Shows
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ReviewsComing All Over The Keyboard
A husband is caught, pants around ankles, face lit up by laptop and arm pumping. A wife flees the family home, porn actors recollect glorious pasts while popping Viagra. Saturated by sex, the characters stumble from one empty encounter to another, naive then jaded, frustrated, never able to come enough times, never able to connect Read more »| 26 Feb 2010 -
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A Lot of Alienation
The National Theatre has given the keys to an old shop in Govan Cross to some of Glasgow’s most energetic young performers. Read more »| 25 Feb 2010 -
PreviewsFlatrate: Energising the Sunken Faces of Britain
the Flatrate theatre group have been entertaining Glasgow audiences with one aim: “to work harder, faster and more intelligently than any other company"out there. Read more »| 24 Feb 2010 -
PreviewsThe Return of the The Wanderer: 11 and 12
One of the greatest directors of any generation comes back to the venue he helped to found. Read more »| 19 Feb 2010 -
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Back Beat
The Beatles are not only one of the most celebrated artistic sparks in history; they are also one of the most romanticised. Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
PreviewsOne More For The Road
Lucille Burn steps out from the fan dances and feathers to salute the heart-broken with her first solo show Read more »| 18 Feb 2010
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Uncluttered and Companionable
Clutter Keeps Company has a brilliant lighting design. All nuance and subtle movement, it brings the simple set to life as a pop-up book, clear and coherent.... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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Kill Your Timid Notion
For years, Barry Esson and Bryony McIntyre, creative directors of the Arika organisation, have been asked whether their festivals are “experimental mus... Read more »| 18 Feb 2010 -
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What We Wish Was True
Watching What We Know, I am fascinated by the central scene, where the grieving Lucy is confronted by a baleful youth who demands food and dispenses gnomic w... Read more »| 17 Feb 2010 -
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Glas(s) Act
Glas(s) introduce us to that rare beast - a married couple... Read more »| 16 Feb 2010 -
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Speed dating, absinthe and theatre
An evening of speed dating turned out to be an excellent rehearsal for Etiquette. Part of The Arches’ off site programme, Etiquette sits two stran... Read more »| 11 Feb 2010 -
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La Bohème Preview
It took me a while to appreciate opera. Completely lacking the necessary aesthetic sophistication, or historical knowledge that it seems to demand, I expected it to be too abstract, too formal, to really engage my tastes. Even the modern interpretations, which insist on updating the action or underplaying the glamour had aftertaste of desperation: was an Italian opera set in a television studio anything more than a cheap gimmick? Read more »| 10 Feb 2010 -
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Absent Friends
Oldham Coliseum has produced another high quality production Read more »| 09 Feb 2010 -
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Back to the Beat
Iain Softley knew that Backbeat would make for great live theatre long before his original film was complete. Read more »| 07 Feb 2010 -
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Flatties
Flatrate theatre group have been entertaining Glasgow audiences with one aim: “to work harder, faster and more intelligently than any other company out there.” Read more »| 04 Feb 2010