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Dateline:
28th December, 2010
Spring and Summer at the Traverse
In the new season at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre, the main in-house
production is a new play by Rona Munro:
Pandas
By Rona Munro
19 April - 7 May (previews 15 - 17 April)
A young couple are sitting together, overlooking the Meadows. They’re
talking about possibilities. Lin Han and Jie-Hui have exchanged 536
emails and 72 JPGS but have only just met. She’s very sure that
Jie-Hui’s the man she could fall in love with, if only he’d
do it first.
Jie-Hui’s an entrepreneur. When his business partner gets shot,
the stock goes missing and the trading company is stolen by his partner’s
girlfriend, things start to get awfully complicated. Especially when
he realises his heart is broken.
Madeleine finds herself in a compromising situation with James, the
most attractive man she’s met in years. And the feeling seems
to be mutual. It’s a pity he’s the policeman questioning
her about the mysterious shooting of her ex-boyfriend, a dodgy importer
of Chinese rugs.
And what do love, lust and broken hearts mean to pandas?
Visiting productions include:
The Beckett Trilogy: Molloy, Malone Dies & The Unnamable
Produced by Irish company the Gare St Lazare Players
21 & 22 January
Girl X
Text by Pol Heyvaert, Robert Softley & Bart Capelle
National Theatre of Scotland
5 – 13 March (preview 4 March)
Eleven year old Maggie Mills has severe cerebral palsy and the mental
age of a 5-month old infant. Her condition will not and cannot change
or improve.
Her mother believes that the physical changes that accompany adolescence
can only bring distress and requests that surgeons remove her daughter’s
womb.
The Mills case is examined from the point of view of the onlookers,
a Greek chorus that asks what could or should happen next. Performer
and disabled rights activist Robert Softley challenges this chorus
and the heartwrenching, highly contested ethical issues that surround
the case. When do private matters become public concern? Is the majority
always right? Where will it all end?
Somersaults
By Iain Finlay MacLeod
National Theatre of Scotland
10 – 19 March
Questions of identity, belonging and a sense of self are universal,
no matter what language you speak.
Cambridge graduate James has it all: wealth, a beautiful wife, a swanky
London flat. But when the creditors move in and his wife moves out,
James suddenly finds he’s left with nothing. Nothing but words,
and even they are starting to slip away.
James’ father is dying – his last connection to his childhood,
his upbringing and the language of his birth, Gaelic. With this link
gone, James fears he will simply cease to exist. Forced to confront
his past and the conflict of identity within him, James explores the
importance of language and how it defines who we are.
Performed in English and Gaelic
Smalltown
By D. C. Jackson, Johnny McKnight
& Douglas Maxwell
Random Accomnplice
24 – 26 March
Letters from America
Choreographers Kate Weare & Benjamin Levy
Scottish Dance Theatre
31 March & 1 April
Caged
By Catherine Wheels Theatre Company
31 March & 1 April
Around the World in 80 days
By Bengt Ahlfors, based on the novel by Jules Verne
Lung Ha's Theatre Company
6 & 7 April
Ivan and the Dogs
By Hattie Naylor
ATC and Soho Theatre
21 – 23 April
Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco
By Gary Owen
Tron Theatre Company
1 – 4 June
The Interminable Suicide Of Gregory Church
Written and Performed by Daniel Kitson
19 & 20 May
At Swim-two-birds
By Flann O’Brien, adapted by Jocelyn Clarke
Blue Raincoat Theatre Company
26 – 28 May
Knives in Hens
By David Harrower
National Theatre of Scotland
7 – 12 June (previews 3 – 5 June)
Also in the season are the Imaginate children's theatre festival (9th
- 15th May) and a series of Latin American plays in the A Play, A Pie
and a Pint series (15th February – 19th March), this year run at
the Traverse in association with Òran Mór and the National
Theatre of Scotland.
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