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Political theatre showcase Mayfesto focuses on Celtic nations for 2011

Mayfesto to focus on Celtic nations for 2011

Playwrights David Harrower and David Ireland and director Leann O'Kasi share their views

20 Apr 2011

Last year’s inaugural Mayfesto – a theatre festival that aims to showcase politically-themed work at Glasgow’s Tron – took the problems of the Middle East as its overarching theme. This year, Artistic Director Andy Arnold has opted for a more local…

Mayfesto programme revealed

Mayfesto 2011 programme revealed

Tron artistic director Andy Arnold discusses the politically-edged theatre festival

7 Mar 2011

To say The Tron’s artistic director Andy Arnold has big hopes for this year’s Mayfesto would be an understatement. Launched in 2010, Arnold’s plan was to bring Glasgow a new, socially and politically engaged theatre festival – and that’s just what he…

How Tron Theatre's Mayfesto is more politics than nostalgia

How Tron Theatre's Mayfesto is more politics than nostalgia

29 Apr 2010

Andy Arnold was on the bus when it came to him. That clever use of the letter ‘o’ could buy him two things at once: remind people of a late lamented Glasgow theatre festival, and inject a political edge to the new event he had planned. And so, Mayfesto…

Manifesto

Life as a cabaret

28 May 2009

Calum Ritchie investigates the low-budget, cross-genre revolution happening on Glasgow and Edinburgh’s cultural scenes That’s not to suggest these nights are homogenous, because each…

The Wasp Factory

The Wasp Factory

10 Apr 2008

REVIVAL Tron, Glasgow, Thu 17–Sat 26 Apr The remarkable aspect of Iain Banks’ disturbing Grand Guignol first novel is its capacity to continue to fascinate 24 years after its first publication. The story revolves around alienated Frank, a teenager…

Curtain falls on second Tron director in two years

18 Oct 2007

Glasgow’s Tron Theatre is to lose director Gregory Thompson by the end of the month, as he concentrates on his own company A B & C. His departure marks the second director to leave the company in two years, following Ali Curran, who left just a year…

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