Behaviour Festival programme unveiled

Behaviour is the annual festival of live performance hosted and curated by Glasgow venue The Arches. Their 2014 programme was unveiled late last week, with a huge raft of new productions, world premieres and groundbreaking performances announced. Taking place between 6 March and 2 May, this year's programme features rabble-rousing political theatre, a multi-platform, cross-discipline clubbing event, and award-winning international productions.

Highlights include Milo Rau's Hate Radio, a stark and brutal exploration of the role Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) played during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. One-woman show La Merda is a critically-acclaimed feminist think-piece and already the recipient of a Fringe First Award. Bryony Kimmings will make a welcome return to The Arches in her show Credible Likeable Superstar Rolemodel, a collaboration with her niece Taylor.

Beat writer Alexander Trochhi's cult classic Cain's Book receives a new adaptation from writer/director Alexander McKendrick, while Alan Bissett's celebrated and controversial deconstruction of Andrea Dworkin's writing in Ban This Filth also gets a new run. At Tramway, The Arches present a performance of new production In May, featuring music composed by Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy. 

As ever, Behaviour will also feature a whole host of emerging theatre-makers and performers, including Lou Prendergast, Michael John O’Neill, Finn Den Hertog, Rosana Cade, and Greg Sinclair. Enormous Yes, winners of The Arches' Platform 18 Award for emergent theatre and performance talent, will present their new work The Forbidden Experiment.

To bring the programme to a conclusion, The Arches will present Dark Behaviour, a very special one-off interactive clubbing event and performance devised alongside 85A. Showcasing live performance, mysterious happenings, visual delights, and what The Arches describe as "a ferocious club energy," the closing event looks set to push the boundaries between performance, clubbing expertience and visual art even farther than before. 

Details and tickets are available at The Arches site from today.

From the archive

INTERVIEWS
Jackie Wylie of The Arches on the Behaviour 2013 programme