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Home Nations Festival Listings, Glasgow, Summer 2014

Home Nations Festival Listings

Tron Theatre Company presents
Under Milk Wood

Thursday 17th July – Saturday 19th July

7.45pm (+ 2.30pm 19th + 20th)
AD & BSL 19th July, 2.30pm
Tickets: £12 (£8)
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk
Dylan Thomas’s timeless masterpiece is brought to life in a raucous new staging with searing live folk music directed by Gareth Nicholls. An official Festival 2014 event.

Masterclasses with the Makar: Writing

Sunday 20th July

2.45pm
Tickets: £15 (advance booking essential)
Education Suite
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk
Work with the Scots Makar, Liz Lochhead to develop your writing skills in this two and a half hour session. An official Festival 2014 event.

Theatr Iolo presents
Grimm Tales

Tuesday 22nd July

2.00pm
Tickets: £2 (£1)
Drumchapel Community Centre
320 Kinfauns Drive, Glasgow G15 7HA
0141 276 0560
Playful, mischievous and deliciously scary fairy tales for all the family. An official Festival 2014 event.

Theatr Iolo presents
Grimm Tales

Wednesday 23rd July

12.00pm
Tickets: £2 (£1)
Bellcraig Community Centre
10 Gorstan Street, Glasgow G32 5QA
0141 945 2710
Playful, mischievous and deliciously scary fairy tales for all the family. An official Festival 2014 event.

Theatr Iolo presents
Grimm Tales

Thursday 24th July

12.00pm
Tickets: £2 (£1)
Castlemilk Community Centre
121 Castlemilk Drive, Glasgow G45 9UG
0141 634 2233
Playful, mischievous and deliciously scary fairy tales for all the family. An official Festival 2014 event.

Tron Theatre Company presents
Edwin Morgan’s Dreams & Other Nightmares

Thursday 24th – Saturday 2nd August

7.45pm (2.30pm 26th July + 2nd August)
CAP 29 July, 7.45pm
BSL + AD 2nd August, 2.30pm
Tickets: £12 (£8)
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

From his nursing home in Glasgow’s West End, an elderly Edwin Morgan recounts a series of vivid nightmares to his carer James, a reluctant interpreter/psychiatrist/amateur Freudian, trapped in his task. An official Festival 2014 event.

Tron Theatre Company presents
Beowulf (A Dramatic Reading)

Thursday 24th July – Saturday 2nd August

8pm (2.45pm 26th July + 2nd August)
BSL 30 July, 8pm
CAP 2 Aug, 2.45pm
Tickets: £12 (£8)
Changing House
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Seamus Heaney’s lyrical and musical translation of one of the greatest Anglo-Saxon poem of all time is a truly epic drama. An official Festival 2014 event.

Tron Theatre Company presents
An Evening of Performance Poetry with Liz Lochhead

Thursday 24th July & Saturday 2nd August

9pm
Tickets: £5
Victorian Bar
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Liz Lochhead presides over an evening of performance poetry, where she’ll introduce a host of writers and performers currently taking the world of performance poetry by storm.

Theatr Iolo presents
Grimm Tales

Friday 25th July

2.00pm
Tickets: £3 (£2)
Barlanark Community Centre
33 Burnmouth Road, Glasgow G33 4RZ
0141 773 1812

Playful, mischievous and deliciously scary fairy tales for all the family. An official Festival 2014 event.

Newsboy

Friday 25th July

9.15pm
Tickets: £5
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Living newspaper event designed to challenge and provoke people about what the Commonwealth means to them in 2014. Created and produced by Matthew Knights and Rosanna Hall. An official Festival 2014 event.

Musical Interludes

26th, 29th, 30th & 31st July, 1st and 2nd August
3.30pm – 6.30pm
Free (un-ticketed)
Tron Bar
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Free live music in the bar showcasing the musical virtuosity of some of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s best students. An official Festival 2014 event.

Building Tour

26th, 29th, 30th & 31st July, 1st and 2nd August
4.30pm
Free but ticketed
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Explore behind the scenes at the Tron and learn how it evolved from a Church to one of Scotland’s best known and deeply loved theatres. An official Festival 2014 event.

Amy Hawthorn

Saturday 26th July
9pm
Tickets: £7.50
Victorian Bar
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Smouldering jazz in the Vic Bar from up-and-coming chanteuse Amy Hawthorn. An official Festival 2014 event.

Theatr Iolo presents
Grimm Tales

Sunday 27th July – Friday 1st August
2.30pm
BSL + AD 31 July, 2.30pm
Tickets: £8 (Family of 3 – £21; Family of 4 – £28)
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Playful, mischievous and deliciously scary fairy tales for all the family. An official Festival 2014 event.

Masterclass with the Makar: Performance Poetry

Sunday 27th July
2.45pm
Tickets: £15 (advance booking essential)
Education Suite
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Work with the Scots Makar, Liz Lochhead to develop your performance poetry skills in this two and a half hour session. An official Festival 2014 event.

Tron Theatre Company & The Empire Cafe present
The Lamplighter (Rehearsed Reading followed by Q&A)

Sunday 27th July

5pm
Tickets: £7
Changing House
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Jackie Kay’s The Lamplighter takes us on a journey through the dark heart of slavery. This rehearsed reading, directed by Alison Peebles, will be followed by a Q&A and free copies of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Poetry Anthology will be distributed. An official Festival 2014 event.

The Seven Song Club presents The Modests

Sunday 27th July

8.30pm
Tickets: £5
Victorian Bar
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Four-piece rock’n’roll band influenced by many artists ranging from The Pixies to Jeff Buckley. Winners of the Glasgow 2012 City Sounds Competition. An official Festival 2014 event.

Rally & Broad presents
Poetry Slam (Heats)

Tuesday 29th July

9.15pm
Tickets: £5
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Scottish cabaret duo Rally and Broad present their first ever Commomwealth Poetry Slam, with performance poets and spoken word artists battling it out for a place in the final. An official Festival 2014 event.

Rally & Broad presents
Poetry Slam (Final)

Wednesday 30th July

9.15pm
Tickets: £5
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Scottish cabaret duo Rally and Broad present the final of their first ever Commonwealth Poetry Slam, with performance poets and spoken word artists from the heats doing their utmost to win the coveted title of Slam champion. An official Festival 2014 event.

New Playwriting: Responses to the Commonwealth

Thursday 31st July

9.15pm
Tickets: £5
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Rehearsed readings of new work in response to the athletes, events, sports, politics and scandals of the Commonwealth Games since 1930.

Calum Ingram

Friday 1st August
9pm
Tickets: £7.50
Victorian Bar
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Scots-born Calum Ingram has spent the past five years studying at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in Manhattan and will perform material from his debut solo album Making it Possible. An official Festival 2014 event.

Scarecrows, Superworm & The Gruffalo with Julia Donaldson

Sunday 3rd August

11am & 2.30pm
Tickets: £8/£6
Main Auditorium
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Award-winning author Julia Donaldson and her husband Malcolm launch Julia’s brand-new picture book The Scarecrows’ Wedding. With book signings after each performance. An official Festival 2014 event.

Home Nations Festival Closing Party

Sunday 3rd August

7.30pm
Tickets: Free
Tron Theatre
0141 552 4267
www.tron.co.uk

Come and celebrate the end of the Tron’s Home Nations Festival and the Commonwealth Games across the building. With live music in the Vic Bar. An official Festival 2014 event.

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