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Friday 12 March - Theatre
Blackeyed Theatre in association with South Hill Park Arts Centre presents
Alfie
by Bill Naughton
7.30pm
Approx running time 2 hours
Made famous by movies starring Michael Caine and more recently Jude Law, Alfie is the brilliant, original stage play about a young man with an overwhelming desire for the ladies. You might say that ‘birds’ are irresistible to him, sort of second nature. There's Ruby - ‘A lust box in beautiful condition’; Clare - ‘You're all lathered in sweat, Alfie’; and Siddie, and Clara, and Annie - but who's counting? Certainly not Alfie. Three in one evening if necessary. And necessary is the right word!
Alfie combines great comedy and genuine pathos, as well as live 60s music, as it tells the story of a cockney ‘Don Juan’ who swaggers and philosophises his way from conquest to conquest, carefully rejecting anyone or anything that might touch him too deeply.
Visit the Blackeyed Theatre Company website for more details.
“One of the most innovative and critically acclaimed theatre companies on the touring circuit today” The Stage
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Saturday 13 March - Dance/Opera
Company Chordelia presents
Les Amoureux
7.30pm
Approx running time 1 hour
In her only garment, a faded, tattered once-wedding dress with sunglasses to shield her from light, the Countess, neither alive nor dead, is a reluctant huntress, condemned forever to slake a thirst that will not let her rest.
She turns over a tarot card. For the first time ever, she has drawn Les Amoureux. The Lovers.
Her keeper, and the shadows of her domain, bear witness to the arrival of the handsome young soldier...
Company Chordelia’s new production, Les Amoureux, is based around Angela Carter's story The Lady of The House of Love which has inspired the idea of creating a visceral, theatrical equivalent to Carter’s incredible imagery. This is a story of love, life and death, a twisted Sleeping Beauty with the faded opulent feel of a gothic fantasy with a strong Eastern European quality.
Combining dance and physical theatre with opera, voice and design, Les Amoureux is a sensual tale of purity and damage. Les Amoureux creates a world where time stops and never ends, expressed through physical grace, explosive, characterful and witty movement, whispers, discord and beautiful, soaring singing.
Visit the Chordelia website for more details.
Prices:
Standard - £12
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Wednesday 17 - Saturday 20 March - Local Theatre
Harlequin - Eastwood Theatre for Youth presents
Our House - The Madness Musical
7.30 pm each evening
2.30pm Saturday matinee
Our House is the story of Joe Casey who takes Sarah, the girl of his dreams, out on their first date. In an effort to impress her with his bravado, he breaks into a building site. The police turn up ; at that point, the die is cast and his life splits in two: “Good” Joe, who stays to help, and “Bad” Joe, who turns and flees. Eventually the lives of the Good and Bad Joe begin to collide; can there be a happy ending?
Set to the classic hit music of Madness, this exuberant show won the Olivier award for the best new musical in 2003. Only released for amateur production in October 2009, Harlequin is honoured to be one of the first amateur groups in the UK to perform this fantastic musical.
Visit the Harlequin website for more details or email tickets@harlequinyouth.co.uk
Prices:
Tickets £8 - £10
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Tickets also available from 0141 616 0122
Saturday 20 March - Music
Music at the Carmichael Hall
Breabach
Doors open 8.00pm
Approx running time 2.5 hours
One of the most inventive and diverse bands to have emerged from the Scottish folk scene in recent years, Breabach return to Eastwood Park Theatre as part of their UK album tour. Breabach will perform material from their new album ‘The Desperate Battle of the Birds’ as well as from their award winning debut album The Big Spree.
From their foot-stomping reels to their heart-warming delivery of songs, there can be no doubt this band have become a household name in the folk and roots music scene.
Visit the Breabach website for more details.
“One of the most innovative and critically acclaimed theatre companies on the touring circuit today” The Stage
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Sunday 21 March - Music
Music at the Carmichael Hall
James Grant
Doors open 8.00pm
Approx running time 2.5 hours
Widely regarded as one of the finest singer-songwriters and performers around, ex Love and Money frontman James Grant plays material from all his critically acclaimed solo albums and a smattering of the old favourites in a solo acoustic setting. This is a show not to be missed, raw, heart-rending and uplifting.
Visit the James Grant website for more details.
as MOJO says, 'This is music from another place…'
“One of the most innovative and critically acclaimed theatre companies on the touring circuit today” The Stage
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Tuesday 23 - Saturday 27 March - Local Theatre
Theatre South presents
Kiss Me Kate
7.30 pm each evening
2.30pm Saturday matinee
A must-see spectacular! One of the very best musicals of all time! Enjoy the fabulous music and lyrics of the legendary Cole Porter in this outstanding musical which was revised in 1999 for Broadway and the West End, and has won 17 Tony awards. Kiss Me, Kate is sexy and sassy, with dazzling dancing, laugh-out-loud comedy and some of the most loved songs in musical theatre.
Visit the Theatre South Productions website for more details.
Prices:
Tickets £8 - £14
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Sunday 28 March and Wednesday 31 March - Family
Catherine Wheels Theatre Company in association with Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh presents
Pobby and Dingan
by Ben Rice
Sunday 28 March, 3pm
Wednesday 31 March, 1.30pm
Approx running time 1 hour 10mins
Sometimes we have to believe in the impossible
What if you lived in the middle of nowhere?
What if your dad spent all day searching for something he might never find?
What if your mum dreamed of living on the other side of the world?
And what if your sister was a fruit-loop who spent all day playing with two invisible friends?
12 year-old Ashmol lives in the Australian outback with his mum, dad and his little sister Kellyanne and her two invisible friends Pobby and Dingan.
One day, Pobby and Dingan disappear. At first Ashmol is happy that the imaginary friends are out of his life,but Kellyanne becomes sick. The longer Pobby and Dingan are lost, the sicker Kellyanne becomes. Finally Ashmol decides that there is only one thing to do: he must find Pobby and Dingan.
Pobby and Dingan is a heartbreaking and beautiful contemporary tale about the possibility of dreams, the preciousness of hope and how, sometimes, we have to believe in the impossible.
Visit the Catherine Wheels Theatre Company website for more details.
Prices:
Standard - £7
Concession - £4
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
New! Lunchtime Recitals
We are delighted to bring you a new series of lunch time recitals here at Eastwood Park Theatre. We have musicians from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) and the Edinburgh Quartet coming to perform for you with free lunch provided as part of the deal. All our visitors will work with schools in East Renfrewshire giving them the opportunity to work with professional musicians.
We hope you will enjoy your soup, sandwich and sonatas with us!
Monday 29 March - 12pm
Edinburgh Quartet
This performance will include a short piece by pupils from St Ninians High School after their masterclass with the Edinburgh Quartet.
The Edinburgh Quartet was founded in 1959 when Sidney Newman, then Reid Professor of Music at Edinburgh University, invited Miles Baster to return from New York's Juilliard School of Music to establish a professional quartet based in the City of Edinburgh. Thus the Edinburgh Quartet was one of the first university-based quartets in the UK. Although still busily involved in the musical life of Edinburgh University, the Edinburgh Quartet is now resident at Napier University, Edinburgh, and fulfils a busy series of commitments with the university's Ian Tomlin School of Music.
The players are more involved than most string quartets in the promotion of chamber music, playing both in Scotland's cities and throughout the county's rural areas.
Tuesday 27 April - 12pm
RSNO Woodwind Quintet: From Mozart to Mancini
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Come along and hear some of the musicians from the Royal Scottish National Orchestra perform a selection of music for wind quintet. The will perform alongside pupils from the Barrhead High School cluster who have been working with this talented RSNO ensemble.
Lunchtime Recital Prices:
Standard - £6
Concession - £4
Approx running time of each performance 1 hour
After each performance, lunch will be provided for all ticket holders.
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Wednesday 7 April - Music
Fiddler's Bid
7.30pm
Approx running time 2.5 hours
“They play like angels and devils all at once” – The Advocate, Tasmania.
“A powerhouse of flying fiddles and furious talent – BBC Radio Scotland
Fiddlers’ Bid are one of the most dynamic and exciting musical acts ever to come out of Shetland — a group of islands long famed for its fiddle and musical tradition. They have just released their new album ‘All Dressed in Yellow’ to huge acclaim, accompanied by a series of barnstorming live performances around the country.
Fiddlers’ Bid are quite simply one band featuring a whole myriad of musical styles and experiences who genuinely have to be seen to be believed!
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Friday 9 April - Theatre
The Rape of Lucrece
by William Shakespeare
Directed by Gareth Armstrong
7.30pm
Approx running time 1 hour
Following a 5-Star winning run at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe, sell-out performances at the Kings Head, Islington, the Rose, Kingston and the Rose, Bankside; Olivier award nominee and RSC actor Gerard Logan now presents his tour-de-force solo performance of Shakespeare's great narrative poem in Brighton – bringing emotional intensity to this account of the terrible crime of rape and its dreadful consequences.
Theatre at its purist: a single actor, an empty stage - and the torment of rapist and victim spring brilliantly to life.
Gerard Logan has played leading roles with the National Theatre, and the RSC (Olivier Award Nomination). Director Gareth Armstrong has created many successful solo shows including his own award-winning “Shylock”.
“……don’t miss this show. You will rarely have the chance to experience great poetry brought to life this well. Faultlessly performed by Gerard Logan, in the pure spirit-filled voice of a master, this performance is one the Royal Shakespeare Company could be proud of having produced…” ***** - Fringe Review (Edinburgh 2008)
Visit the The Rape of Lucrece website for more details.
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Thursday 15 April - Dance
Gilmore productions presents
One Up One Down
7.30pm
Approx running time 1 hour
Gilmore Productions make a welcome return to Eastwood Park Theatre after their successful Blank Album show.
One Up, One Down is a comedic flurry of dancetheatre, song and tightly wrought performance poetry. Three women worship at the altar of Consumerism, as the ‘perfect storm’ precipitates into a deluge and the economic crisis looms overhead…
Vivacious evocations of desire jostle with the pressure of survival among the fittest. Fired up with the goals of attaining flawless beauty or chasing the heels of a big job promotion, personal and global perspectives collide for three women caught up in their quest for perfection. Swaying dangerously between reluctant adoration or bitter condemnation of one another, three dynamic and vocal women struggle to create a sense of their own worth and identity from deep within the clutches of consumerism.
Gilmore Productions will be running a residency in conjunction with this production. Contact Fiona Ferguson on 0141 577 3710.
“the show’s dancing is free, raw, and at times hilarious” Fest Magazine
Visit the Gilmore productions website for more details.
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Friday 16 April - Theatre
A Mull Theatre Production
Laurel and Hardy
by Tom McGrath
7.30pm
Approx running time 2 hours
Two instantly recognisable characters: Stan's crying face and his explosive hair...Ollie's long-suffering camera look and his tie-twiddle ...and, of course, the iconic bowler hats. Emerging from vaudeville, music hall and early silent comedies, Laurel and Hardy formed an enduring partnership, crafting their films with love and attention - and clearly having fun. Audiences shared that fun and that love, and continue to do so even now, 75 years after their heyday.
Laurel & Hardy lifts the bowler hats of two charming and witty men to take a look at their lives and loves and offers a fascinating insight into their off-screen relationship and personal heartaches. With some of their finest comedy routines, musical numbers, dance and slapstick, the charm and wit of Stan and Ollie are reborn in this warm and affectionate look at the most successful and prolific comedy team in screen history.
Tom McGrath, one of Scotland's foremost playwrights, died in 2009. This production is a tribute to Tom and a celebration of life, love and friendship.
Mull Theatre will be running a residency in conjunction with this production. Contact Fiona Ferguson on 0141 577 3710.
Visit the Mull theatre website for more details.
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Saturday 17 April - Music
Music at the Carmichael Hall
Joni Keen presents The Ella Fitzgerald Show
Doors open 8.00pm
Approx running time 2.5 hours
After a hugely successful year of sell-out theatre concerts performing her ‘Celebrate the Music of Ella and Oscar’ show, which thrilled audiences and critics alike, Joni returns with The Ella Fitzgerald Show.
Mixed with music festivals, radio appearances and the launch of her highly acclaimed album ‘Fragile’ which BBC Radio’s Paul Gambaccini said was a ‘very fine piece of work’, it has been a wonderfully busy year in which Joni Keen has undeniably emerged as one of Scotland’s finest vocalist. She has thrilled audiences throughout the country with haunting versions of songs such as the Gershwin classic ‘Summertime’.
Visit the Joni Keen website for more details.
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Wednesday 21 - Saturday 24 April - Local Theatre
Giffnock Theatre Players presents
The Cherry Orchard
By Anton Chekhov
7.30 pm each evening
2.30pm Saturday matinee
Set in late 19th century Russia, Chekhov’s commentary on class struggle and the clash of the old and new orders takes the form of a domestic dispute over an inherited cherry grove. Madame Ravensky and her brother Gayev own the orchard in question. The once aristocratic family face mounting debts, yet they are incapable of changing their extravagant ways. Meanwhile Russia’s future and the economic systems of capitalism and communism are being debated.
Anthon Chekhov’s last play, a timeless comedy-drama, evokes loss, longing and the relentless passing of time.
Visit the Giffnock Theatre Players website for more details.
Prices:
Tickets £7 - £9
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
Tickets also available from 0141 637 2477
Tuesday 27 April - Saturday 1 May - Local Theatre
Eastwood Entertainers presents
Footloose
7.30 pm each evening
2.30pm Saturday matinee
Eastwood Entertainers proudly present the sensational musical Footloose adapted from the 1984 film of that name which starred Kevin Bacon.
It tells the story of city-boy Ren McCormick who has to move to a puritanical American backwater where dancing and rock‘n’roll are banned. Ren revolts with best friend Willard and the minister’s daughter, Ariel and soon has the whole town on its feet.
Featuring a dynamic cast, this fast-paced show is spirited with dazzling dance numbers and an electrifying musical score.
Some classic 80’s hits include Holding Out For A Hero, Almost Paradise, Let’s Hear It For The Boy and of course the unforgettable title track Footloose.
Prices:
Standard - £10
Concession - £8
Contact the box office on 0141 577 4970
10% discount available to parties of 15 or more. Tickets also available on 0141 638 1483
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