Autumn Season 2010
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This October, the Tron Theatre Company will present the world premiere of Abigail Docherty’s Open.Stage winning play, Sea and Land and Sky directed by Andy Arnold. Poetic, visionary and startlingly written, Abigail Docherty’s historical play is based on actual diaries of young Scottish nurses who experienced the Great War and was chosen by the public through the Tron’s Open.Stage competition.
Christmas time once again sees Gordon Dougall and Fletcher Mathers bring their fabulously twisted imaginations to our cult annual panto with Flo White. This year join Commander Flo White, and her daughter Snow on an interstellar escapade that boldly goes where no Dame has gone before!
The Tron’s artist in residence, Leann O’Kasi will adapt and perform Dirty Paradise. Inspired by a short story by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, this staging will use designs by visual artist Arlene Wandera and is directed by Alison Peebles. This sensory experience raises questions about our inner demons and voices and is produced as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival 2010.
Smaller children are encouraged to enjoy A Very Cosy Christmas in this year’s Christmas Tall Tales. Following the sell-out success of 'Little Rudi' and 'Santa’s Little Helpers', this interactive storytelling session is aimed at children aged 3 – 6 and encourages participants to wrap up warm and help create a magical winter story. Special nursery performances are available throughout the week. They will also enjoy White, Catherine Wheels’ new production which comes to the Tron during the school holidays on 12 and 13 October.
The Main Auditorium has a very busy programme of visiting work this Autumn, kick starting with final chapter of the Stewarton trilogy, The Chooky Brae . As funny as The Wall, as moving as The Ducky, this completes Norma, Rab and Barry’s stories about growing up in small town Scotland and tells Irene and Gordon Gordon’s story, a tale about duty, devotion and free range fowl. Dogstar thunder into Jacobite Country, Henry Adam’s scintillating new comedy from the Scottish Highlands that sits on the edge of Europe and sanity.
Following on the success of 'Slick' and 'Bright Black' and fresh from the 2010 Fringe, Vox Motus presents The Not-So Fatal Death of Grandpa Fredo. This play questions what is sacred in today’s media-saturated, Big-Brother-embracing, science-as-religion society. The Traverse Theatre Company presents its charming two-hander, Midsummer. Already a huge hit in Edinburgh and London, this is the story of Bob and Helena and a great lost weekend of bridge burning, car chases, wedding bust-ups, bondage miscalculations, midnight trysts and horrible hung-over self-loathing misery. Finally, Mull Theatre returns to the Tron with a new production of Conor Macpherson’s Olivier Award-winning Irish fable,The Weir.
As ever the Tron will also host a wide range of theatre, comedy and cabaret events as part of Glasgay! 2010. The Maids is Jean Genet’s murderous tale of two sisters, this time performed by an all-male cast. There will be a reading by Jackie Kay from her newly published memoirs, Red Dust Road , and there’s also comedy from Scotland’s favourite kilted treasure, Craig Hill. Finally, the Tron is thrilled that last year’s Changing House smash hit Bette/ Cavett moves to the Main Auditorium for a week.
The Tron’s intimate Changing House space continues to host an eclectic mix of new and innovative theatre. The RSAMD and Playwrights’ Studio collaborate once again under the banner of New Works, presenting rehearsed readings of new plays from three of Scotland’s most celebrated writers. Mull Theatre presents The Opium Eater, the tale of Thomas De Quincey and his simple-minded servant Willie in an 1820’s Grassmarket brothel and following rave reviews and sell-out performances in 2008 and 2009, Magnetic North once again presents Walden its beautiful one-man adaptation of Thoreau’s classic meditation on self-sufficiency.
Back after critical acclaim at Òran Mór’s A Play, A Pie and A Pint, Lemonjelly Productions revives Poem in October, inspired by the poetry of Dylan Thomas and CATS Award winning company Lung Ha’s presents The Two Volodyas and Romance with a Double Bass two new plays by Carol Rocamora inspired by two of Anton Chekhov’s short stories.
The Tron is also supporting two off-site works which are part of the IETM Glasgow plenary from 4 – 7 November. Blood and Roses is an audio play from Poorboy that leads audiences around Glasgow’s Merchant City, starting at the Tron box office, and there’s another chance for audiences to experience Ankur’s hard-hitting and visually stunning expose of sex-trafficking, Roadkill.
