu 50 Sept - Sat 2 ()et 8pm Mat Sat 2 ()ct 2.50pm
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POLLOK COMMUNITY CENTRE Tues 5 ()ct 7.50111110141 552 5575
ST BRIDE'S CENTRE. EDINBURGH
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KNIGHTSWOOD COMMUNITY CENTRE Wed 150a 7111110141 959 9419
CASTLEMILK YOUTH COMPLEX Thur 14 ()ct 7.50pm 0141 650 0000
VILLAGE TH EATRE. EAST KILBRIDE Fri 15 ()ct 7.50pm 01355 248669
MACROBERT. UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING Sat 16 ()ct 7.30pm 01786 461081
PAISLEY TOWN HALL Tues 19 ()ct 7.30p1110141 887 1007
EASTERHOUSE COMMUNITY CENTRE Wed 20 (kt 7.50pm 0141 771 9056
DENNY CIVIC THEATRE. DUMBARTON
Fri 22 Ocr 7.30pm McDermids : 01389 763175
CUMBERNAULD TH EATRE Sat 23 0a 7.45pm 01236 732887
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