EK Events Jan-Apr 2016
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East Kilbride Arts Centre and Village Theatre January to April 2016 events programme Arts Café The Arts Café offers a range of bar snacks and beverages in the pleasant surroundings of the Arts Centre. Open daily from 11am until 6pm. Last food orders 5.30pm. For further information and menu options contact the Arts Centre on 01355 261 000. How to get here Train from Glasgow Central Station to East Kilbride Buses No 6, 20, 31 or 18 from Glasgow, 201 from Hamilton © Crown copyright and database right 2012. All rights reserved 100020730 Venues How to book Payment can be made in person by cash, cheque or East Kilbride Arts Centre most major credit / debit cards. Telephone reservations Old Coach Road can also be paid by credit / debit card or by cheque. East Kilbride G74 4DU Every effort has been made to ensure that the Phone: 01355 261 000 information contained here is accurate at the time of Fax: 01355 261 280 going to print. However the programme is subject to Email: [email protected] change without notice. ook on l B i n Box offi ce opening times Online bookings e Monday - Sunday 9am – 8.45pm Tickets for most shows are also available to book online, please visit us at www.sllcboxoffi ce.co.uk Customer feedback The Village Theatre We are always looking for feedback from our customers; Maxwell Drive you can provide us with your comments and suggestions East Kilbride G74 4HG by completing a comments form when you’re next in Phone: 01355 261 000 either venue or by contacting us by phone, post or email. Phone: 01355 248 669 (performance evenings only) Email: [email protected] Box offi ce opening times Saturday 10am – 3pm Evenings 7pm – 9pm (performance evenings only) Special access requirements Access to the upper fl oor of both venues is via lift. The Arts Centre Studio Theatre and Village Theatre both have an induction loop system. To access this facility, please switch your hearing aid to the ‘T’ position. Advance notice for wheelchair bookings is required as spaces are limited at both venues. Parking There are limited car parking spaces at both venues. Patrons are advised to arrive early to avoid disappointment. Arts classes and courses Contact our box offi ce to request a copy of our current Arts Courses, Classes and Workshops brochure or to fi nd out more about our Arts Development team. Hire of the venues The Arts Centre is available to hire for functions, meetings and performances, whilst the Village Theatre offers hirers the opportunity to perform in a traditional theatre setting. For more information on hiring our Venues please Facebook contact the Arts Centre 01355 261 000. South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture has a facebook page for parents of pre-school and primary school children. The page provides updates about the fantastic range of activities we provide from sports and arts sessions to shows, workshops and story times. events East Kilbride Arts Centre Beats and Pieces present Rovin Productions present The Musical Box Burns! Your Bard, By The Way Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 January Friday 29 January 2016 / 8.00pm 2016 / 7.30pm £10.00 / £8.00 concession £8.00 / £6.00 concession ‘BURNS! (Your Bard, By the Way)’ is an original, Everyone loves a good musical, so exciting portrayal of the life of Robert Burns. Two could there be anything better than actors play many of the characters who shaped the experiencing several in one night? poet’s life and works, moving seamlessly across age, gender and class. Hilarious comedy contrasts Whether you want to be a dancing with heart-rending tragedy, interwoven with queen with Mamma Mia or defy beautiful song. gravity with Wicked, this musical variety show is the one for you. With a dialogue in rhyming Scots, and It promises to be a night of featuring some of Burns’ amazing song and dance with a few best-loved poems, laughs along the way. Defi nitely including a dramatic not one to be missed! recital of Tam o’ Shanter, there’s plenty here for the Burns enthusiast as well as the newcomer. inverse Saturday 6 February 2016 / 7.45pm Saturday 30 April 2016 / 7.45pm £8.00 Inverse are back and the Sound of the Underground continues after their sell out success in June and October of last year. Expect much of the same as the inverse team line up continues with the usual residents plus special guests and surprises from well respected Scottish Underground Dance labels on the bill. So, if you like the sound of the Subby, Club 69 or the Arches and were lucky enough to attend the fi rst 2 shows then this is the night for you. Come down and hear the latest tracks played by local DJs on their own patch - no need for expensive taxis into town for this top night! Book early as this will sell out!! TADA Productions in association with South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture Ltd present The Vagina Monologues Directed by Liam Dolan Starring May Miller, Cat Harvey and Michelle McManus. Tuesday 9 – Wednesday 10 February 2016 / 8.00pm £15.00 Dramatically funny, tender and provocative are the monologues of ‘our girls’. Young and old, married and single, heterosexual, bisexual and lesbian, our girls know their vaginas but do the men? Supporting LGBT Health & Well Being a unique community initiative that promotes the health and wellbeing of LGBTQI people in Scotland. This event supports The Underground Jam Saturday 13 February 2016 / 8.00pm £10.00 / £8.00 concession “A raw and authentic sound that takes you right back to 1977” Now considered to be one of Britain’s top tribute bands, The Underground Jam nail the raw energy and sound of The Jam’s early punk roots as well as encapsulating songs from their full back catalogue. A night not to be missed for the avid Jam fan and anyone who is familiar with their chart material. Book early to avoid disappointment! Kid’s Sunday Magic Show Inspire Theatre Nothing up my sleeve A Streetcar Named Desire Written by Tennessee Williams Sunday 21 February 2016 / 1.00pm Thursday 25 – Friday 26 February 2016 / 8.00pm Sunday 3 April 2016 / 1.00pm £10.00 / £8.00 concession £5.00 all seats One of Tennessee Williams most renowned works Douglas Cameron presents his latest magical following the troubled former schoolteacher wonders for all the family in this fun, interactive Blanche DuBois as she leaves small-town Mississippi show. Despite making things vanish and appear, he and moves in with her sister, Stella Kowalski, and is able to do this with ‘nothing up his sleeves’. her husband, Stanley, in New Orleans. Blanche’s As always he will need some assistance from his fl irtatious Southern-belle presence causes problems audience to share in the fun that ensues during the for Stella and Stanley, who already have a volatile course of this magic fi lled performance. relationship, leading to even greater confl ict in the Kowalski household. Laughs and amazement guaranteed. Suitable for ages 3 to 10 Mosa Funk Club Saturday 5 March 2016 / 8.00pm £7.00 / £5.00 concession The Mosa Funk Club is a funky communications collective, straight from the heart of the East End of Glasgow, with a fi erce ambition and a commitment to keeping rhythm, rhyme and soul at the forefront of their agenda. Firstly, a word of advice, if your idea of funk begins and ends with the theme tune from Shaft, retro silver hot pants or Huggy Bear’s latest strides, forget it: this is the genuine article - musical tourists and posturing scenesters out for the next shallow trend to follow need not apply. Past performances include Support Slots for the likes of Electro-meister Midge Ure, chart busting Goldie Lookin’ Chain and Mercury Prize-winner Ms. Dynamite, jazz-funk faves The James Taylor Quartet, Crazy P and Fertile Ground. Pure Unadulterated Durty Phunk Check website for more details mosafunkclub.co.uk Studio 32 present An Evening with Phil Differ The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Friday 18 March 2016 / 8.00pm By Jay Presson Allen £10.00 / £8.00 concession Adapted from the novel by Muriel Spark Comedy writer, Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 March 2016 / 7.30pm producer, director and £9.00 / £7.00 concession comedian Phil Differ presents an evening Miss Brodie is a teacher, a formidable fi gure who of two halves. In the moulds young minds to her “set”. She is so intensely fi rst, standup comedy interesting that the girls admire her above all else. But and in the second, Miss Brodie is not honest. She procrastinates and then showbiz tales from a tells the girls to do as she tells them, not as she does career spanning thirty herself. She is having an affair with the music teacher fi ve years. In his own inimitable laid back style, and has had one with the art teacher, and this is not Phil reminisces on his misspent youth, discusses the the most exemplary conduct. problems of being a middle-aged man trapped in a 20 year olds body and reveals how you go from being a failed accounts clerk with British Telecom to becoming Senior Producer in BBC Scotland’s Comedy Unit and being part of the team responsible for such television shows as Naked Video, City Lights, Rab C. Nesbitt, Scotch and Wry and Only an Excuse? So, what’s it like working with comedy icons like Rikki Fulton? Who is the funniest of all the performers he has encountered? What might be the pitfalls of fi lming in Cumbernauld Town Centre with Robbie Coltrane dressed as the Pope? Tonight Phil will reveal all..