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£16 (£12; students £8). Glittering and anarchic take on a classic from Opera della Luna. The Drowsy Chaperone Wed 11–Sat 14 May, 8pm (Sat mat 3pm). £9–£14. Runway Theatre Company gives a first Scottish outing to this Tony award- winning show, in which a musical theatre fan’s favourite cast album comes to life in his living room.
✽✽ Six Black Candles ●●●●● Wed 18 May, 7.30pm. £12 (£10; students
£8). See review, page 104.
■ THE GLASGOW ART CLUB 185 Bath Street, 248 5210. Fingask Follies: Some like it hot, hot, hot . . . Tue 24 May, 6.30pm. £50. A musical revue from the Fingask Follies. ■ KING’S THEATRE 297 Bath Street, 0844 871 7648. Footloose Thu 28 Apr, 7.30pm; Fri 29 Apr, 5pm & 8.30pm; Sat 30 Apr, 4pm & 7.30pm. £28.50–£31.50 (£25–£28). Get your dancing shoes on for the last few nights of the hit dance musical. The Sound of Music Tue 10 May–Sat 4 Jun (not Sun), Tue–Sat, 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2.30pm); Mon, 7pm. £39.50–£46. Jason Donovan stars as Captain von Trapp (except 23, 30 and 31 May) in the classic family musical.
■ ÒRAN MÓR 731-735 Great Western Road, 357 6200. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: From Paisley to Paolo Until Sat 30 Apr, 1pm. £8–£12.50. A new play by Martin McCardie. Ticket price includes a pie and drink.
✽✽ A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Miracle Mon 2–Sat 7 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50.
See Stage Whispers, page 101. A Play, a Pie & a Pint: Thank God for John Muir Mon 9–Sat 14 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Andrew Dallmeyer’s play about a man who has to come to terms with his blindness following an industrial accident. Candid Cabaret Sun 15–Wed 18 May, 7.30pm. £11.50 (£9.50). A new variety show from the RSAMD’s Musical Theatre performers. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: Top Table Mon 16–Sat 21 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. Rob Drummond’s latest play takes the form of a wedding ceremony, complete with speeches. Six and a Tanner Sun 22, Mon 23 & Thu 26 May, 7.30pm. £12 (£9). One- man play performed by David Hayman, in which a middle-aged man rages at his father’s coffin. A Play, A Pie & A Pint: I Heart Maths Mon 23–Sat 28 May, 1pm. £8–£12.50. James Ley’s play follows a heartbroken statistics lecturer looking for love using a pseudo-Darwinian theory. ■ PAVILION THEATRE 121 Renfield Street, 332 1846. Paras Over The Barras Until Sat 7
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May (not Mon/Tue), 7.30pm (Wed & Sat mat 2pm). £13.50–£16.50. James Barclay’s popular comedy set in wartime Glasgow. The Naked Truth Fri 13 & Sat 14 May, 7.30pm. £16.50–£18.50. Comedy from the writer of Girls’ Night Out, about a group of women struggling to conquer pole dancing for a charity event. Gordon Smith: Beyond Belief Tue 17 May, 7.30pm. £20. Psychic readings and mediumship.
■ PLATFORM The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Easterhouse, 276 9696.
✽✽ A Conversation with Carmel Wed 11 May, 7.30pm. £8 (£4.50).
See preview, page 105. ■ RAMSHORN THEATRE 98 Ingram Street, 552 3489. Bold Girls Mon 2–Sat 7 May, 7.30pm. £6–£9 (£4–£6). Strathclyde Theatre Group performs Rona Munro’s moving play following the lives of three women living in the midst of Belfast’s Troubles. Company Tue 10–Sat 14 May, 7.30pm. £9.50–£10.50 (£7.50–£8.50). Glasgow Music Theatre presents Stephen Sondheim’s musical comedy about five couples and their mutual friend Bobby.
FREE Hollywood à la Carte Sun 15 May, 2–5pm. Strathclyde Theatre Group presents another of its theatrical menus, this time serving up a spread of Academy Awards glamour. I Love You Because . . . Mon 23 & Fri 27 May, 7.30pm. £7.50. Motherwell College students present this New York- set musical updating of the Pride and Prejudice story. Neil Simon’s London Suite Tue 24 & Thu 26 May, 7.30pm. £7.50. A pacy comedy about four couples staying in an upmarket hotel, brought to the stage by students from Motherwell College. Blood Wedding Wed 25 May, 2.30pm; Sat 28 May, 7.30pm. £7.50. Motherwell College take on Ted Hughes’ translation of Lorca’s rural tragedy. Personals Wed 25 May, 7.30pm; Sat 28 May, 2.30pm. £7.50. Musical revue made up of some unusual personal ads and their responses. ■ RSAMD 100 Renfrew Street, 332 5057. Plug III: Dance Plug Tue 3 May, 7.30pm. £7 (£5). Modern Ballet students dance to music composed by RSAMD students. Candid Cabaret Previews Tue 10–Fri 13 May, 7pm. £6.50 (£4.50). An
early chance to catch a new variety show from the RSAMD’s Musical Theatre performers. Much Ado About Nothing Tue 10–Sat 14 May, 7pm. £8.50 (£6.50). Shakespeare’s dark and wordy comedy. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Tue 24–Sat 28 May, 7pm. £8.50 (£6.50). The RSAMD heralds the arrival of summer with Shakespeare’s trippy woodland love story. ■ SCOTTISH YOUTH THEATRE The Old Sheriff Court, 105 Brunswick Street. Booking via RSAMD: 332 5057. The Wars of the Roses: Part One Fri 20 & Wed 25 May, 7.30pm; Sat 28 May, 11am. £11 (£8.50). Marc Silberschatz directs as the RSAMD in association with Bard in the Botanics take on an adaptation of Henry VI Parts 1 and 2, the first section of a cycle of history plays. Tickets available for individual plays, or you can see all three together for £25 (£20); the three are being performed consecutively on Sat 28 May. The Wars of the Roses: Part Two Sat 21 & Thu 26 May, 7.30pm; Sat 28 May, 3pm. £11 (£8.50). The Shakespearean history cycle continues with Jennifer Dick’s adaptation of the bloody story of Henry VI Parts 2 & 3. The Wars of the Roses: Part Three Tue 24, Fri 27 & Sat 28 May, 7.30pm. £11 (£8.50). Gordon Barr’s adaptation of Richard III rounds off the RSAMD & Bard in the Botanics’ cycle of Shakespearean histories.
■ SECC Finnieston Quay, 0844 395 4000. High School Musical Fri 20 May, 7pm; Sat 21 May, 11am, 2.30pm & 7pm; Sun 22 May, 1pm & 5pm. £12–£22. Musical based on Disney’s Emmy winning film of the same name.
■ THEATRE ROYAL 282 Hope Street, 0844 871 7647.
✽✽ Richard Alston Dance Company Thu 26 May, 7.30pm.
£8.50–£25. See preview, page 105.
■ TRAMWAY 25 Albert Drive, 0845 330 3501.
✽✽ Na Grani Fri 13 & Sat 14 May, 7.30pm. £10 (£8). See preview,
page 105.
■ TRON THEATRE 63 Trongate, 552 4267. Sadie Wanfag’s Bingo Show Fri 29 Apr, 8.30pm. £5. Bingo-themed fun from Pauline Goldsmith and co.
✽✽ Mayfesto Wed 4–Sat 28 May, times vary. Prices vary. See feature,
PREVIEW CLASSIC ADAPTATION ANNA KARENINA Dundee Rep, Mon 23 May–Sat 11 Jun
Jemima Levick is what you might call a safe pair of hands – a fact borne witness to by a string of well-received shows at Dundee Rep and an armful of awards from her freelance days. Couple that reputation with a classic novel and a script by Jo Clifford of which Levick has an intimate knowledge (‘it’s a joyous adaptation and I love it’) from her time as assistant director on the Lyceum’s 2005 production and a hit seems almost guaranteed. If there is a surprise, though, it will come in her decision not to focus entirely
on the familiar love story: this new production is presented less as the fallout from one woman’s all-consuming passion and much more as a set of dualisms, with the story of the country landowner Levin balancing out that of urban society lady Anna and making this ‘a much more societal sort of play’, and nevertheless one that deals in dialectics rather than didactics. Levick puts the shift down to increased years and maturity since her last dealings with the text: ‘You realise that without Levin’s story, Anna’s almost feels quite trite, and equally if you just had Levin’s story, you wouldn’t want to read that book on its own either.’
She is quick, however, to dispute the suggestion that Anna is any sort of outdated, irrational, passion-led female stereotype. ‘It’s frustrating in that she’s a product of her time,’ says Levick, ‘but her concerns and her commitment to what her heart desires feel very modern. She feels different to the rest, she has something inside of her that one would like to be able to pinpoint in oneself.’ (Laura Ennor)
page 102. It’s a Dead Liberty Wed 4–Sat 7 May, 9.30pm. £10. A celebration of political rallying from days gone by. Part of Mayfesto. Forgotten Thu 5–Sat 7 May, 7.45pm. £15 (£7–£11). Written and performed by Pat Kinevan, this solo piece portrays the convergence of four care home residents from Ireland in 1943. Mayfesto. Ten Men Dead Thu 5 May, 8pm. £2.50. A rehearsed reading of David Beresford’s play about Bobby Sands and the 1981 hunger strike. Mayfesto. White Rose Fri 6 May, 8.30pm. £2.50. A rehearsed reading of Peter Arnott’s first play. Mayfesto. Stars in the Morning Sky Sat 7 May, 8.30pm. £2.50. A rehearsed reading of Alexander Galin’s work about the 1980 Moscow Olympics. Mayfesto. King of Scotland Tue 10–Sat 14 May, 7.45pm. £15 (£7–£11). An observation on the intricacies of modern Scottish society by Iain Heggie. Ages 16+. A Slow Air Wed 11–Sat 21 May (not Sun/Mon), 9pm. £9 (£7). See feature, page 102. Mayfesto. Everything Between Us Wed 11–Sat 14 May, 9.30pm. £15 (£11; £7). See feature, page 102. Mayfesto. Play Me Something Sat 14 May, 7.30pm. £2.50. A romantic and political