15DAYStolive The things to catch this fortnight
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Alternative Fresher’s Week CLUBS Once again, Cabaret Voltaire caters for those select students whose music tastes have developed beyond Chesney Hawkes and ‘Summer of ‘69’. See preview, page 47. Cabaret Voltaire, Edinburgh, Fri 24 Sep–Sat 2 Oct.
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Orlando Babette Mangolte: Yvonne Rainer - Testimony to Improvisation 1972-75
THEATRE Virginia Woolf’s novel is reworked by Theatre Cryptic, in conjunction with composer Craig Armstrong and producer AGF. See preview, page 94. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 30 Sep–Sat 2 Oct; Tramway, Glasgow, Tue 2–Sat 6 Nov. VISUAL ART Filmmaker Babette Mangolte explores her working relationship with performance artist Yvonne Rainer. See preview, page 97. Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow, Fri 1–Fri 29 Oct; Yvonne Rainer: Dance and Film, Tramway, Glasgow, Tue 5–Sun 10 Oct.
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Ross Noble
Take One Action! Police, Adjective
Rebecca Hunt
COMEDY Everyone’s favourite long-haired surrealist returns for more tangential wandering and strangely obscure yet worryingly accurate mimes. See preview, page 54. Playhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 7 Oct. FILM Scotland's global action cinema festival celebrates the people and films that are changing the world for a third year. See Film Index. GFT, Glasgow and Filmhouse, Edinburgh, Thu 23 Sep–Tue 5 Oct.
FILM A soulful Romanian tale of cops, drugs and grammar, which won the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at Cannes 2009. See review, page 59. Filmhouse, Edinburgh, from Fri 1 Oct.
BOOKS A 1960s-set novel about a big black dog and Winston Churchill, Hunt’s Mr Chartwell has been longlisted for the Guardian First Book award. See review, page 45. Out on Thu 7 Oct, published by Penguin.
4 THE LIST 23 Sep–7 Oct 2010