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CLUBS Riverside Festival
A stirring Bank Holiday weekend (doesn’t May have loads of those?) of alfresco clubbing with Electric Frog making excellent hosts once again. Among those entertaining the masses will be Sven Väth’s Cocoon, Siriusmodeselektor, Carl Craig and Len Faki. See preview, page 71. Riverside Museum, Glasgow, Fri 29 & Sat 30 May.
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AROUND TOWN The Lighthouse Late
A celebration of fashion, design, music and cinema sprawling across all five floors of The Lighthouse featuring hotly tipped trio Prides performing a stripped-back set, with rising star KLOË providing the upbeat sounds. And we at The List have only gone and curated the thing. See feature, page 100. The Lighthouse, Glasgow, Fri 29 May.
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Far from the Madding Crowd The Thomas Hardy novel was long overdue a remake after its classic 1967 version with Julie Christie and here it finally comes with Thomas Vinterberg directing, David Nicholls adapting and Carey Mulligan, Michael Sheen and Matthias Schoenaerts starring. See review, page 79. General release from Fri 1 May.
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DANCE Candoco / Jérôme Bel
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TV The Vote
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COMEDY Derren Brown
Bel’s award-winning The Show Must Go On brings together a UK-wide cast of 20 performers (a mix of disabled and able-bodied dancers), 19 pop songs and one DJ. A diverse jukebox soundtrack includes Nick Cave, the Beatles and Celine Dion. See feature, page 44. Tramway, Glasgow, Fri 22 & Sat 23 May. As part of the general election coverage, this Donmar Warehouse play is screened live as we follow the last 90 minutes in a London polling station before the final ballot paper is stuck into the box. Mark Gatiss, Nina Sosanya and Catherine Tate are among the performers. See preview, page 121. More4, Thu 7 May, 8.30pm.
On the back of major live hits such as Something Wicked This Way Comes and Svengali, the psychological illusionist promises us a Miracle. If you come out of the theatre anything less than awestruck, then Dezza won’t have done his job properly. See preview, page 73. Edinburgh Playhouse, May 18–Sat 23 May.
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CHOSEN BY THEATRE DIRECTOR CORA BISSETT Withered Hand / The Girl Effect
I want to definitely catch the gigs of Lost Map acts at Summerhall in May. I’m a big fan of Withered Hand who worked with me on the music-theatre project Whatever Gets You Through the Night as did RM Hubbert and Neil
Pennycook who will be playing too. I hope to catch them all.
I’d also like to catch The Girl Effect presented by TeenCanteen, because it sounds like a frickin’ great idea. Each band covers songs by girl groups past and present with all proceeds going to Scottish Women’s Aid. It features Broken Records, Eugene Kelly, the Spook School, Solareye (Dave Hook from Stanley Odd), Flash Talk, Golden Arm, Bodyheat, Graham Weir and Rally & Broad’s Jenny Lindsay. Withered Hand (part of Nothing Ever Happens Here), Summerhall, Edinburgh, Fri 8 May; The Girl Effect, Summerhall, Edinburgh, Sat 9 May; Rites (co-created and directed by Cora Bissett), Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Tue 5–Sat 9 May; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Tue 26– Sat 30 May.
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