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Macrobert

Macrobert
University of Stirling
Stirling, FK9 4LA
Scotland
Box office: 01786 466666
Phone: 01786 466666
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  • Box office times: Mon–Sat 11.00am–6.00
  • Opening times: Sun–Fri 10.00am–8.30; Sat 9.30am–8.30

Events at Macrobert

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Baby Loves Disco
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Tiny tots love to boogie. With bubble machines, baskets of instruments, a chill-out lounge and a full spread of healthy snacks, this baby disco will prove to be a sensory over-load for your little aspiring clubber. Suitable for under 10s.
Macrobert, Stirling 19 Oct, 23 Nov, 18 Jan 1.00–4.00 01786 466666 £8
Ben X
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This mock-documentary introduces us to teen Asperger's sufferer Ben. Moving backwards and forwards between his so-called life of bullying and high school torture and his escape into online role playing games, the film delivers a doom laden narrative. Balthazar's debut feature cleverly dodges and ducks where you would otherwise expect it to run straight.
Macrobert, Stirling 13 Oct16 Oct Mon–Wed 7.30; Thu 5.15 01786 466666
Faultline/Exit No Exit
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Choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh's strong new work 'Faultline' uses dance, film and live soprano voice to tell a racy tale of a lady and her cocktail dress, whilst Michael Nyman's musical accompaniment to 'Exit No Exit' moves eight dancers at an explosively energetic pace.
Macrobert, Stirling 17 Oct 8.00 01786 466666 £12 (£9)
The Fox and the Child
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A giggly eight-year-old French child (Noël-Bruneau) strikes up a friendship with a fox she meets on the way home from school. This marks a step forward in narrative storytelling for Jacquet, who successfully depicts the fox as a wild and uncontrolled force in a non-Disney manner. An often beguiling account of how mankind and animals can exist in harmony.
Macrobert, Stirling 16 Oct Thu 3.00 01786 466666
Hannah & Harvey - A Journey Across Worlds
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Hannah and her Dad are having trouble seeing eye to eye but help eventually arrives in the form of a big rabbit shaped package. Suitable for ages 10+.
Macrobert, Stirling 25 Oct 7.00 01786 466666 £5-£6
Have Box Will Travel
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Birmingham Rep presents a rites of passage drama about a young man, his South London bedroom and his love of hip hop.
Macrobert, Stirling 28 Oct–29 Oct 8.00 Buy tickets 01786 466666 £10 (£6-£8)
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
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In 2003 'Vice' magazine ran a feature about Iraq's only metal band Acrassicauda. With the help of the magazine team the hard-rocking friends put on a sell-out show in the summer of 2005. This film documents the team's lamentable return to Iraq a year later, where they find the band separated by war and a nation in ruin.
Macrobert, Stirling 16 Oct Thu 8.15 01786 466666
Locked In
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Half Moon Young People's Theatre present a hip hop drama which revolves around two rising stars of a local pirate radio station.
Macrobert, Stirling 30 Oct 1.30 & 8.00 01786 466666 £10 (£6-£8)
Mamma Mia!
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A bride-to-be tries to find out the identity of her real father in the lead up to her wedding on a Greek island. Depressingly faithful film adaptation of abominable Broadway and West End ABBA song musical mega hit. The popularity of films like this certainly make one wonder about the rampancy of mental illness in our culture.
Macrobert, Stirling 10 Oct12 Oct Fri 8.15; Sat 5.15; Sun 8.15 01786 466666
Nanny McPhee (Subtitled)
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The recently bereaved Cedric Brown (Colin Firth) has way too many kids and no wife. After his hired help resigns, he finds Nanny McPhee (Thompson), a wart-ridden, single-toothed harridan who has a remarkably calming affect on his wild children, but his troubles are just beginning because now he has to find a new wife before snobby Aunt Adelaide (Lansbury) cuts off his financial lifeline. Hodge-podge tale of privileged revelry, cliché and antiquated morality that plays like a wretched…
Macrobert, Stirling 12 Oct Sun 1.30 01786 466666
On Our Way To Lisbon
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Two supporters fondly remember how Celtic became the first British team to lift the European Cup in 1967 and draped Europe in green, white and gold.
Macrobert, Stirling 19 Oct 8.00 Buy tickets 01786 466666 £10 (£6-£8)
The Scottish Ensemble: Eight Seasons
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A heady mix of Italian Baroque and Argentinean Tango. The Ensemble performs a stunning compilation of Vivaldi's 18th-century masterpiece 'Four Seasons' interspersed with the movements of Piazzolla's 'The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires', written almost 250 years later.
Macrobert, Stirling 26 Oct 7.45 01506 844 645 £14.50 (£6-£12)
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra: New Tango
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Director Tommy Smith leads the orchestra in an homage to Piazzolla Brazilian Scenes, with music from Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, featuring composers Astor Piazzolla, Mario Caribe and Leo Blanco.
Macrobert, Stirling 2 Nov 8.00 01786 466666 £12 (£9)
Sex And Chocolate
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The MsFits present this bittersweet comedy about life, love, mobsters and Maltesers.
Macrobert, Stirling 25 Oct 8.00 01786 466666 £10 (£6-£8)
Skin
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A performance that brings together various media, dance and emotionally infused movement. The dancers do an interpretative investigation of what lies beneath the skin, where our skin begins and ends and the spirit of collectivity.
Macrobert, Stirling 24 Oct 8.00 Buy tickets 01786 466666 £12 (£6-£9)
Tim Minchin
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The 2005 Perrier Best Newcomer winner shows off his skills as a comedian, actor, composer and musician.
Macrobert, Stirling 22 Oct 8.00 Buy tickets 01786 466666 £15 (£13)
WALL-E
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Inspired by sci-fi classics from the 1960s and 70s, Pixar have created a post-apocalyptic story set in a future in which the Earth has been abandoned by humankind, where a solitary robot named WALL-E executes his now pointless trash collecting programme. At its heart this is a very sweet romantic comedy, and that's what provides the emotional clout.
Macrobert, Stirling 13 Oct15 Oct Mon 1.30; Tue 7.30; Wed 2.30 01786 466666
WALL-E (Subtitled)
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Inspired by sci-fi classics from the 1960s and 70s, Pixar have created a post-apocalyptic story set in a future in which the Earth has been abandoned by humankind, where a solitary robot named WALL-E executes his now pointless trash collecting programme. At its heart this is a very sweet romantic comedy, and that's what provides the emotional clout.
Macrobert, Stirling 14 Oct Tue 12.00 01786 466666
The Wave
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A slickly produced examination of how fascism can enter everyday life, 'The Wave' is a peer pressure teen drama where much of the heat comes from above, noticeably Vogel's high school teacher who wonders what will happen if he instils in the kids a few lessons from the Nazi past. Gansel doesn't dig too deep, but his well-made youth drama offers a couple of moments of tension come the denouement.
Macrobert, Stirling 10 Oct12 Oct Fri & Sun 5.15; Sat 8.15 01786 466666
Yee Ha!
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Young Scotty sets out to prove to young Lulu that there is much more to the world of play than just video games. With singing, dancing and healthy outdoors pursuits in abundance. Suitable for aged 2+.
Macrobert, Stirling 26 Oct 11.00am & 2.00 01786 466666 £8 (£6)

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