The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
By Muriel Spark — Adapted by David HarrowerAt the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famously in her prime. Each year, Brodie selects her 'set'. The crème de la crème of girls whom she will shape through art and politics, stories of sexual liberation and titillating glimpses of the women...
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By Martin ShermanWhat if Liberace walked into a play about Liberace? That's the problem. Because when you're writing about the greatest showman of them all, what happens when the man himself turns up to check your work? Simon Russell Beale and Fra Fee go head-to-head in a gloriously bonkers, fabulously...
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By Kate Prince & Priya Parmar — Music by Josh Cohen & DJ WaldeThe remarkable story of suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst's life. Activist. Rebel. Icon. Sylvia Pankhurst – fearless, flawed, and unforgettable. The untold story of the rebellious middle child of Emmeline Pankhurst takes centre stage in this hip hop, funk and soul musical. Whilst her mother and sister battled for women's suffrage,...
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Thrice
By Al Seed ProductionsTramway, Glasgow
& touring
Macbeth is dead. Who will now heal the land? The world at the conclusion of Macbeth is one steeped in fear; where the distinction between truth and delusion has buckled; where tyranny and violence thrive. This is where Thrice begins. Both a response to Shakespeare's play and to our present moment, Thrice places nine women - three trios - in the ruins of the story. They know every word that has been spoken, every action taken. They remain after the bloodshed, asking what it might mean to live on in the shadow of ruin. Embracing poetry, musicality and spectacle, Thrice stages an imaginative event of images, movement, dance, text and original music, in which text from Macbeth is absorbed and transformed by the figures who haunt the play's edges: the witches.
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A Play, Pie and Pint
By Martin O'Connor
Òran Mór, Glasgow
Blending the text of A Midsummer Night's Dream with original Scots-language poetry, this spoken word performance follows Nick Bottom the Weaver's journey to the stage. From industry to the arts, his clash with modern-day celebrity and what he'll need to sacrifice to achieve his dream. A humorous and honest exploration of class, language, and ambition, Bottom's Dream tests the rules about who belongs where, and how difficult it is to rise to the top when you are always the Bottom.
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A Play, Pie and Pint
By Jonny Donahoe
Òran Mór, Glasgow
& touring
A son turns up at his mother's house. It's the first time in months that they have seen each other. She remarks that he's put on weight. He tells her that he is going to be a father, but he also has an ultimatum: fix their relationship or he will not speak to her ever again.
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