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as well as The Jam House, Edinburgh, on Thu 15 Nov. See hebridesensemble.com.
alongside THEATRE As if the mighty multi-arts hub Tramway wasn’t b Tramway wasn’t busy enough, it’s been announced announced by Glasgow Arts that the venue is partnering with theatre company Glas(s) Performance to d deliver a new project. T The pair will work to together over the next ye year, local bu businesses and residents to to create large-scale arts we weekend Albert Drive, in whi which a series of artistic com commissions will explore ‘who ‘who is my neighbour?’ Lookk o Look Look out for it in July 2013. n In In other theatre news, or acto actor Douglas Hodge has been bee been cast in David Grieg’s adap adaptation of Charlie and the the Chocolate Factory, whi which opens the The Theatre Royal on Drury La Lane next year, directed by by Sam Mendes. Tickets ar are on sale now.
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COMEDY Ribs at the ready as headliners for next year’s Glasgow International Comedy Festival prepare to tickle us, with Harry’s Hill’s Sausage Time and Al Murray’s The Only Way is Epic Tour both set to make an appearance at the 2013 festival. This follows news that Chris Addison, Al Murray and Jimmy Carr are already signed up. See glasgowcomedyfestival. com for more.
FILM Now in its tenth year, Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival has long established itself as a must for lovers of the great outdoors, with this year’s jam-packed programme likely to entice more than 3000 enthusiasts through its doors. As always, the line-up boasts talks, films and events for all ages, with highlights this year including lectures by alpinist, climber, BASE- jumper and adventurer Leo Houlding; superman Alan Hinkes, the only British mountaineer to have scaled all 14 of the world’s 8000m mountains; Simon Willis waxing lyrical on sea kayaking; as well as an appearance from Norwegian polar explorer Børge Ousland. Film, as the title suggests, is to the fore, with a programme promising (as the stills, pictured, suggest) to show the sporting potential of the great outdoors, in all its glory. Look out for the first public screening in Edinburgh of Scottish climber Dave MacLeod in The Long Hope; the
Edinburgh Mountain Film Festival shows the full potential of the great outdoors through films and talks
high-altitude film Cold, with its frightening footage of the aftermath of a major avalanche; and the jaw-dropping antics of ‘Sketchy Andy’. Other highlights of the film strand include umper Smitten, about BASE-jumper ell as ‘Lucky Chance’, as well as ut his footage of him carrying out his usted 100th jump. We’re exhausted heck just thinking about it. Check uare it out at George Square rgh, Lecture Theatre, Edinburgh, see on Fri 26–Sun 28 Oct, see emff.co.uk for more.
to MUSIC This November er e the talented crew at the e Ensemble Hebrides n prepare take on a full-stage version of Peter Maxwell Davies’ marvellous , opus, music-theatre d Eight Songs For A Mad King. Performed for the first time in Scotland in e over a decade, under the , direction of Ben Twist, s look out for performances t, at The Old Fruitmarket, ov, Glasgow, on Mon 12 Nov,
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