theatre

listings

Drama is listed by city, then alphabetically by venue. Dance is listed after drama for 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, 11 = Induction Loop System, IR = Infra Red System. G = Guide Dogs

Allowed, R 2 Restaurant Accessible, C : Catering Accessible, T = Adapted Telephone.

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

TICKETLINK

Tickets for major venues ill 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

'I'T 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.Il. Smith, John Menzies and James Thin Booksellers; or by credit card from Tokenline, 0171 240 8800.

GLASGOW DRAMA

as the good people of Glasgow show what they’re made ofat this one-off talent night.

COTTIER THEATRE

93—95 IIyndland Street, 357 3868. [11, WC, WA]

Men Should Weep Tue 27 Jun-Sat 1 Jul. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). Ena Lamont Stewart’s perennially popular drama about family life in a Glasgow tenement. Performed by students at Reid Kerr College. TumTumTinker Wed 5—Thu 6 Jul. See Kids listings.

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9 University Avenue, 330 5522.

Death in Venice Thu 22 Jun. 8pm. £10 (minimum donation). Giles Iiavergal of the Citizens’ Theatre revives his impressive one-man version of the Thomas Mann novel for this one-off performance to

celebrate the solidarity of the Scottish theatre community in calling for the Repeal of Section 28, Clause 2a. All proceeds will go to mct Theatre Company and Glasgay, the two arts organisations directly affected by the current court action against the City of Glasgow Council using Section 28,'Clause 2a. Reserve your seats by phoning 0141 330 5522 or 0141 552 4267. TalentSpotting@612 Fri 23 Jun. 8—11pm. £4. A cabaret-style evening featuring song, dance. comedy and who knows what else,

Best of all. you get to choose who goes

home £100 richer.

The Snow Globe Tue 4 Jul. See Kids listings.

E GLASGOW BOTANIC GARDENS

730 Great Western Road, 334 2422. [P, W C, WA]

Titus Andronicus Until Sat 24 Jun. 9.30pm. £5 (£2.50). Flexible Deadlock follows up last year’s promenade performance of Loves Lubuurs Lost with

5 one of Shakespeare’s bloodiest revenge

tragedies. The show begins at dusk and continues into the night, when live dismembering of bodies is promised. I’urt oft/1e Hits! [ind Festival.

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KING'S THEATRE

297 Bath Street, 287 5511. [11, WC, WA] Oliver! Until Sat 24 Jun. 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £6—£16. Another musical extravaganza from the Apollo Players. This time they’ve taken on Lionel Bart’s adaptation of Oliver Twist, featuring the little boy who dared to ask for more.

Scottish premiere of one ofTennessee Williams’ first works, only recently re- discovered by actress Vanessa Redgrave. Written in 1938, the play focuses on real- life events which took place in American prisons of the time, where convicts on hunger strike were locked in steam-heated cells and roasted to death.

PAVILION THEATRE

121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. [P, WC, WA] Peter Powers Fri 23 Jun—Sat 22 Jul (not Sun 25—Thu 2‘) Jun; Sun 2—Thu 6 Jul). 7.30pm. £10 (£9). Prepare to be shocked, amused and maybe even hypnotised as Peter Powers demonstrates his incredible skills. The show is titled ‘liilarious Hypnotics’ except on Fri 23 and Fri 30 Jun when it’s the ‘Bog Off Show" and tickets are buy one get one free. Things get even racier on Sat 24 Jun and Sat 1 Jul when it’s time for ‘Peter Powers’ Midnight Madness’, a late-night show for adults only. The mind boggles.

RAMSHORN THEATRE

98 Ingram Street, 287 5511. [P, WC, WA, \VAA]

Not About Nightingales Mon 26 Jun—Sat 1 Jul. 7.30pm. £5—£7 (£1.50—£3). Strathclyde Theatre Group performs the

RSAMD

100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. [H, WC, WA]

All's Well That End's Well Mon 26 & Tue 27 Jun. 7.15pm (Tue mat 2.30pm). £5 (£3). Second Year Acting Students perform Shakespeare’s bitter-sweet ‘problem play’. Tls Pity She's A Whore Thu 29 & Fri 30 Jun. 7.15pm (Fri mat 2.30pm). £5 (£3). Joyce Deans directs Second Year Acting Students in John Ford’s controversial Renaissance play. Written in 1633, the sensational subject matter incest caused a moral furore, but Ford’s sensitivity has kept the play popular with audiences almost four hundred years on.

SLAVE

228 Clvde Street, 400 8280.

Vampire Inferno Thu 29 Jun. 9pm—3am. £4 (£3). A vampire-themed club event which celebrates the 25th anniversary of

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