Our list of great things to do this week will give you plenty to get on with!
The Straw Chair Gaiety Theatre, Ayr Adam Smith Theatre, Kirkcaldy Wednesday and Thursday
Ayr’s award-winning touring theatre company, Borderline, presents Sue Glover’s renowned play about liberty and love.
In the early 18th Century, 17-year-old Isabel and her minister husband arrive from Edinburgh to the remote island of Hirta on St. Kilda to spread the gospel in the Gaelic-speaking north.
Their stormy start to marriage worsens as they encounter the extraordinary Lady Grange, who’s tortured by a life of abduction and banishment.
Isabel uncovers alarming similarities to her own situation and their intended short stay soon becomes as indefinite as that of Lady Grange.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, Tuesday to Saturday
Winner of seven 2013 Olivier Awards, this highly-acclaimed National Theatre production is on its first-ever nationwide tour.
Based on the award-winning novel by Mark Haddon, this is the story of 15-year-old Christopher, who has an extraordinary brain. While exceptional at maths, he’s ill-equipped to interpret everyday life, so when he falls under suspicion of killing Mrs Shears’ dog, it takes him on a journey that upturns his world.
Joshua Jenkins makes his National Theatre debut as Christopher, while Geraldine Alexander, whose TV work includes Father Brown, Shetland and Taggart, also stars.
Fever Dream: Southside Citizens Theatre, Glasgow Until May 9
High summer in Glasgow’s Southside and a heatwave bears down on the residents of Govanhill, driving them off the streets.
Tensions are running high and fantasy and reality become blurred. Fighting to reclaim their neighbourhood, the lives of a sleep-deprived new parent and his civic-minded wife begin to unravel.
Meanwhile an ambitious Hutchie boy, a pair of young missionaries, a performance artist and her alter ego, and an unscrupulous property manager, are forced to confront their monsters.
Directed by Dominic Hill, this is a surreal comic thriller and a major new production by Glasgow-based writer Douglas Maxwell.
Take That Tuesday to Saturday, SSE Hydro, Glasgow
Britain’s favourite man-band are on their first tour since becoming a threesome.
Jason Orange followed in the footsteps of Robbie Williams last year and now only Gary Barlow, Mark Owen and Howard Donald remain.
Their new album, III, was released in December and the group’s dates at The Hydro are part of a 24-night tour taking in eight cities.
Special guest for the tour will be rising star Ella Henderson, who has already seen her debut single and album reach number one in the UK charts.
The Scaffies Dundee Rep Theatre, Wednesday to Saturday
From the writer of the acclaimed comedy The Berries, Gary Robertson presents another offering of Dundee life in The Scaffies.
It’s 1978 and Britain is experiencing social and political turmoil. For one group of Dundee cleansing workers it’s business as usual, for the time being anyway.
They combat their job of hard graft, sweat, grime and filth with bouts of heavy drinking and merciless exchanges of banter and black humour.
This is working class humour at its raw best, transported straight from the streets to the theatre.
Due to some colourful language, recommended audience age is 16+.
Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen, Tuesday to Saturday
The Mousetrap is famous for being the longest-running show in the history of British theatre and to celebrate more than 60 years on stage, it’s on tour for the first time.
In her own unique style, Agatha Christie created an atmosphere of suspense and an intricate plot where murder lurks around every corner.
Amongst the all-star cast are Karl Howman (Brush Strokes), Bruno Langley (Coronation Street), Eastenders foursome Elizabeth Power, Steven France, Jemma Walker and Clare Wilkie, Graham Seed (The Archers) and Bob Saul, who reprises his West End role as Sgt Trotter.
Elsa and Fred Out Friday
They may have thought their days as romantic leads were over but this comedy’s appeal owes everything to the two octogenarian screen icons in the title roles.
Shirley MacLaine is Elsa, a gregarious retiree who is obsessed with the movie La Dolce Vita, and abides by many of its maxims to live “a life of pleasure.”
Christopher Plummer is Fred, a recently widowed man who is disturbed at being on his own for the first time in years but at the same time insists he wants to be left alone.
The new neighbours share little in common but after Fred gives Elsa the brush off on their initial meeting, she makes a determined effort to teach him to live their remaining life to the full.
Scottish Music: A Vocal Showcase Cumbernauld Theatre, Saturday
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland hosts the world’s only degree programme specialising in Scottish traditional music and has been the alma mater of many of the emerging names of the traditional music scene.
Join some of its rising stars in an odyssey of Scots and Gaelic song in the intimate surroundings of Cumbernauld Theatre.
From the lively to the poignant, the ancient to the contemporary, a capella to richly accompanied, these songs speak to the timelessness and diversity of Scotland’s musical heritage.
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