MARTIN SOAN - Armed with a stream of gags, a mountain of props and an avalanche of material, Martin will amuse and amaze with his extraordinary comic images.
24 Sept at 8pm.

"As Used in the Famous Nelson Mandela" - MARK THOMAS - A deeply funny and deeply disturbing journey of Mark's rampage through the arms trade. Hard hitting, laugh out loud funny and shockingly entertaining, Mark Thomas is never anything less than compulsive.
26 - 27 SEPT at 8pm.

IN CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD WILSON - As part of the Tron's 25th Anniversary celebrations, Pinsent Mason is sponsoring an In Conversation series with well known Scottish personalities.
8 OCT at 7pm.

Oran Mor. Website.
0141 357 6200 for info and events other than A play, a pie and a pint.
731 - 735 Great Western Road, Glasgow G12 9QX On the Corner of Great Western Road and Byres Road a new cafe/bar with two performance spaces one on the first floor with an amazing Alastair Grey ceiling. Great atmosphere.

This venue has had four successful seasons of A Play, A Pie And A Pint at lunchtime the fourth one runs 28 Aug - 23 Dec. It is also occassionally used as a theatre venue in the evening and has music events. See their website for details of events.

Side Effects by Raman Mundair, produced with the Young Company of The National Theatre Of Scotland.
Review - Interesting cast but writer needs to see more.
28 Aug - 2 Sept Doors will open Monday - Saturday at 12.30 p.m.(the play will start no later than 1.05 p.m. and last 45 minutes maximum).

Drawing Bored by Daniel Jackson.
Review - Not just a comic play.
3 - 8 Sept Doors will open Monday - Saturday at 12.30 p.m.(the play will start no later than 1.05 p.m. and last 45 minutes maximum).

Sea Change by Lewis Hetherington. The sea is rising and three people try to survive somehow.
Review - Powerful new play.
11 - 16 Sept Doors will open Monday - Saturday at 12.30 p.m.(the play will start no later than 1.05 p.m. and last 45 minutes maximum).

Tir Nan Og by Dave Anderson. Comical musical by David Anderson.
Review - Powerful new play.
18 - 23 Oct Doors will open Monday - Saturday at 12.30 p.m.(the play will start no later than 1.05 p.m. and last 45 minutes maximum).

Brace Position by Rona Munro.
Review - Well packed text.
25 - 30 Sept Doors will open Monday - Saturday at 12.30 p.m.(the play will start no later than 1.05 p.m. and last 45 minutes maximum).

Hedy Lamarr And The Easter Rising by Michael James Ford.
2 - 7 Oct. Doors will open Monday - Saturday at 12.30 p.m.(the play will start no later than 1.05 p.m. and last 45 minutes maximum).

The Arches book on line at www.thearches.co.uk
0141 565 1023
New entrance at 253 Argyll St opposite the Argyll St exit from Central Station. Disabled access to all floors, cafe bar, theatre and toilet facilities.
The Arches which has clubs, music, exhibitions as well as theatre has been given a make over and there's more to see and eat. Further info about Arches & their company.

Arches Artists' Forum - Monthly forum for all artists. To join the Arches Artists' Forum, please email: jean@thearches.co.uk (Meetings on Wednesdays once a month at 6pm (90 mins) FREE).
Please note - the Arches Artists Forum returns in April.

Arches LIVE! - 21 - 30 September 2006 a season of new works by emergent companies. FESTIVAL PASS: £20/£16 (Spend A Penny & Scratch excluded). DAY PASS: £10/£6.

Pit - Faultline with Neil Doherty - an Arches new work commission - You are invited to a feast in the stomach of the city. That feeling in your pit, the wet leap forward. You are the special guest. Formal wear preferred. Carnivores welcome. Come hungry. Bring your tongue.
21 - 22 Sept at 7pm

Finished With Engines - Friedman McKendrick Viola - an Arches new work commission - On a floating nuclear testing observation platform, two crewmembers with an increasingly sketchy grasp of their situation attempt to navigate the capricious rungs of escalation, as a bizarre civil insurgency plays out in the bay at their backs. Drew Friedman and Stephanie Viola are founder members of The Riot Group. Alan McKendrick won the 2006 Arches Award for Stage Directors. This is their first co-production.
21 - 23 Sept at 8.30pm.

La Petite Mort - Lisa Marie Gregan - In this new production Lisa Marie Gregan explores society's obsession with women who kill and the fate of the femme fatale.
21 - 23 Sept at 8.40pm.

No Prior Thought - Hoachin' Stushie - Our actions have consequences but our thoughts precede these. Is there such thing as spontaneity?
22 - 23 Sept at 7pm.

Scratch Night - Performers try out their new ideas in front of an audience in ten minute slots. Feedback in the bar afterwards.
25 Sept at 8pm | pay what you can

The Art of Swimming - Playgroup - Lynda Radley returns after her triumphant April Scratch with a one-woman show about endurance swimming, circus acts, storytelling and time.
26 - 27 Sept at 7pm.

66°33'07"S…and all was white - Sari Lievonen and Diana Simpson - Recreating the extreme environment of the Antarctic in the bowels of the Arches, this interactive performance installation uses live video tracking, dance and soundscaping to examine the physical gestures of exploration firsthand. Award-winning Glasgow sound artist Diana Simpson collaborates with Finnish dancer and visual artist Sari Lievonen on an extraordinary, sensory new work.
26 - 28 Sept at 8pm.

A Moment's Peace - Petrified Paradise - Last year a detainee of Dungavel Removal Centre escaped and began walking to freedom. Later that day, unable to find the human contact he was seeking, he turned around and went back. A radical new piece of mixed-media documentary theatre in the corridors and basements of the Arches, looks atthe human cost of Britain's increasingly hard-line approach to immigration.
26 - 30 Sept at 8.40pm.

Weasel Words - Rough Ruby Productions - Shona hates her job. Then Tom shows up. Motivated by pure lust, Shona helps him to transform the organisation into an efficient and ethical business. A comedy about the terrible danger of taking your head out of the sand.
26 - 28 Sept at 8.40pm.

Self Contained - National Theatre of Scotland Young Company - If you thought the apocalypse was imminent, what would you do? Where would you go? Using the dissolute atmospherics of the Arches as a stimulus, NTS Young Company have created a devised debut production which depicts extraordinary characters living a not-so-implausible scenario. Developed at the Arches' Scratch Night.
29 Sept at 7.30pm, 30 Sept at 2.30pm & 8.30pm.

THE FABLED STAGE - an Arches new work commission - Al Seed (Arches Artist in Residence) and Ben Faulks (Jonathan Pram) present a trailer for a new work. Drawing on the tradition of the travelling player and the expeditions of Ernest Shackleton, these two highly physical performers tell a story of adventure, endurance and a friendship glued together by tea and mint-cake. A full production of The Fabled Stage will appear at the Arches early in 2007.
30 Sept at 7pm.

ARCHES LIVE! ARTISTS' FORUM - This year's Arches LIVE! sees many companies responding to unusual performance spaces and evolving new forms of theatre to fit them. Dee Heddon, writer, performer and lecturer in Theatre Studies at Glasgow University chairs this season's Artists' Forum, considering the growing interest in 'site-responsive' work in relation to theatre's ability to retain its urgency and relevance to contemporary audiences.
30 Sept at 4pm.

Spend A Penny - Arches Theatre Company - Do you let them touch you...? Arches Theatre Company celebrates fifteen years of boundary-pushing by moving in on your personal space, as we cordially invite you to a series of one-on-one confrontations in the club toilets. Eight writers - Liz Lochhead, James Kelman, David Harrower, Frank Deasy, Megan Barker, Lynsey Murdoch, Lynda Radley and Daniel Jackson contributed original monologues, to be performed by eight of the best actors to have graced the Arches stage/ corridors/alleyways in our short history. Arches Artistic Director and founder Andy Arnold, devises, directs and deviates a completely unique theatrical experience. Subject matter: Decidedly murky. Please wash your minds thoroughly on leaving.
26 September - 7 October (no Sunday performance) at 7.20pm, 7.50pm, 8.20pm (20 mins). Tickets very, very limited indeed. Cost: 1p (suggested donation of £5). Call 0870 240 7528 to book.

Theatre Royal Glasgow www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyalglasgow
0141 332 9000
282 Hope Street near RSAMD The home of Scottish Opera and Scottish Ballet which also has the occasional touring companies including drama.

Habeas Corpus - The Peter Hall Company - Lust and longing has taken hold of the Wicksteed family in the swinging 1960's Brighton in Alan Bennett's full of action comedy. Starring James Fleet.
28 Aug - 2 Sept at 7:30pm Thurs and Sat mats at 2:30pm.

Steptoe & Son in Murder atr Oil Drum Lane - A specially written stage play brings back the father and son scrapdealers.
4 - 9 Sept at 7:30pm Thurs and Sat mats at 2:30pm.

The French Lieutenant's Woman - A brand new stage version of John Fowles' novel set in the 1860s. A woman stands looks at the sea Smithson an amateur scientist tries to find her secret and risks all he has.
11 - 16 Sept at 7:30pm Thurs and Sat mats at 2:30pm.

Der Rosenkavalier - Scottish Opera - David McVicar recreates Strauss' opera conducted by richard Armstrong.
4, 7, 11, 21 Oct and 14 Nov at 6:30pm and 21 Oct at 2:15pm.

The King's Glasgow www.kings-glasgow.co.uk
0141 240 1111
297 Bath St
Buses or train from Queen St or Central to Charing Cross, buses go past entrance to theatre. Fine traditional theatre with good sightlines and four levels of seating, two bars. Disabled access to theatre auditorium at side.

Buddy The Buddy Holly Story - Musical that has his song and tells the story of his short life.
28 Aug - 2 Sep Mon - Thu at 7:30pm, Frid & Sat at 5:30pm & 8:30pm.

Guys And Dolls - With a cast and orchestra of over 50 and enroute to Broadway from London and having won 2 Olivier Awards. Set in 1940s New York where gambler Nathan bets his friend Sky he can't make the next girl fall in love, Sky's got a challenge when she's a missionary.
16 Sep - 7 Oct Mon - Sat at 7:30pm also Wed & Sat mats at 2:30pm.

Ramshorn Theatre
0141 548 2558 or 0141 552 3489 email
98 Ingram Street 10 mins walk from Central and Queen St Station
Run by Strathclyde Theatre Group STG and celebrating its 30th anniversary. It's an open access company, working to professional standards. (Also checkout weekly Tuesday Lunchtime Music at the Ramshorn for details Alan Tavener, Director of Music, University of Strathclyde 0141 - 548 3444).

For future events check out their website.

Gilmorehill G12, www.gilmorehillg12.co.uk, University of Glasgow.
0141 330 5522.
Large converted church entrance on corner of University Avenue and Kelvin Way. Go to Kelvinbridge on Underground turn left along Gt Western Rd, turn right into Bank st which becomes Kelvin Way

Check their website for events.

Tramway www.tramway.org.
Box Office 0845 330 3501(normal rates apply)
Albert Dr by frequent train from Central Station to Pollockshields East 3 mins.
Venue for Art, Music, Dance as well as occassional Theatre, cafe also base for several community performance groups. Has a marvellously designed new green space The Hidden Gardens open in Tues to Sat 10am to 8pm or dusk if earlier and Sun 12pm - 6pm or dusk if earlier.

Freespace - Performance and artists opportunities on Thursday Evenings before and after the main performance event in the street area of the Tramway. For details to apply contact by email - freespace_tramway@hotmail.com putting freespace in subject line.

My Dark Sky - Reeling & Writhing - The White Rose group in the last days of their protest s against Hitler and the Nazi regime.
16 - 30 Sept Wed - Sat at 7:30pm.

Check out their website for future events.

CCA www.cca-glasgow.com
350 Sauchiehall St Glasgow G2 3JD
Relaunched in 2002 the Centre for Contemporary Arts has mainly visual arts but also film, music and occasional dance and theatre. Smart Cafe, Bar and Bookshop.
0141 352 4900.

Phone venue for info - only very occassional theatre productions.

Sharmanka Kinetic Gallery www.sharmanka.co.uk
0141 552 7080
14 King St near Tron Theatre and beside Russian cafe Cossachok
Unique and fabulous kinetic sculptures by Eduard Bersudsky perform! Magical, extraordinary.
Look up for their latest creation St Mungo installed nearby at the Tron Clock Tower.
Tickets £4, conc £3, children under 16 - free Please book in advance by phone or e-mail.
Performances each week.
Performances Tue,Thu,Sun at 7pm
Matinee Sun at 3pm
Small groups are welcome any other time by appointment.
Review by Thelma Good.

RSAMDwww.rsamd.ac.uk
0141 332 5057
10 Renfrew Street Glasgow G2 3DB Near Bus and Queen St stations
Home of the Royal Scottish Academy Of Music And Drama. Performances from music, theatre and opera students at various times during the year some at other venues. You can download their public programme from their website.

For events check out their website.

Cottier Theatre website.
93 - 95 Hyndland St Converted church with performance space in Glasgow's west end.
Presently closed for refurbishment.

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