March is upon us, the month of St. Patrick’s Day, daffodils and erm… hares? There’s also quite a lot of theatre…
Glasgow Comedy Festival dominates the city’s venues for much of the month. The Citz plays host to Mark Steel, Simon Amstell and Susan Calman ( from us at last year’s Fringe). Nina Conti performs her innovative ventriloquy at the Tron and the big guns – Jimmy Carr, Stewart Lee and Dylan Moran tread the boards at Clyde Auditorium. Keep an eye out for our review of the latter in Perth next week.
Comedy aside, The Tron kicks off with the Football Colours Allowed season, tackling the issue of sectarianism. It includes Alan Bisset’s work-in-progress, Souness, about the perm-and-tash 80s footballing icon. Love 2.0 () and White () are two recently well-reviewed plays which fetch up there too.
A Play, A Pie and A Pint is back at both Òran Mór and the Traverse and this month features Take The Rubbish Out, Sasha, the first of three new dramas from Russia and the Ukraine presented by the National Theatre of Scotland.
A new Amanda Gaughan-directed Hedda Gabler opens at the Lyceum, while the boys are back in town at the King’s Theatre. The Slab Boys () transferring from Glasgow from 10 March, with the ever popular The History Boys arriving the following week. Meanwhile at the Festival Theatre, Scottish Opera’s Orfeo ed Euridice and Scottish Ballet’s returning A Streetcar Named Desire, sit alongside two contrasting musicals – Return to the Forbidden Planet and the surefire hit The Producers, starring Jason Manford, Phill Jupitus and the excruciating but ridiculously popular Louie Spence. Just have a look at how they’ve been promoting it.