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Tron Theatre Company presents
COCK
By Mike Bartlett
A SCOTTISH PREMIERE
Previews: Tue 9 February, 7.45pm £8
Wed 10 – Sat 20 February (excl. Sat 13), 7.45pm £10-£16
Matinee Sat 13 February, 2.30pm
BSL & AD Wed 17 Feb
CAP Thu 18 Feb
Main Auditorium
‘Why are you telling me I have to know what I am? It doesn’t matter. I love him because he makes
me toast in bed and he’s scared of cling film. I love her because she makes me feel as old as I really
am. She’s gentle’
After his long-term gay relationship breaks down, John unexpectedly meets a woman with whom he
discovers new pleasures and excitement. With the ex-boyfriend preening and strutting in the
background, and his new girlfriend uncovering a whole different side to his personality, John is
increasingly wracked with guilt and indecision about who he is and what he wants. When a civilised
dinner party to discuss the way forward rapidly descends into a messy cockfight, John has to make a
choice. What will he do?
Tron Theatre Company’s production of Mike Bartlett’s sharp and witty play will be the first UK staging
since its Royal Court premiere six years ago.
‘With the precious exception of literati like Oscar Wilde and his beloved Bosie, quarreling lovers are
never as articulate and entertaining as they are in Cock’ Variety
Written by Mike Bartlett
Directed by Andy Arnold
Tron Theatre Company presents
THE LONESOME WEST
By Martin McDonagh
Previews: Wed 6 & Thur 7July 7.45pm, £8
Fri 8 – Sat 30 July 7.45pm £10-£16
Matinee Saturday 16 July
BSL & AD Wed 20 July
CAP Thu 21 July
Main Auditorium
Bickering brothers, Coleman and Valene share a house in the wild west of Ireland. One obsesses
about his religious ornaments and his precious poteen, the other thinks only of his stomach, regularly
crashing funerals in his quest for a free sausage roll. Their local priest, troubled by a spate of
murders in the area, tries, and fails, to convince the squabbling pair to set aside their petty
differences. The brothers vow to be nicer to one another, but as they clean the slate by confessing to
a string of vile misdemeanors towards one another, things degenerate into vicious and bloody
carnage.
The Lonesome West is the third play in Martin McDonagh’s bleak but blackly comic Leenane trilogy.
Written by Martin McDonagh
Directed by Andy Arnold
CELTIC CONNECTIONS 2016
www.celticconnections.com
Sam Lee & Friends
Fri 15 January
8pm
£14
Sam Lee has been hailed as ‘Britain's most inventive folk singer’ (Evening Standard), a status
masterfully underscored by his recent second album, The Fade in Time. Tonight, Lee and his band,
on violin, Mongolian dulcimer, ukulele, piano and percussion, are joined by Traveller and Gypsy
tradition-bearers. ‘Music beyond borders and ages’ (Rolling Stone)
Cam Penner & Jon Wood with Rayna Gellert
Sat 16 January
8pm
£14
By turns elemental and spectral, Canadian Cam Penner's gruff, gritty folk/blues songcraft will be
atmospherically accompanied by Jon Wood's wizardry on guitar, lap steel and sampler, here he
launches his brand-new sixth album, Sex and Politics. ‘Masterful - utterly compelling’(AmericanaUK)
Speaking of former member of acclaimed stringband Uncle Earl, Rayna Gellert, Béla Fleck said “I
love Rayna's musical personality which is deep, funky and complex."
Oysters 3 & Granny Green
Sun 17 January
8pm
£15
John Jones, Alan Prosser and Ian Telfer, aka Oysters 3, are the founding trio and creative core of
UK folk-rock legends Oysterband. They present a freshly intimate and acoustic take on that outfit's
35-year back catalogue.
Glasgow trio Granny Green’s arresting world/folk blend of accordion, trumpet and tuba won them a
2015 Open Stage Award.
Yorkston/Thorne/Khan & Lisa O’Neill
Tue 19 January
8pm
£14
It was pure serendipity that brought Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston and Indian sarangi
player Suhail Yusuf Khan together, backstage as Yorkston tuned up for a gig. After playing that very
show together, with Khan’s cello-like instrument improvising around Yorkston’s eloquently
understated ballads, they extended the collaboration to include jazz bassist Jon Thorne, Khan’s
qawwali singing and Yorkston’s little-known skills on the Swedish nyckelharpa, with tonight’s show
launching the trio’s debut album.
Sometimes likened to a female Damien Dempsey or Shane McGowan, Cavan-born Lisa O’Neill’s
timelessly weathered voice and straight-talking songs, on her 2013 album Same Cloth or Not, have
seen her hailed as a major star in the making.
Drift
Wed 20 January
8pm
£14
Hailed by The Scotsman as ‘a rare theatrical and sculptural treat’, Drift is a cross-artform production
that evokes the extraordinary story of Shetland crofter Betty Mouat, who in 1886 spent eight days
alone and adrift on the North Sea. Incorporating narrative and song from the inimitable Gerda
Stevenson, Shetland-inspired music by Eddie McGuire, and video projections from those original
performances.
In the Round
Thu 21 January
8pm
£14
An intimate night of song-sharing from rising US stars, carving their own distinctive niches across
genres from indie-folk to classic country. From Seattle, former The Courage frontman Noah
Gundersen's intensely brooding, gorgeously melodic songs wrestle movingly with the legacy of his
conservative religious upbringing, while Kentucky coal-miner's daughter Angaleena Presley skewers
the heartaches and hypocrisies of hard-pressed ordinary Americans with trenchant lyrical flair.
Alabama native Anderson East, a protégé of Jason Isbell’s producer Dave Cobb, is generating major
industry buzz with his 2015 album Delilah, matching powerful vocals and poignant wordcraft in
gospel-hued ballads and blues.
101 Scottish Songs – The Wee Red Book
Fri 22 January
8pm
£14
The late Glasgow schoolteacher and Labour MP Norman Buchan was a major driving-force within
the early Scottish folk revival. Tonight’s performance, whose cast of top traditional singers includes
Sheena Wellington and Margaret Bennett, celebrates Collins' republication of the fondly-nicknamed
‘Wee Red Book’, an inspirational repertoire source both then and now, in honour of the TMSA’s 50th
anniversary.
From the Calton to Catalonia
Sat 23 January
8pm
£14
Dramatising the involvement of working-class Glasgow families in the Spanish Civil War, From the
Calton to Caledonia was written by Willy and John Maley in tribute to their father James, the conflict's
longest-surviving Scottish veteran. This newly revised version, directed as a rehearsed reading by
Martin McCardie, incorporates songs of the period from Arthur Johnstone and guests.
Gaelic meets Gaelic Americana; Gillebride MacMillan & Kyle Carey
Sun 24 January
8pm
£14
The North American journeyings of Scottish Gaelic culture come full circle tonight, in a concert akin
to the Transatlantic Sessions in microcosm. From Scotland, it features the renowned South Uist
singer Gillebrìde MacMillan and he's joined by New Hampshire-based singer-songwriter Kyle Carey.
Mairi Campbell ‘Pulse’
Wed 27 & Thur 28 January
8pm
£14
Drawing on her combined fluency in Celtic tradition, free improvisation and classical idioms, as well
as her personal artistic journey, the award-winning Scottish singer and fiddler/viola player Mairi
Campbell performs a new one-woman show that blends live and recorded music with animation,
dance, movement and storytelling. Pulse previewed to packed houses and rapturous applause at two
Edinburgh shows in 2015.
Seckou Keita + Gwyneth Glyn
Fri 29 January
8pm
£14
Widely regarded as his generation's most gifted and inventive exponent of the kora, the ancient west
African harp, Senegal's Seckou Keita’s latest solo release, 22 Strings, reconnects Keita's
experimental virtuosity and global array of influences with seven centuries of ancestral tradition.
‘Deeply contemplative and spiritually uplifting’ (R2)
One of Wales’s most exciting folk artists, the bilingual singer-songwriter Gwyneth Glyn is another
cross-cultural explorer, having recently collaborated with Indian singer Tauseef Akhtar on the 2015
album Ghazalaw, to be followed by her own solo release in 2016.
Lynched & Clype
Sat 30 January
8pm
£14
Brilliantly revitalising the Irish ballad-group tradition for the 21st century, Dublin quartet Lynched
match resonant four-part harmonies with terrific instrumental work on uilleann pipes, concertina,
Russian accordion, fiddle and guitar.
Simon Gall and Jonny Hardie’s band Clype are firmly rooted in the North East of Scotland, but pull in
influences from all over the world.
Vanishing Point presents
THE DESTROYED ROOM
A co-production with Battersea Arts Centre
In association with Tron Theatre and Eden Court
Preview: Thu 25 Feb, 7.45pm, £8
Fri 26 Feb – Sat 5 March, 7.45pm
£10-£16
Post show discussion Wed 2 March
Main Auditorium
The Destroyed Room takes its inspiration from Jeff Wall’s famous photograph, which shows a
ransacked room, where every item of furniture has been torn up and destroyed. What happened?
It begins with what seems to be the recording of a TV show, as guests gather to digest world events.
They sit among potted plants and standard lamps, discussing the things they have witnessed and
debating the ethics of watching. Around them, cameras glide, filming their every word and every
reaction, beaming them live onto a big screen. As the debate intensifies, slowly and as if in a dream,
the atmosphere begins to change.
The Destroyed Room is about the profusion of lenses, which bring the world right into our rooms but
also keep it at a distance. It’s about what we see and what we turn away from. And what’s coming.
Conceived and directed by Matthew Lenton
Suitable for age 16yrs+
Fire Exit in co-production with Tron Theatre presents
INTERNATIONAL WATERS
Preview: Tue 22 March, 7.45pm, £8
Wed 23 – Sat 26 March, 7.45pm
£10-£16
CAP & AD Thu 24 March
Post show Q&A Fri 25 March
Main Auditorium
No refugee crisis ever looked so chic, darling.
The social fabric has finally torn. Airports are closed, roads are blocked. Now even the 1% need to
seek asylum. Four obscenely rich members of the elite pay through the nose to join an exclusive
party on the last ship leaving London. They stay alive using the only things they know – money, sex
and madness. But the ship is sailing in the wrong direction. They don’t know each other. They don’t
know the Captain. They don’t know what the hell is going on.
International Waters comes from multi-award-winning writer and director David Leddy, who has been
called a ‘maverick’ (Guardian), a ‘genius’ (Scotsman), an ‘innovator’ (Times) and an ‘institution’
(Independent).
Like a perverse Aesop’s fable for the apocalypse, the twisting plot explores how progress can
sometimes be a trap. In this case it involves elegant glamour, brutal food poisoning, cyborg finance,
and a delicious bull testicle meringue.
Written and directed by David Leddy
Supported by Creative Scotland
Lung Ha Theatre Company presents
THE SILENT TREATMENT
Fri 1st & Sat 2nd April, 7.45pm
Matinee Sat 2nd April, 2.30pm
£10-£16
Main Auditorium
Ssssh!
No, but seriously Sssssssh!
A sponsored silence is on; so whatever you do you have to keep it zipped, keep it buttoned, keep it
together - even when one of the group is doing all they can to break you down. And how can you,
can anyone, stay silent when one of the team has just won wads of cash; and what about those
builders who just keep popping in and out, surely something has to be said to them?
Renowned playwright Douglas Maxwell, composer MJ McCarthy and the Lung Ha Theatre Company
performers take you on a (quiet) journey where silence is golden but there are many ways to
overcome silence when there is just so much to be said.
Written by Douglas Maxwell
Directed by Maria Oller
Lakin McCarthy presents
MARK THOMAS: TRESPASS
Wed 13th – Fri 15th April, 8pm
£10-£16
Main Auditorium
Trespass carries on from where Mark's previous show 100 Acts of Minor Dissent left off. It is his
usual odd mix of theatre, stand up, activism, a dash of journalism and a dollop of mayhem. Mark
asks the question: If the ramblers of the 1930s were here now what would they do to open up the
cities? How do we turn the skyscrapers and corporate squares into our playgrounds?
He sets out to try and carve a small space in the urban world where mischief and random chance
can lurk. No one knows where this show is going to end up.
Suitable for ages 16yrs+
Traverse Theatre Company presents
CRASH
Wed 27th & Thu 28th April, 7.45pm
£10-£16
Main Auditorium
“Everything that happens is created by you.”
Confidence is everything in the world of high finance. Confidence in yourself, confidence in the
market. Lose that and you lose everything.
Crash is the story of an enigmatic trader attempting to rebuild his life following a tragic event. As he
takes the first tentative steps back into the brutal landscape of trading stocks, he feels the pressure
begin to build.
In the continuing wake of the financial crisis, Scottish writer Andy Duffy creates a rare and poetic
insight into the psychology of a banker’s world. Directed by Traverse Associate Artist Emma
Callander, acclaimed for recent festival hits Cuckooed (Fringe First Award) and Theatre Uncut
(Fringe First and Herald Angel Award).
Written by Andy Duffy
Directed by Emma Callander
Performed by Jamie Michie
The Traverse Theatre is supported by Creative Scotland and The City of Edinburgh Council.
Puppet State Theatre Company presents JRR Tolkien’s
LEAF BY NIGGLE
Fri 29th & Sat 30th April, 7.45pm
Matinee Sat 30th April, 2.30pm
£10-£16
Main Auditorium
Niggle is a painter. Not a very successful one, partly because he has so many other things to do. For
some time he has been obsessed with one particular canvas – a curious picture of a tree with a vast
landscape stretching out behind it. The painting keeps getting bigger and bigger, but Niggle has a
journey to make. He doesn’t want to go, but he cannot get out of it…
In 1939 Tolkien was despairing of ever bringing his great work The Lord of the Rings to a conclusion.
One morning he woke up with Leaf by Niggle complete in his mind and wrote it down. Surrounded
by ladders, bicycles, easels and heirlooms, Richard Medrington (Jean from The Man Who Planted
Trees) recounts Tolkien’s miniature masterpiece, with music specially composed by Karine Polwart.
Suitable for everyone aged ten and over.
By JRR Tolkien
Music by Karine Polwart
With thanks to the Tolkien Trust.
Tron Young Company present
SHEEP
Thu 4 – Sat 6 Feb, 8pm
£7.50
Changing House
Come on. Are we all pretending this isn’t happening? He was the last guy we know to die. That
soldier that turned up is probably going to someone else’s funeral and someone else’s after that.
He’ll be deployed to turn up and pay his respects: make the widow feel good and then they won’t
blame the state or the military or whatever.
Inspired by attitudes to war and militarisation, from historical perspectives to current media
representation, Tron Young Company have created a blistering new original work that asks
questions of accepted roles for women and men in conflict, modern society’s use of propaganda, and
what happens when war arrives on your doorstep.
‘For then this town will have more dignity, and once again we’ll see that age return when there were
women who were strong, true Amazons, whose deeds amazed the world.’ Lope de Vega, Fuente
Ovejuna
Directed by Martin O’Connor
Designed by Kirsty McCabe
Supported by Youngstart delivered by The Big Lottery
Catherine Wheels in association with the Brunton Theatre present
WHITE
Wed 24 & Thu 25 Feb, 10.30am & 1.15pm
£7.50 (Family of three £19.50; Family of 4 £26)
Changing House
A performance for 2-4 year olds.
Welcome to the beautifully strange world of White. Full of birdsong and birdhouses, it gleams and
dazzles and shines in the night. Two friends look after the birds and make sure the eggs stay safe.
We watch, we help. The world is bright, ordered and white. But high up in the trees, all is not white.
Colour appears. First red... then yellow... then blue...
White is a playful, highly visual show for very young children and is a perfect first time theatre
experience.
‘ingeniously designed, the production abounds in visual surprises’ New York Times
Created by Andy Manley
Amy Conway in association with Platform presents
30:60:80
Wed 2 – Sat 5 March, 8pm
£10 (£7.50)
Changing House
30:60:80 is a celebration of three lives, spanning fifty years with the women of one family and inviting
audiences to consider the richness in their own maternal herstory.
When Amy’s grandma turned 30, she had three children and was thankful to finally live in a house
with an indoor toilet. When Amy’s mum turned 30, she had a profession, a mortgage and was
pregnant with her first child. Amy just turned 30. She’s single, chancing it, and certain about exactly
nothing.
30:60:80 is an invitation to three landmark birthdays to meet three remarkable birthday girls.
Devised and performed by Amy Conway
Devised and directed by Victoria Beesley
Supported by Creative Scotland
New Room Theatre presents
BLACKOUT
Wed 20 – Sat 23 April, 8pm
Post show discussion Thu 21 Apr
£10 (£7.50)
Changing House
‘My first drink seemed to unlock something. I threw up, went home, woke up with a stinking hangover
the next morning and thought, ‘that was fantastic, when are we doing it again’?’
Blackout is an honest, brutal and often hilarious insight into alcoholism and recovery, scripted entirely
from interviews with recovering alcoholics, including the writer. Meet the woman who finds herself
urinating off the top of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh. The man who nearly burns down a
stranger’s kitchen. The mother who almost beats her son to death in a drunken rage. Blackout is the
true story of real alcoholics, and the story of their recovery. Blackout is back in Scotland after a five
star, sell-out London run.
‘Outstanding’ ***** London Theatre
Written by Mark Jeary
Directed by Paul Brotherston
Sponsored by Castle Craig Foundation
Spilt Milk presents
ADULTING
Thu 16 – Sat 18 June, 8pm
£10 (£7.50)
Changing House
Adulting (verb) To adult. To behave the way everyone would expect you to behave when you are an
adult.
"I don't adult enough"
"I'm sick of adulting all the time. I just want to child."
Twenty-five. Quarter of a century years old. I am happily engaged, have a down payment on a two
bed and a glamorous but reliable job. Aged 10, this is how I saw my future. In reality I live at home
and have yet to find my soulmate. I attempt to bake. I often date. And I sometimes frequent DIY
stores. All before another glass of wine. These are the little ways I try to feel like an adult.
I know there are pros and cons to being this age, I just haven’t figured out the pros yet.
Devised by the company
GLASGOW INTERNATIONAL COMEDY FESTIVAL10-27 MARCH 2016
www.glasgowcomedyfestival.com
ALAN BISSETT: THE MOIRA MONOLOGUES
Fri 11 March, 7.30pm, £12 (£10)
Main Auditorium
The writer and actor performs his smash-hit ‘one-woman show’ in Glasgow for the first time in five
years. Don’t miss this opportunity to meet Moira Bell – cleaner, single mum and the hardest woman
in Falkirk – as she regales her pal Babs with tales about her bullied dug, her weed-smoking, her
Valentine’s night out with a randy teacher…and then there’s her own unique take on Scottish politics.
Directed by Sacha Kyle.
‘Moira's the most charismatic character on a Scottish stage in a decade. She’s also so funny that
some in the audience were literally shouting with laughter.' Scotsman ****
DOUG SEGAL: I CAN MAKE YOU FEEL GOOD
Fri 11 March, 9.30pm, £12 (£10)
Main Auditorium
‘Imagine if Derren Brown were funny’ Evening Standard
In 2015 he taught you How To Read Minds And Influence People, in 2014 he Made You A Mentalist,
now he's back with a work in progress show designed to make you feel good! As seen on BBC1 and
BBC3 .
‘The UK's best kept entertainment secret’ Time Out
'Britain's top comedy mind reader' **** The Skinny
‘A show that leaves people open mouthed with astonishment & on their feet‘ **** Edinburgh Evening
News
SCOTT GIBSON
Sat 12 March, 7.30pm, £12 (£10)
Main Auditorium
After a sold out debut show at GICF 2015, Scott Gibson returns with Like Father Like Son. An
honest and frank insight into the men who have influenced his life. An unexpected reunion with his
father, along with the death of his grandfather in late 2014 forced Gibson to look at the men in his
family, and to ask the question... is there truth in the old saying ‘like father like son’?
'A natural, gifted and unapologetic storyteller.' Frankie Boyle
'The best act to emerge from Scotland in years.' Des Clarke
University of the West of Scotland/RAFT present
A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM
Thu 28 – Sat 30 April, 8pm
£7.50 (£5)
Changing House
“I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was…”
In the dark, ethereal world of the Athenian woods, lovers, fairies and actors converge in confusion
and enchantment. Guided by mischief and drawn by wonder, this one strange and unsettling night
will change them all forever.
A small cast of final year Performance students from the University of the West of Scotland present
an abridged version of Shakespeare's beguiling tale of midsummer mayhem.
Haunting music drifts through the silver trees, and the magic begins…
By William Shakespeare
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
EARTHQUAKES IN LONDON
Thu 2 – Sat 4 June, 7.45pm
Matinees Fri 3 & Sat 4 June, 2.30pm
£10 (£7.50)
Main Auditorium
Mike Bartlett’s (Doctor Foster, King Charles III, The Town, 13) rampaging panorama of the UK in the
twenty first century has at its epicentre the unsettled lives of three sisters: one a politician, another
heavily pregnant and the other a rebellious teenager. They share an absent scientist father who has
predicted the environmental annihilation of humanity. All four struggle to find their truths against a
shifting backdrop of strip joints, business meetings, rural Scotland, uncomfortable truths and
swimming in Hampstead Heath.
A chaotic odyssey of contemporary excess, where people and belief systems are in relentless
movement and transformation. Like all great plays it is both human and political and charges us to
respond to our time.
Written by Mike Bartlett
Directed by Mark Thomson
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland presents
THE CIRCLE OF FIFTHS
Thu 2 – Sat 4 June, 8pm
Matinees Fri 3 & Sat 4 June, 2.45pm
£10 (£7.50)
Changing House
It’s snowing heavily and the roads are closed. The gymnasium of the village school has become the
shelter and sleeping quarters for the tired, stranded travelers - displaced and dispossessed for the
night and relying on the hospitality of the locals.
Between the twilight and the dawn, the headmaster, the ghost of a lorry driver, the woman with a
missing husband and even Father Christmas himself, are forced to confront each other and
themselves. As the magic hour of the dawn arrives, the snow is still falling.
The Circle of Fifths is a dreamy, discordant and haunting adaptation of the Polish novella by Szymon
Bogacz.
Directed by Matthew Lenton
Based on the book by Szymon Bogacz
Polish Text Adapted by Aleksandra Poplawska
Literal English Translation by Agnieszka Lenton
CREATIVE
It’s been brewing for a while, but here it is: a brand new way of talking about the Tron’s commitment
to nurturing creative talent in Glasgow, Scotland and further afield. Tron Creative works alongside
the incredible programme of home grown and international productions in our theatre spaces, as well
as the year-round education and outreach from Tron Participation. Between everything our goal is to
foster a wide-reaching conversation between artist, community and audience from right here at
Trongate.
First Read
Tron Creative is pleased to announce the launch of its script-reading programme, First Read. To find
out more, and how to submit, please visit http://tron.co.uk/creative/firstread.
Write Tron
Designed for writers old and new, the content of each session is customized to address the needs,
questions and interests of each writer present. This course offers fresh insights, new strategies and
the tools, motivation and inspiration to support writers to get the best out of their creative process.
Each block includes a ticket to a theatre performance and a one-to-one surgery session with the tutor
to focus on current work and the course is ideal for writers preparing submissions for The
Progressive Playwright
TERM 1: 16 Jan, 6 Feb, 27 Feb, 19 March, Surgery sessions Sat 5 March
TERM 2: Sat 23 Apr, Sat 14 May, Sat 28 May , Sat 18 June, Surgery session Sat 4 June
Saturdays 10.15am-1.15pm
£85 /£75 per term
Tron 100 Club
The Tron 100 Club is our year-long artistic membership initiative offering selected creatives the
chance to engage in a programme of workshops, panels and masterclasses with some of the biggest
names in the UK arts industry. Find out how to get involved at http://tron.co.uk/creative/100Club.
Outside Eyes
9 Mar & 22 Jun, 7.45pm
Main Auditorium
£5
Following a successful pilot last Spring, scratch night Outside Eyes returns to our main house space.
If you have a performance in your head that needs working out in front of an audience, then Outside
Eyes is the place for you. Each event presents a curated selection of brand new ideas from artists of
all disciplines to an audience made up of peers, industry and anyone who wants to see the newest,
most exciting work Glasgow has to offer. Get involved at http://tron.co.uk/creative/OutsideEyes.
Tron Lab
Each Lab involves a one-week residency in the Tron’s Changing House for the selected artist, with
support beyond the residency week itself to begin taking the steps towards wherever their project
needs to go next, whether that be finding funding for further development, or finding partners for
future touring. Both residencies will take place in in March 2016, and the deadline for applications is
15th January 2016. For more information and specific dates head to http://tron.co.uk/creative/tronlab.
The Progressive Playwright Award
Thur 14 Jan, 7.45pm
£5
Main Auditorium
A panel of judges and the audience will award a £2000 bursary to one of the six twenty minute plays
progressed from our Autumn ’15 season.
Thu 23-Sat 25 Jun, 8pm
£5
Changing House
First draft reading of the full length work by the writer selected in January as the recipient of The
Progressive Playwright Award.
The Progressive Playwright
Thur 17 Mar, Thur 14 Apr & Thu 26 May, 8pm
£5
Changing House
The Progressive Playwright returns with reading of plays from up-and-coming playwrights. Each
evening, extracts from six plays will be read, with the night culminating in the audience voting for the
play that they would like to hear an extended version of at the next event. Themes for this season’s
events are:
LOVE
Directed by Alison Peebles
Submission deadline: 22 February
JEALOUSY
Directed by Allie Butler
Submission deadline: 28 March
DECEIT
Directed by Katherine Nesbitt
Submission deadline: 2 May
Script submissions to [email protected]
Submission guidelines can be found at http://tron.co.uk/creative/progplaywright
Preview
We are proud to present two new works in Preview, from artists who came to us through the Outside
Eyes and Tron Lab strands with ideas for projects that blew our socks clean off.
Little King in preview with Tron Creative presents
GREATER BELFAST
Wed 17 – Sat 20 Feb, 8pm
£7.50
Changing House
Part gig, part theatre experience, Greater Belfast is centred on the hopeful and divided city of Belfast.
Little King and his string quartet blend song, storytelling, spoken word and instrumental music to
examine a fractious relationship between a city and one of its sons. Expect the patter and slang of
Belfast, the caustic black humour of Belfast, all bent together to inspire stories and songs that cut
through the sleech, and speak to the heart.
Written, composed and performed by Matt Regan
Directed by Claire Willoughby
Supported by Creative Scotland
Isobel McArthur in preview with Tron Creative presents
HOW TO SING IT
Wed 8 – Sat 11June, 8pm
£7.50
Changing House
‘Embdy here belongs tae Glesca?’
‘Embdy no sure where they belong?’
Isobel has been on a journey. With herself. With a voice that travels between Manchester and
Glasgow more regularly than a Virgin Pendolino, Isobel (and Isobel) are determined to find out
whether accent matters and if how you say it holds more sway than what you’re saying.
Told onstage and onscreen, How To Sing It explores the turmoil in rewriting the music of our voices.
Written and performed by Isobel McArthur
Playwrights’ Studio Scotland presents
TALKFEST
Mon 18 – Sat 23 April, times vary
Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland returns to the Tron to develop and celebrate the work of Scotland’s
playwrights. These range from aspiring dramatists writing for the stage for the first time, to some of
our most experienced professional playwrights. The Tron’s spaces will be packed with new
playwriting in the form of rehearsed readings, discussions, master classes, workshops, script
surgeries and networking opportunities.
Make connections with others who share your passion for playwriting. Learn new skills, hone your
craft and be the first to see brand new work by Scotland’s playwrights.
More details about public performances and how to get involved will be announced soon at
www.playwrightsstudio.co.uk
VIC BAR
SUNDAY JAZZ
In the Victorian Bar
Relax and enjoy chamber jazz of the highest quality as award-winning pianist/composer Euan
Stevenson (Emerging Artist Scottish Jazz Awards 2013) hosts another season of Sunday Jazz at the
Tron.
Sun 31 Jan, 2pm
£8
New Focus Quartet
Blending jazz with classical and Scottish folk influences, saxophonist Konrad Wiszniewski and
pianist/composer Euan Stevenson collaborate with a top rhythm section to create joyous music that
is "lush, modern and brilliantly accessible" (BBC Radio Scotland).
Sun 28 Feb, 2pm
£8
Relaxin’ at Camarillo
Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell were pioneers of the Be Bop movement. Join The
Euan Stevenson trio and special guests as they pay homage to these late masters with authentic
arrangements from the forties and fifties.
Sun 27 March, 2pm
£8
Remembering Chet
Many Chet Baker tributes celebrate the trumpet playing of the man but rarely do you get that
combined with his vocal talent too. Three of Scotland’s finest musicians join forces to bring the music
of the man to life. Colin Steele, one of Scotland’s best trumpeters, sublime piano accompaniment of
Euan Stevenson and smooth vocals of Iain Ewing combine to produce something truly magical. Wellrespected in their own right, expect something of a different class from this trio. Transport yourself
back in time to a smoky jazz joint for some beautifully laid back, west coast jazz.
Sun 24 April, 2pm
£8
Anything Goes: The Music of Cole Porter
Unlike many successful Broadway composers, Porter wrote the lyrics, as well as the music, for his
songs. The Euan Stevenson Trio perform their own unique arrangements of timeless hits such as
Easy To Love, I’ve Got You Under My Skin and I Get a Kick Out of You with additional surprise guest
vocalists.
Sun 29 May, 2pm
£8
Tribute to Jobim/Getz
Widely known as the composer of The Girl From Ipanema, one of the most recorded songs of all
time, Jobim left a large number of songs that are now included in jazz and pop standard repertoires.
An innovator in his use of sophisticated harmony and melody in popular song, his music, often
wrongly classed as little more than elevator music, demands closer listening.
Sun 26 June, 2pm
£8
Jazz Piano Duos
Expect keyboard fireworks, telepathic interplay and virtuosic interpretations of classic standards and
original compositions.
THE SEVEN SONG CLUB
Continuing our season of live acoustic sets in the Vic Bar, The Seven Song Club present:
Fri 15 Jan, 8.30pm
£7.50
Magic Lantern Show/Paul Alger Band/The Cinnamon Girls
Fri 5 Feb, 8.30pm
£7.50
Haight Ashbury/Sister John/La Dee Dah
Fri 18 Mar, 8.30pm
£7.50
Lola in Slacks/everywhere/Alan Tennie
Thu 31 Mar, 8.30pm
£7.50
Colour of Whisky/Helen Reeves Trio/Tam T Cameron
Fri 8 April, 8.30pm
£7.50
Tenement and Temple/Lorraine Wilson
Fri 6 May, 8.30pm
£7.50
Honey and the Herbs plus special guests
Thu 19 May, 8.30pm
£7.50
Strange Blue Dreams/Harry and the Hendersons
Fri 17 June, 8.30pm
£7.50
Sporting Hero and the Gracious Losers/Hellfire Club
FOLKIFY
Wed 27 Jan, 24 Feb, 30 Mar, 27 April, 18 May & 22 June, 8.30pm
£7.50
Folk for folk. Hosts Sandy Nelson and Morna Young invite you to join them for an evening of
‘folked up’ acoustic music. From rock to R&B, the duo, plus special guests and friends, will present a
new spin on your favourite songs plus an array of new writing talent. Join us for a relaxed evening of
music plus audience participation.
Phamie Gow
Thu 14 April, 8:30pm
£10.00
International musician, composer, singer/songwriter and recording artist Phamie Gow is reknowned
for her innovative and groundbreaking playing and compositions for the celtic lever harp, and her
new piano compositions are recognized as creating a new sound in the celtic/classical crossover
world. A regular on Classic FM, Phamie is currently Caffe Nero’s number 1 most-played artist and
was awarded The Kindred Spirit Award for Music in 2015.
COMEDY NEW WRITING
Comedy In Progress invites audiences to enjoy some of the best names in professional comedy
working through new material, from stand up to sketches, radio shows to TV pitches. If it’s comedy
then it comes here before it goes in front of anyone else! So if you love laughing or you like being the
person that says ‘I saw them when…’, then this is the night for you.
Thu 4 Feb, 8.30pm
£7.50
Jellybean Martinez & Andrew Learmonth
Thu 3 March, 8.30pm
£7.50
Jamie Dalgleish, Chris Forbes & Mark Nelson
Thu 7 Apr, 8.30pm
£7.50
Vladamir McTavish
Thu 5 May, 8.30pm
£7.50
Marc Jennings & John Robertson
Thu 2 June, 8.30pm
£7.50
Mark Nelson
POETRY SLAMS
Scottish Slam Championships
Sat 13 Feb, 7.45pm
Main Auditorium
£7.50
Slam poetry is the wild child of literature and a poetry slam is an intensely entertaining event.
Competition winning rhymers, rappers, ravers and rhapsodists from across Scotland vie for the
points, the prize money, the kudos of being Scottish Champion and the opportunity to go to Paris
and take part in The World Series. Come along, pick your favourite and cheer them on to glory!
Robin Cairns comperes.
Sunday Stramash
Sun 20 March, 2pm
£7 (includes soup and bread)
The ancient Scottish art of flyting has been dormant long enough. In this afternoon session ranters
and poets will speak out against their own pet hates. They may be as pugnacious and personal as
they like – on subjects ranging from the political to the frankly petty! However, they will be answered
immediately by our panel of objectionable contrarians – one of whom will come back with a series of
withering retorts. The floor will run crimson from the wounds of the injured! And the audience will
decide the winner of each bout. If you have a warm and affectionate fellow-feeling for all mankind
this is not the event for you. Come and have a go if you think you’re bard enough! Robin Cairns
comperes.
Sunday Slam
Sun 22 May, 2pm
£7 (includes soup and bread)
Poets punky, poets passionate and poets … well, poetic will take part in an afternoon competition. A
panel of judges will score them on poem, performance and audience reaction. Someone will go away
triumphant. Come along and cheer on your favourite as they progress through the rounds. Robin
Cairns comperes.
Interested in taking part? Contact [email protected].
MOON COUNTRY
In this new season, Peter Arnott presents more entertaining and challenging new writing. With a
musical guest to open and close, each performance will showcase one of five exciting new pieces of
work as well as deliver another instalment from Moon Country itself.
Clown Country by George Docherty
Wed 17 Feb, 8.30pm
£7.50
Mother Ease by Molly Innes
Wed 23 March, 8.30pm
£7.50
The Door by Vlad Buccea
Wed 20 April, 8.30pm
£7.50
Doge’s Palace by Kevin Carr
Wed 25 May, 8.30pm
£7.50
A Rabbit, A Pig & A Whore in a Tiny Red Box by Heloise Thual
Wed 29 June, 8.30pm
£7.50
TRON PARTICIPATION
Tron Participation is the education and outreach strand of the Tron Theatre’s activities, offering a
year-round programme of classes and workshops for all ages, abilities and backgrounds.
Explore. Create. Learn. Enjoy.
Work for Children
Tiny and Tall Tales
Little imaginations. Big adventures.
Tiny and Tall tales are fun-filled storytelling sessions, brought to life with props, movement, music,
percussion and creative play and all carefully designed to stimulate the senses. Workshops help your
little one with physical, social, emotional and language development while encouraging their
imagination to flourish. Best of all you get to join in too!
Tiny Tales
10.30am (babies and crawlers)
Tall Tales
11.30am (walking independently up to 3yrs)
Classes run weekly on Saturdays during term time:
23 January – 18 June
£5 per class
Ticket admits 1 child and accompanying parent/carers (maximum 2 adults per ticket)
Skillshops
Drama classes for children and young people. Let your imagination take you on the most amazing
journey where everything is possible!
Term 1: 23 January –26 March
Term 2: 23 April – 18 June (excl. 28 May)
Juniors (4 – 6yrs)
Saturdays, 1pm – 2pm
£60/£50 per term
Seniors (7-10yrs)
Saturdays, 2.30pm-4.30pm
£75/£65 per term
WORK FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Tron Youth Theatre
Learn about the world of theatre through creative workshops, rehearsals and performance projects
as well as seeing professional productions.
Monday 25/Wednesday 27 Jan – Mon 20/Wed 22 June (excl. school holidays)
YT Junior (11-13 yrs) Wednesdays 6.30-8.30pm
£150/£135 (Payable in 3 instalments of £50/£45 due Dec ’15, March & May ’16)
YT Senior (14-17 yrs) Mondays 6.30-8.30pm
£150/£135 (Payable in 3 instalments of £50/£45 due Dec ’15, March & May ’16)
TRON YOUTH THEATRE NEEDS YOU – now recruiting performers for two main stage productions
in 2016. Email [email protected] for more info.
Youth Theatre Juniors present
IMAGINE THAT!
Thu 9 – Sat 11 June, 7.30pm
£8
Main Auditorium
Telling stories comes naturally doesn’t it?
Remember the time when…
You’re never going to believe what happened…
Did I tell you about….?
Guess where I went this weekend….?
But what if the tales you’re telling are about something that isn’t real? Is your story a lie or just a
piece of entertainment? Tron Youth Theatre Juniors explore the stories we spin and the imaginary
characters we dream up and wonder if what’s in our heads is more interesting than real life?
Youth Theatre Seniors present
PUSHING IT
Thu 7 – Sat 9 April, 7.30pm
£8
Main Auditorium
Dos and don’ts. Homework guidelines. School regulations. Rules of the house. Curfews. Parental
regimes. Boundaries. If it’s an adult’s job to set them, is it our job to test them? Breaking them,
bending them, stretching them, twisting them. Nudging them, poking them, struggling to cope with
them. Are we all just at it? No, we’re just pushing it.
Work for Adults
Tron Studio
Tron Studio is our adult community drama company where members meet regularly throughout the
year for skills development workshops, as well as to attend theatre performances and create their
own work. Working with director Fraser MacLeod, the group will devise a new show to be staged
during Mayfesto 2016.
Tuesdays 7-9pm
26 Jan – 24 May
£180/£150 concession per block
Payable in 3 instalments of £60/£50 due Dec ’15, March & May ‘16
Costume and Set Design Level 2
This practical course follows on from Level 1, using the techniques learned to explore in more detail
ideas around colour, shape, tone and mood. The Level 2 course is directly linked to a main stage
production and participants will be given the opportunity to gain hands-on experience progressing a
design from model box to stage. The cours is a mix of theory, discussion and practical activity and is
suitable for:
 Individuals who have completed Set & Costume Design Level 1
 Artists with an interest in theatre design and looking to expand their practice.
 Individuals with some design experience
Wed 27 Jan – Wed 30 March (10 taught sessions)
£100/£90 concession (includes all materials)
For further information please contact Lisa Keenan. Education Manager [email protected]
or book directly with box office on 0141 552 4267
GET INTO BED WITH THE TRON – for as little as £10 a month
The Tron prides itself on delivering brilliant contemporary theatre for the people of Glasgow, Scotland
and beyond as well as being a creative hub for the Scottish theatre community. We need your help
to continue to deliver the high quality programmes of work that our theatre community and audiences
alike deserve.
Tron Theatre is a registered charity and we receive a public subsidy which covers just half of our
operating cost. Our aim is to raise an additional £1 for every £1 of public funding we receive. You can
support Tron Theatre and its future by subscribing as a Tron Patron.
Patrons are the life and soul of Tron Theatre and for as little as £10 a month you can make a real
difference to what we do whilst also enjoying a range of benefits including invites to exclusive Patron
events, opportunities to attend Q & A sessions, discounts on tickets and meals and a £20 voucher of
hair and beauty salon Belle and Blackley for all new Patrons.
So climb in, we’d love you to join us!
To become a Patron please call our box office on 0141 552 4267 or email [email protected]
For more information contact our Development Team on 0141 559 5304
BAR + KITCHEN
Where you’re always welcome….
We’ve had great feedback on our new look and new menus and Head Chef Mark McKenzie and his
team continue to create interesting and flavoursome fare using fresh, local ingredients. As well as
updating the menus for the Spring/Summer season, we’ve introduced a series of free events in the
Vic Bar to complement the existing programme of music. So whether you like comedy or acoustic
sessions, spoken word or Irish trad music, drop by, grab a beer (from our recently installed West
kegerator) and enjoy.
Tron Bar & Kitchen becomes the place to be on a Sunday, with brunch from 11am featuring classics
like Eggs Benedict and Eggs Florentine. And for those who prefer a heartier meal, our head chef is
now roasting a delicious cut of Aberdeen Angus every week for the classic Sunday lunch.
We’ve extended food service on Friday and Saturday evenings until 10pm so if you’ve no plans to
see a theatre show, you can enjoy our evening menu at a more leisurely pace. If you do have tickets
for a show however, we’re continuing to offer a 10% reduction on all pre-theatre food*. Do book
ahead though, online or by calling 0141 552 8587 to ensure that we can get you wined and dined
ahead of the show.
For menus, more information on our free events or to make a reservation visit:
http://www.tron.co.uk/food-drink/ or call 0141 552 8587
*Subject to availability. Discount only applies on date shown on purchased tickets. Not available
between 27.11.15 and 04.01.16
SUPPORT
The Tron gratefully acknowledges support from:
FUNDERS
Creative Scotland, Glasgow City Council
SPONSORS
Belhaven Best
TRUSTS AND FOUNDATIONS
The WM Mann Foundation, The Hugh Fraser Foundation, Merchant’s House
Trust Glasgow, The Big Lottery.
SUPPORTERS
The Scottish Council for Development and Industry, Page\Park
TRON ANGELS
Archangel – Ashley Jensen, Heather MacLaren, Mark Smith, Debbie McDougall,
Sonia Raphael, Laura and John Macguire Elliot, AS Scaffolding Limited
PATRONS
Maureen Aitken, Steve Ansell, Susan Binns, Denis Boner, Kati Byrne,
Jacqueline Calderwood, Stewart & Frankie Coulter, Jean Couper CBE, Allan
Cowan, Dhyani Crawford, Elizabeth Degnan, Louise Dingwall, Angela
Donoghue, Penny Forshaw, Lauren Galloway, Jim Hamilton, Marie Hand, Jim
Hayle, Anne Hogg, Susan Hunt, Eleanor Hyland, Lesley Inglis, Lorraine Inglis,
Ruth Johnston, John and Agnese Keeper, Isabella Kilgannon, Peter Lawson,
Jonathan Lister, Andrew Lockyear, Louise McCarthy, Colin McCredie, Fiona
McDonald, Frank McGoldrick, Margaret Ann McGoldrick, Fraser McLeod,
Heather MacLaren, Tommy Macleod, Iain and Alison Michael, Gary Morrison,
Helen Morton, Lionel Most, Bill and Gillian Neish, Ruth Ogston, Stuart Oliphant,
Helen O’Neil, Noelle O’Rourke, Alice Orr, Liam Paterson, Angela and Euan
Petrie, Raymond Prendergast, Tonia Quarell, Nuala Quinn, Elizabeth Reid,
Fraser Reid, Jean Reid, Eleanor Roberts, Eleanor Rutherford, Jenny Ryall,
Catherine Steel, Morag Shearlaw, Irene and Fred Shedden, Ida ShusterBerkeley, William Scott, Mandy Stewart, Gail Sunter, William Turner, Ian
Watson, Robert Way, Steven Way, Andy and Sandra West, Marie Wilkinson, Iris
Williamson.
CORPORATE PARTNERS
AFS, Alliance Wine, DPI Broadway, EVM, JamHot, Z Hotel, West, Robertson
Taylor W&P Longreach, Belle & Blackley Hair & Beauty.
If you are interested in playing a vital role in the Tron’s future call 0141 559
5304.
Tron Theatre Ltd is a Scottish Registered Charity No: SCO12081
FIND US
The Tron can be easily spotted on Trongate by the old steeple with the blue
clock face. Entrance to the theatre and bar is on Chisholm Street.
SUBWAY
The nearest subway station is St Enoch
TRAIN
The Tron is a 10 minute walk from Glasgow Central or Queen Street: 3 minutes
from Argyle Street and 5 minutes from High Street
BUS
The Tron is on the many bus routes and the nearest stops are on Trongate and
Osborne Street
PARKING
Nearby carparks include King Street NCP and Albion Street Q Park. Blue Badge
parking is available on Chisholm Street.
For more information on getting to the Tron visit: travelinescotland.com
TRON.CO.UK