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Theatre - List picks

  • Source: The List (Issue 607)
  • Date: 17 July 2008
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  • Scratch Night
    Performers, writers and dancers are given ten minutes to try out their latest ideas on a live audience, who offer their feedback later on. See preview, left. Arches, Glasgow, Tue 22 Jul.
  • Much Ado About Nothing
    The second instalment in this year’s Bard in the Botanics season is a colourful promenade production, with Glasgow’s Botanics providing the perfect backdrop to Beatrice and Benedick’s verbal sparring. Botanic Gardens, Glasgow, Fri 18 Jul–Sat 2 Aug. Preview Thu 17 Jul.
  • Fall (Previews)
    The third part of Zinnie Harris’ trilogy about the effects of war on ordinary lives focuses on the aftermath of a conflict and the attempt of a country and culture to move forward. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Thu 24–Sat 26 Jul.
  • Pornography (Previews)
    The UK premiere of Simon Stephens’ new play, in which pornography is seen as a symbol of our disaffection, and isolation from others. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Mon 28 Jul & Sat 2 Aug.
  • The Tailor of Inverness
    Dogstar presents Matthew Zajac’s one-man play, which charts the eponymous Polish-born tailor’s life, from the horrors of World War II to old age in the Highland capital. Arches, Glasgow, Tue 29 & Wed 30 Jul.
  • New Electric Ballroom (Previews)
    Dublin-born playwright Enda Walsh follows up last year’s award-winning success, The Walworth Farce, with this tale of three ageing sisters in a remote fishing village, still trapped by romantic memories of their halcyon days at the titular night spot. Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, Wed 30 Jul & Sat 2 Aug.

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