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Arches
and Arches Theatre Company.
Director - Andy Arnold.
Reviews of Arches Theatre Company productions.
Arches Artist in Residence - Al Seed.
Company Base - Arches www.thearches.co.uk
253 Argyll St opposite the Argyll St exit for Central Station.
BO 0141 565 1023.
The Arches was improved in 2001 and there's more to see and eat. Disabled
access to all floors, cafe bar, theatre and toilet facilities. More
rooms for rehearsal and performance have been added in Spring 2002.
Some with wood floors. Contact 0141 565 1011 to find out about
hiring etc.
Formed from the arched spaces under Glasgow's Central Station The Arches
contains a variety of Performance areas and is also used by a variety
of clubs and as an exhibition space. It is developing as a venue where
starting-out companies and those further along are booked to provide
a mixed programme and has performances of varying types including promenade.
They have a The Arches Award for Directors, see reviews
and award winners which is for people at the start of their careers
and had a Festival of New Scottish Theatre in 2002 see fonts
reviews. In November 2002 they had an Arches Live Festival with
15 productions and readings see info & reviews.
In April 2003 they had an Arches Theatre Festival 03 reviews.
which included the New Director's Award winners shows, they also
comission work and help companies to develop work see reviews.
The Arches Artists Forum - To join The Arches Artists Forum e-mail
list, contact arts programmer Jean Cameron on 014 565 1011 or jean@thearches.co.uk
THE Annual ARCHES AWARD FOR STAGE DIRECTORS - gives two emerging
directors the opportunity to stage a funded and fully supported production
in the Arches, Glasgow in the Spring. Applicants should demonstrate
a commitment to directing professionally and to working in Scotland.
Proposals may include visual, physical or devised theatre, new writing
or fresh interpretations of established texts.
For application packs and more information call Abigail on 0141 565
1015
or email abigail@thearches.co.uk . Closing date for completed applications
- in the July of the preceeding year..
Reviews of Arches Theatre Company's Past and
Current Shows.
The Selfish Giant - 6 Dec - 7 Jan 2006 Balance
out due to riches.
The Factory - Arches Artist in Residence Al Seed 23 - 25 Nov at
7pm.- Thrillingly
disquieting.
Last of The Classic's Season 2005
A Kind of Alaska and Moonlight by Harold Pinter- 30 Sept
- 15 Oct. Review
Betrayal by Harold Pinter - 21 Oct - 5 Nov. Review
Season 2003 - 04.
Beowulf - Arches Theatre Company a promenade production of the epic
story of a young warrior battling with and defeating grim and powerful
monsters. Adapted from the translation by Seamus Heaney Devised and
directed by Andy Arnold Designed by Brian Hartley and with music and
sound installation by Markus Karkus, in collaboration with the RSAMD
Review - Well
executed style, too much sitting.
Waiting
For Godot Part of the Beckett Season.
Play,
Footfalls And Not I Part of the Beckett Season.
Season 2002 - 03
Joy of The
Worm.
I Licked A Slag's Deodorant.Not reviewed
The Last
Yankee Scottish premiere of Arthur Miller's play. 5 -22 March 2003.
And Touring production of
Tam O'Shanter directed by Andy Arnold.
Season 2001 - 02
Playboy
of The Western World.
Juno And The Paycock.
Swimming.
American Double Bill - Four
Dogs and a Bone - John Patrick Shanley & Lord Byron's Love Letter
- Tennessee Williams.
Season 2000 - 01 The Big
Funk by John Patrick Shanley.
Some of the shows developed with help of
the Arches.
Shiver - Rough Ruby - Greta is a DIY enthusiast who wants the
perfect home but instead creates a stylishly decorated prison. Visible
Fictions artistic co-directors Kate Brailsford, Gillian Kerr and Donald
McLeary have teamed up to create Rough Ruby's first production Shiver,
a humorous and uplifting play exploring fears and phobias. Developed
with the support of the Arches Theatre. Shiver is a SAC Seed funded
work in development.
Review - Playful
but it doesn't fudge. 25 - 27 Feb 2004 at 8.45pm (60mins).
Adrienne's Dirty Laundry Experience: The Ultimate Soap Opera by Adrian
Howells - As part Of Glasgay's 10th Anniversary Programme - For
the past 20 years Adrienne has been a professional scrubber, offering
tea and sympathy whilst washing other people's dirty laundry in public,
her superstar clients. An Arches New Work commission. I
Review - The
washing experience of your life. 6 - 9 Nov 2003.
THE ARCHES AWARD FOR STAGE DIRECTORS
give two emerging directors the opportunity to stage a funded and fully
supported production in the Arches, Glasgow each year. Applicants have
to demonstrate a commitment to directing professionally and to working
in Scotland. Proposals have included visual, physical or devised theatre,
new writing or fresh interpretations of established texts. Date for
Applications for 2005 to be announced in 2004. 2004 Award Holders have
yet to be announced.
The 2001 Arches Award for Stage Directors were awarded to:-
2001 - Lion
in The Streets directed by Adrian Osmond | Dead
Pan directed by Martin Danziger |Talking
To Yourself - directed by Sally Hobson.
2003 Arches Award for Stage Directors have been awarded to Fiona
Cole for Beautiful Anger - devised work - review
and Neil Docherty, Tone Clusters by Joyce Carol Oates - review
of their comissioned performances in April 2003.
2004 Arches Awards for Stage Directors.
To The Moon - The Arches Award for Stage Directors - Puppetry in
playful combination with four actors to create To The Moon - a whimsical
universe set in a fabled past. Director Dale Heinen is the former Co-Artistic
Director of a fringe theatre in Chicago & directed two well-received
U.K. premieres on the London fringe. To The Moon will mark her Scottish
debut.
Review - Wonder
despite slight doldrums.
A Secret Room - The Arches Award for Stage Directors - In a cabaret
club as an accordionist plays a well-dressed woman eyes the crowd half-heartedly.
A tired man reads the paper backwards. In this smoky ambience, misinformation
and entertainment overlap - the cabaret is about to begin... RSAMD trained
director Kirstin McLean is associate director of new theatre company,
Nomad.
Review - A
cabaret with a uncomfortable twist.
2005 Arches Awards for Stage Directors.
A Little Laugh I Lost Somewhere - Arches Theatre Company
- Devised and directed by Skye Loneragan ( A Winner of The Arches Award
for Stage Directors) Inspired by the big truths in The Little Prince
by Antoine Saint-Exupery, A Little Laugh I Lost Somewhere unfolds for
us a collection of moments which plays with the way we see things when
we've grown up.
Review - Comic
charms not enough.
5 - 9 April 2005 at 7pm (75 minutes) £6/£4.
Snuff - Arches Theatre Company - Written and directed by Davey
Anderson ( A Winner of The Arches Award for Stage Directors). A room,
a tower block, a city like Glasgow. An anxious skinhead documents the
world around him, trying to make sense of the global forces of consumer
culture, religious fundamentalism and the war on terror. Snuff asks
us to confront difficult questions about British masculine identity.
Review - Tough
and rivetting.
5 - 9 April 2005 at 8.30pm (60 minutes) £6/£4.
Reviews of some of productions at Arches Live! Autumn 2005.
Matryoshka - Nomad - part of Arches Live! - At the height of
his fame, acclaimed Russian contemporary sculptor and war veteran Viktor
Grigory vanished. Based on devised work by Nomad Written and directed
by Mark Westbrook with original music by Oliver Searle.
Review - Subverting
our understanding of character.
16 -17 Sept at 7pm.
The Pygmy Eclipse by Adam Read - part of Arches LIVE! - This
new solo physical theatre piece, with engaging, magical visual imagery,
comes from Adam Read of multi-award winning Russian dance-clowning-bhuto
troupe Derevo (Fringe First, Herald Angel and Total Theatre Awards 2004
).
Review - Body
performance of the utmost sincerity.
16 - 17 Sept at 8.30pm.
I Love You Numb - Cat In A Cup - part of Arches LIVE! - A devised
performance in collaboration with young people and experimental electronica
band 7VWWVW. Cat In A Cup return with an ambitious community-based devised
project exploring perceptions of mental ill health in the twenty-first
century.
Review - Lack
of an outside eye.
17 Sept at 8.30pm, 19 Sept at 7pm.
MAD COW by Alessandro Valenzisi translated from Italian by Wilma
Stark - part of Arches Live! - One ordinary spring morning Lottie
finds herself excited, and a journey through a new consciousness and
(blood)lust begins.
Review - Vivid
15 minutes.
19 - 22 Sept at 8.05pm.
Something Wicked - randomaccomplice - part of Arches Live! -
A bitchy celebration of sisterhood and rivalry between three sisters.
Review -
Distinctive energy.
20 - 22 Sept at 7pm.
The Art of Silence by JS Hartley - 15 de Febrero - part of Arches
LIVE! - 15 de Febrero employ the theory of Augusto Boal?s Theatre
of the Oppressed to examine how art can help sustain prisoners through
extended imprisonment. In Paraguay Emilio and his wife were severely
tortured and on release prohibited from the rights of ordinary citizens.
Now, more than 30 years later his story is told - and crucially, he
is there on stage to tell it.
23 - 24 Sept at 7pm.
The Arches Theatre Festival 2004 -
Pandora 88 - Company Fabrik (Postdam) & Scamp - A "box", barely
1.5sq metres encapsulates the shared experiences and life paths of the
two performers. Confined together, they slip from comedy to tragedy
and back. Pandora 88 received a 2003 Fringe First award.
8 - 9 April at 7.15pm (60 mins).
Club Luz - Eddie Ladd (Wales) - Influenced by Brith Gof, the
renowned Welsh experimental theatre company. Eddie Ladd makes her own
work. Kraftwerk and Kylie-inspired features a set of 12 track - electro
-suite with B-movie visuals, based on Sam Fuller's cult film Shock Corridor.
Total Theatre Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2003
10 April at 7.15pm (45 mins)
Torn - Material Theatre and Granary Theatre (Cork) co-production
supported by The Arches New Work Commissions Scheme. - An insight
into the desperation of a man on the edge of insanity - an everyman
lost within his mind in the hope of finding love. Told through the manipulation
of paper, text, movement, music and improvisation. A collaboration between
Material Theatre and Wolfgang Hoffman, artistic director of Fabrik (German
dance/theatre company from Potsdam, Berlin)
15 - 17 April at 7pm (60 mins).
ROMCOM, or - the distance that love can be maintained between any two
fixed points - Rotozaza - The performers have no idea what is expected
of them. There are no rehearsals. They simply turn up and follow the
instructions given to them through a set of headphones. Every night
a different couple tells the story of a relationship for the first time.
Presented as part of TOCAR (theatre of command and response) - ROTOZAZA'S
ongoing research into unrehearsed theatre. TOCAR is funded by Arts Council
England.
15 - 17 April at 7.15pm (60 mins).
Misterman - Nomad - Written by Enda Walsh (Disco Pigs), Misterman
is the story of a lonely 30 something living in a small coastal Irish
town, with only his thoughts as company. A disturbingly amusing journey
the voices of the main players are brought to life through one actor.
Directed by Mark Westbrook.
15 - 17 April at 8.30pm, (60mins.
Reviews of 2003 Arches Theatre Festival held in
April 2003.
Central to the festival, were the world premieres of two new theatre
pieces commissioned by The Arches from the successful recipients of
The Arches New Directors Award. Both creating shows site-specific to
the Arches, directors' Neil Doherty's mixed adaptation of Tone Clusters
by Joyce Carol Oates and Fiona Coles' devised Beautiful Anger promise
fascinating investigations into the darker side of the human condition.
Beautiful Anger - Fiona Cole. An Arches Award for Stage Directors
Commission. Director Fiona Cole graduated from the BA Contemporary
Theatre Practice at RSAMD in 2002 and makes theatre in Scotland and
internationally. In Beautiful Anger she collaborates with fellow graduates
from BA CTP to devise a theatrical investigation into anger as an emotion,
one which manages to be both a taboo and a way of life in Scotland.
£6/4 or £9 / £6 combined ticket deal for 2 events
on same night (Wednesday -Friday)
Review
Impressive energy April 2003
Tone Clusters - SeenUnseen Productions - An Arches Award for
Stage Directors Commission. Joyce Carol Oates's play directed by
Neil Doherty. A 13 year old girl is dead suspicion falls on Carl and
his parent find all is not as they thought. Produced in collabouration
with visual artists Once Were Farmers and Pointless Creations. (90 mins)
£6/4 or £9 / £6 combined ticket deal for 2 events
on same night (Thursday and Friday only)
Review
- Tone Perfect April 2003 <
Nothing To Fear Anymore - Random Accomplice. - Developed with
support of The Arches. Dinner for two, dessert for one. Murder is served.
Julie Brown and Johnny McKnight, graduate students of RSAMD's Performing
Honours BA (Contemporary Theatre practice). Welcome to their world where
intellectual and critical thought collide with theatrical image and
(non) autobiographical material. (60 mins) £6/ £4*£9
/ £6 combined ticket deal for 2 events on same night (Wednesday
- Friday)
Review - Seductive.
April 2003
Look at Me - WAYWARD - Two men pitch camp and make coffee. One
talks, the other listens and then... Sit tight while we shake up your
prejudices in a very personal exploration Abrasive, irreverent and funny
has been devised and by distinguished Dutch actor Herman van Baar and
experienced Scots director Andrew McKinnon. Suitable for audiences 16
+ Developed with support of The Arches (60 mins) £6/4 *£9
/ £6 combined ticket deal for 2 events on same night.
Review - An
experiment but is it enough? April 2003.
Brazil - Theatre of Imagination - Scottish Premiere. This
new company's flagship production from Theatre of Imagination, a new
company led by Artistic Director Graeme Maley, Associate Artist Liam
Brennan and Producer Kate McGrath which vigorously supports writers
with originality of voice and the courage to express their social and
political convictions. With Ronan O'Donnell's new play set in a future
occupied Scotland.(60mins) £6/4 or *£9 / £6 combined
ticket deal for 2 events on same night.
Review - Russell
Crowe and Timothy Spall spliced together. April 2003.
Drag Kings and Subjects - Diane Torr interdisciplinary artist,
performer, curator and teacher famed for her Drag King workshops worldwide.
Sylvia on realising that she is no longer sexually attractive to her
husband, instead of choosing celibacy for the rest of her life, embarks
on a discovery of her own sexual fantasies. Come celebrate Sylvia's
transformation with the blue-wigged, purple sequined dressed TorrTourCo
as back-up dancers. (90 mins) £6/4 *£9 / £6 combined
ticket deal for 2 events on same night. Suitable for audiences 16 +.
Review - Sensory
stimulation but lacks development.
11 - 12 April at 8.15pm
Reviewed Festival of New Scottish Theatre 2002
productions.
Bright Colours Only by Pauline Goldsmith, Performed by Laughing
Gravy An invitation to a wake for those who are dying to live.
Review - Genuine, profound
and funny
Swimming written and directed by Frank Deasy Performed by
Arches Theatre Company There are undercurrents between Psychotherapist
Valentine, his patient Evelyn and her daughter Lucy.
Review More telling in
its subtlety
On the Edge by David Leddy A 2nd chance to see this sell out
show
Review Witty whodunit
.
Three Women by Sylvia Plath Performed by D:VA Theatre. The audience
are lead from anti natal to delivery room with stops along the way.
Review Three beguiling characters
Farmland by Bess Ross - Grey Coast Theatre Company - A family is
torn apart
Review -Too many sterile lines
Mickey The Torch by Natacha de Pontcharra, Translated by Anabel
Arden Performed by Adam P Tomkins One man play containing obsession,
hilarity and a nightwatchman
Strong performance of
a fascinating piece
Wayang Scotlandia - In Indonesian style with puppeteers Joko
Susilo and Matthew Issac Cohen and Glasgow Gamelan Naga Mas
Review - Fascinating and
relaxing
The Dawn Performed by Nomad Directed by Mark Westbrook. 3 injured
men lay in no-mans land.
Review - Stunning!
New Town by Scale Project - Live Art - People move through an
architects dream city.
11 - 13 April at 8:15pm onwards, £3/£6
Review - Intriguing design,
essentially an installation piece
End of Festival
Arches Live! Performance Festival 07- 21 November
2002
The Arches platform for and nurturing and developing new talent reflecting
the cultural aspirations and interests of the local Glasgow community.
Only two reviews because of short runs often one night, sorry.
Dido - Theatre Modo Christopher Marlowe's play adapted by Martin
Danziger
Love between two exiles struggling to find a future Theatre Modo is
Scottish based & formed to bring to life the magic of theatre, focusing
on international cultural exchange touring annually for 6 years. Review.
Starting Point: Zero - The Working Party A fusion of jazz, contemporary
performance
and Scottish and Italian Folk looks at the beauty of humans at play
and invites you to join in.
Review
of performance earlier in 2002.
© Thelma Good 2002 & 2003 - published on EdinburghGuide.com
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