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GLASGOW
■ THE ARCHES 253 Argyle Street, 565 1000. FREE Scotch Corner Fri 18 Feb 6–8pm. Artists Eilidh MacAskill and Robert Walton take over a corner of the Arches café/bar to turn it into an old country manor with a distinctly wonky take on Scottish culture.
■ THE BUFF CLUB 142 Bath Lane, 248 1777. STaG New Works Festival Thu 17 & Fri 18 Feb 7pm. £6 (£4); festival pass £20 (£14). Last couple of shows in the series of four shortlisted plays in the annual Glasgow University playwriting competition. A panel of industry professionals is judging the pieces, with the winner getting a two-week run at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe. ■ CCA 350 Sauchiehall Street, 352 4900. Iona Kewney/Jack Webb Wed 2 Mar 7.30pm. £10 (£6). Double bill from two of Scotland’s brightest young dance hopes. Part of New Territories.
■ CITIZENS THEATRE 119 Gorbals Street, 429 0022.
✽✽ Marilyn Thu 17 Feb–Sat 12 Mar (not Sun/Mon) 7.30pm (Sat 5 Mar
mat 2.30pm). £10–£17.50 (£7.50; previews Thu 17–Sat 19 Feb, all tickets £5). A look at the world of celebrity, through the eyes of the eternally fabulous Marilyn Monroe. While preparing for Let’s Make Love, Monroe meets French actress Simone Signoret and forms an awkward friendship. The Birthday Party Tue 22–Sat 26 Feb 7.30pm. £10 (£7). NLP (the company behind the phenomenally successful Singin I’m No a Billy He’s a Tim) team up with City of Glasgow College to present a new version of Harold Pinter’s first play. Lear’s Daughters Tue 1–Sat 5 Mar 7.30pm (Sat mat, 2pm). £10 (£7). XLC Theatre Company in association with Langside College presents a sequel imagining what happened to King Lear’s daughters after the end of Shakespeare’s play.
■ KING’S THEATRE 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. We Will Rock You Until Sat 19 Feb 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £21.75–£46.75. A run through all your Queen favourites in this musical penned by Ben Elton and members of Queen. Starring BBC talent search Over the Rainbow’s Jenny Douglas, Brookside’s Leon Lopez and Eastenders and Coronation Street’s Ian Reddington.
✽✽ Ailey 2 Tue 22 & Wed 23 Feb 7.30pm. £11–£23. A new and diverse
repertoire from the company of the legendary Alvin Ailey, now under the choreographic leadership of former dancer Sylvia Waters. See preview, page 82. Moscow State Circus Thu 24 Feb 7.30pm; Fri 25 Feb 5pm & 8pm; Sat 26 Feb 2.30pm & 7.30pm. £11–£23. The internationally acclaimed circus returns with its latest hit show, Legenda, promising ever more impressive feats of physical ingenuity and daring. Half a Sixpence Tue 1–Sat 5 Mar 7.30pm (Sat mat 2.30pm). £16.50–£21.50. Big-hearted musical performed by the Lyric Club. ■ MITCHELL THEATRE 6 Granville Street, 287 2999. Our House Wed 23–Sat 26 Feb 7.30pm (Sat mat 2pm). £12 (£7) in advance; £15 (£10) on the door. A musical of Madness
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hits strung around the story of a 16-year- old boy and one life-changing decision. ■ ÒRAN MÓR 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: The Archivist and Instructions for Butterfly Collectors Thu 17–Sat 19 Feb 1pm. £8–£12.50. Two short plays from the Argentinean Theatre for Identity movement to squeeze into a lunchtime. First is Marina Eva Perez’s Instructions for Butterfly Collectors, about a young girl’s dances with imagination in a dusty basement, then it’s Hector Levy’s The Archivist, in which a girl is visited by a sinister man on an intrusive hunt for information. Ticket price includes a pie and drink. A Play, A Pie and a Pint: Four Parts Broken Mon 21–Sat 26 Feb 1pm. £8–£12.50. Black comedy about how people try to fix themselves and each other, written by Brazilian playwright Fernanda Jaber and adapated by Tron Open.Stage competition winner Abigail Docherty. Ticket price includes a pie and drink. Mae West Tue 22 & Wed 23 Feb 7.45pm. £10. A play by Aishe Raif about the considerable ups and downs in the life of comedienne, actress, writer and sex symbol. A Play, a Pie and a Pint: A Dead Man’s Dying Mon 28 Feb–Sat 5 Mar 1pm. £8–£12.50. The Play, Pie & Pint series of South American theatre continues with this tale of a raucous Colombian funeral, written by Esteban Navajas Cortes and adapted and directed by Davey Anderson. Ticket price includes a pie and drink.
■ PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Peter Powers Fri 18 & 25 Feb 7.30pm; Sat 19 & Sat 26 Feb 7.30pm & midnight. £11–£14. Hypnotist act from Powers, who has been called ‘the Ali G of stage hypnosis’. Please note the Fri show is a ‘Family Fun Night’, Sat 7.30pm show is ‘Anything Goes’ (safe for teens) and the midnight show is ‘Over the Top Show’ and strictly over- 18s only.
“Type damn you. Type! It’s the only way to liberty.”
UK Première
By Linda Griffiths Wildly inspired by The Odd Women by George Gissing A co-production with Stellar Quines Theatre Company 18 February –12 March 2011 (then touring)
BOX OFFICE: 0131 248 4848 GROUPS 8+: 0131 248 4949 www.lyceum.org.uk/arousal
Royal Lyceum Theatre is a Registered Company No. SCO62065 Scottish Charity Registered SCO10509 Stellar Quines is a Registered Company No. 157796 Registered Charity No. SCO23628
■ THEATRE ROYAL 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647.
✽✽ Lord of the Flies Wed 2–Sat 5 Mar 7.30pm (Thu & Sat mat
2.30pm). £10–£26. Eagerly awaited new piece from star choreographer Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures company, produced in association with the Theatre Royal, in which the action of William Golding’s novel is transferred from a desert island to an abandoned theatre. See feature, page 20.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501. Penetrator Fri 25 & Sat 26 Feb 7.30pm. £8. The unexciting life of two friends takes a surprising turn when an old friend who has gone AWOL from the army returns to their lives. Written by Anthony Neilson and presented by Boxman Theatre. ■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Smalltown Thu 17–Sat 19 Feb 7.45pm. £15 (£11). A poisoned water supply for a small town slowly turns the residents crazy, with zombies running free and Russian roulette on Girvan beach. You get to decide on the ending! Written by DC Jackson, Johnny McKnight, Douglas Maxwell, with Johnny McKnight directing for Random Accomplice. Like This Thu 17–Sat 19 Feb 8pm. £9 (£7). Glasgow Actors present the first play by Julie Tsang, a dark tale of morality and desire. A Song, a Sip & a Sandwich Sun 20 Feb 4–7pm. £12. Cabaret night with songs from the musicals, courtesy of Insideout Productions, and tea and sandwiches courtesy of the Tron’s Victorian Bar.
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