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
WA = Wheelchair Access: P = Parking Facilities: WC = Adapted Toilet(s). TICKETLINK
Tickets for major venues in (ilasgow are available from the Ticket Centre. Candleriggs. Mon Sat l0.30am 6.30pm: Sun noon 5pm in person or until ()pm by phone on 0l4l 287 55l l. .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. Candlet'iggs. (ilasgovv. 0l4l 287 5‘)l0: most branches of W] I. Smith. John Menzies and James Thin Booksellers: or by credit card from Tokenline. 0|7l 240 8800.
Glasgow Drama
THE ARCHES
253 Argyle Street. 0001 ()22 ()300. lWC. WA]
Four Dogs And A Bone and Lord Byron’s Love Letter l'ntil Sat 1 I .May. 7.30pm. £7 (£4). Double-bill of American plays. featuring John Patrick Shanley's fast-paced look at the tnaking of a movie. l'iIIH‘ Dogs .«tmlxl Bone and the Scottish debttt of'I‘ennessee Williams’ one-act play. Lord Byron 's Love Letter. See review.
Dark Light Commissions Ttie I4 May. 7pm. £ 1. 'l'rainvvay's senior
producer. Steve Slater talks through the objectives of Tramway's Dark Lights Comtnissions. which offer artistic and technical support to promising Scotland- based artists.
Death And The Maiden Wed l5-Sat l8 May (not Thu l6). 7.30pm. £6 (£4 ). Forge Theatre presents Ariel Dorfman's gripping thriller about a torture victitn whose husband inadvertently invites the doctor who abused her into their house. See preview.
CCA
350 Satichiehall Street. 352 4900. |W(‘. w..\|
Each . . . And Every Inch Tue
l4 Sat 18 May. livery 6 tuins over 20 min intervals from 7 l()pm. £8 (£6). tTtilising twelve spaces throughout the building. Cryptic explore the life and work of Canadian writer. lili/abeth Smart through music. soundscapes. visuals and text.
CITIZENS’ THEATRE
l l‘) (iorhals Street. 42‘) 0022. IP. H. TI. WC. WA]
Jive! Jive! Jive! t'ntil Sat 1 I May. 7.30pm. £10 (£3). Musical comedy from Take Two Productions set in a l‘)50s (ilasgow dance hall and packed with hits from the decade.
A Fresh Pair 01‘ Pants t'ntil Sat 1 I May. 7.30pm. £10 (£3). Cotnic storytelling with Michael Kerrins. Night School Tue l4--Sat 18 May. 7.30pm. £5 (£3). llarold Pinter’s rarely performed short play in which an alienated man encounters a succession of menacing street people.
I Am Woman Tue 21-! Sat 25 May. 7.30pm. £6 (£3) (iorhals Youth and Community Theatre presents Isobel Barrett's play.
COTTIER THEATRE
03 95 llyndland Street. 357 3868. Ill. w(‘. WA]
Boy Gets Girl l'ntil Sat 1 1 May. 8pm.
£3—£8 from 01355 23665 I. Rapture Theatre stage this new production of Rebecca (iillman‘s thriller. in which a Manhattan journalist accepts a blind date only to find herself a victim of stalking. Once A Catholic Mon l3-Fri 17 May. 8pm. Students at Reid Kerr College presents Mary ()‘Malley's comic look at 1950s convent girls discovering their sexuality.
Honk Tue 2l-—Sat 25 May. 7.30pm (Sat tnat 2.30pm). £6—£10. Pantheon stages the award-winning musical adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen‘s Ugly Duckling. GILMOREHILLG12
9 lfniversity Avenue. 330 5522. Guest Thu 9 & Fri 10 May. 7.30pm. £6 (£4). Theatre Ruban uses the results of hundreds of questionnaires to explore what it means to be young. female and living in Scotland.
STARTING POINT: ZERO Sat 18 May. 7.30pm. £7 (£3—£5). The culmination of two years‘ work bringing togetherjazz and folk musicians. sound designers and actors under the banner of The Working Party. A live improvisation described by the organisers as ‘an adventure through spaces of the imagination'. the work is dedicated to contemporary composer John Cage. See preview.
KING’S THEATRE
297 Bath Street. 287 5511. IH. WC. WA] Blood Brothers Until Sat H May. 7.30pm (Wed 8; Sat mat 2.30pm). £5-—£26.50. Touring production of Willy Russell's Liverpool musical. in which twins. separated at birth. are reunited in adulthood.
Five Guys Named Moe Mon l3—Sat 18 May. 7.30pm: Fri & Sat 5.30pm & 8.30pm. £7.50-~£24.50. The toe-tappin' musical which took the West [find and Broadway by storm goes on tour.
Bouncers Mon 20—Sat 25 May.
Mon—Thu 7.30pm (Wed tnat 2.30pm): Fri
8.30pm; Sat 5.30pm & 8.30pm.
£7.50~£ l 8.50 from. (iareth Hale (of Hale
& Pace fatne) and Tim Vincent star in
John Godber's timeless comedy about the
raucous nightclub antics of lager lads and
good time girls.
PAVILION THEATRE
l2l Renfield Street. 332 1846. IP. WC.
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Reservoir Dogs Thu ‘)—-Sat 1 I May.
7.30pm. £10. Tarantino‘s cult movie
leaps from screen to stage. as a gang of
hoods figure out how their planned heist
went so wrong.
RAMSHORN THEATRE
()8 Ingram Street. 552 348‘). IP. WC. WA. '/\:'\|
Swollen Tongues Fri 17 & Sat l8
May. 8pm. £8 (£5). Off the Cuff presents
Kathleen ()liver's award-winning.
contemporary take on Restoration
comedy. written entirely iii rhytning
couplets.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tue
2l—Fri 24 May. 7.30pm. £6 (£3). Reid
Kerr College give Shakespeare‘s
romantic comedy a punk edge with
grunge music. scary fairies and not very
bright young lovers.
RSAMD
l()0 Renfrew Street. 332 5057. [ll. WC.
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Kill The Old Torture Their Young
Mon l3—‘Thu 16 May. 7.30pm (Wed mat
2.30pm). £6 (£4). Final Year Acting
students at the Academy present David
Harrower's darkly cotnic look at Glasgow
in the mid-90s.
The Don Tue l4--Fri 17 May. 7.30pm
(Thtt mat 2.30pm). £6 (£4). lain
Heggie‘s reworking of Moliere's Don
Juan. in which former one-hit wonder
Donald Johnston finds himself charged
with possessing ttnderage porn.
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