and movement. Exploring what it means to be Scottish at the turn of the let century, nationspace makes good use of this new performance space (a former warehouse), and is performed in promenade-style, with the audience moving between the various ‘zones’.
RAMSHORN THEATRE 98 Ingram Street, 287 5511. [P, WC, WA,
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Show Me The Way To The Next Whisky Bar Thu 16—Sat 18 Mar (not Fri 17). 8pm. £7 (£3). Join Bert’s Bilbao Ballroom Band and associates for this tribute to the songs and poems of Bertolt Brecht, Hans Eisler and Kurt Weill.
A Man And Three Women Mon 20 Mar. 7.30pm. £5 (£2.50). 'I\v0 short plays from RSAMD students, the classically inspired Elsi K’Etsi and PJ. Farrell’s surreal The Dummy ’s Ventriloquist.
ll Maestro Fri 24—Sat 25 Mar. 7.30pm. £7 (£3). Luigi Antonelli’s play, presented as part of the conference on Italian grotesque theatre, is a homage to one of the leading figures in the movement, Pirandello. Performed in Italian.
RSAMD
100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. [H, WC, WA]
Stags And Hens Until Thu 16 Mar. 7.15pm. £5 (£3). RSAMD students tackle Willy Russell’s comic play which takes place in the lewd, crude and ultimately stewed world of the ladies’ and gents’ toilets of a Liverpool nightclub. Timegate Until Fri 17 Mar. 7.15pm (Thu 2.30pm). £5 (£3). A space/time adventure with existential overtones.
Wallace Tue 28 Mar—Sat 1 Apr. 7.15pm. £7.50 (£5.50). Preview Tue 28 Mar, all tickets £4. The world premiere of a new musical, scored by Stow College’s Stephen Langston, which takes a more historically accurate look at the events leading up to William Wallace's trial for treason.
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New Moves The variety and excitement continues with a succession of performances from across the world. The Australian acts, in particular, are a treat to behold, and this is your only chance to catch them in Britain. Prepare for a night of visual splendour. Glasow: until Sat 25 Mar. See listings for venues.
The Shaughraun Delight in the mannered performance styles and mad excesses of real Victorian melodrama. You can even hiss the villain with impunity; and you don’t get to do that too often these days. Edinburgh: Royal Lyceum, until Sat 7 Apr.
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Arches Theatre Company at the Citizens Theatre
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Shakespeare’s much loved magical comedy gets the Arches treatment. A fast, irreverent, accessible, musical, visually imaginative and outrageous pro- duction. Guaranteed to thrill!
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