Nominated for an Olivier award when it opened last year, Tarell Alvin McCraney’s acclaimed play is now on a UK tour, with a new cast, new score and new choreography. Set in Louisiana, it tells the story of two brothers – Ogun Size, who runs his own a
uto-repair shop, and his younger brother Oshoosi, just out of prison – united by grief over the loss of their mother.
• Traverse, Edinburgh, 7:30pm, 0131-228 1404
FILM: MAD ABOUT FOOTBALL
The first film in a wide-ranging programme put on by the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival, Mad About Football is an Italian documentary about a soccer team consisting of psychiatric patients, who talk about the stigma they face and how sport is helping them to overcome their illness. The festival’s film programme also includes screenings of Little Miss Sunshine, Lars and The Real Girl and rock documentary Joy Division.
• Filmhouse, Edinburgh, 5:45pm, 0131-228 2688
THEATRE: MARY POPPINS
Cameron Mackintosh’s production of PL Travers’s famous story is now touring the UK after three years on the West End. It has a dream team behind it – screenwriter Julian Fellowes, director Richard Eyre and choreographer Matthew Bourne.
• Playhouse, Edinburgh, 7:30pm, 0870 606 3424
THEATRE: SOMETHING WICKED THIS WAY COMES
Catherine Wheels and the National Theatre of Scotland present this ambitious, eagerly anticipated new stage production of Ray Bradbury’s powerful coming-of-age story, in which 13-year-olds Jim and Will find their lives changed forever when a strange carnival rolls into town.
• Dundee Rep, 7pm, 01382 223530
MUSIC: THE ADS AND FOUND
Two Scottish bands with very different musical agendas are thrown together by The Mill, Miller beer’s new musical programme. Found make artful, sample-heavy electronica. The Ads make harmony-heavy pop. You’ll like at least one of them.
• The Caves, Edinburgh, 7pm. Free tickets available from
www.themill-live.com THEATRE: CHERRY BLOSSOM
The Traverse launches its autumn season with this bilingual show, performed by a Scottish and Polish cast and put together by writer Catherine Grosvenor and director Lorne Campbell. It promises a rich combination of devised, written and verbatim drama about migration.
• Traverse, Edinburgh, 8pm, 0131-228 1404
MUSIC: AMANDA PALMER
The female half of the Dresden Dolls plays a solo gig in support of her solo album, Who Killed Amanda Palmer? (a jokey reference toTwin Peaks), a pared down collection featuring Ben Folds on piano and production duties, and featuring contributions from fellow musical eccentric St Vincent.
• King Tut’s, Glasgow, 8:30pm, 0870 169 0100
FILM: TAKEN
Morally indefensible but outrageously entertaining action fest, in which Liam Neeson stars as a government-trained agent whose daughter is kidnapped by sex traffickers. It’s throat-punching, skull-cracking action all the way as Neeson dons a leather jacket and sets about tearing Paris apart until he finds her.
• Cinemas nationwide. Listings, p50
MUSIC: KILLING JOKE
Ahead of the release of their 13th studio album next year, and following the recent release of a new collection of Peel Sessions, Jaz Coleman and his band of punk pioneers – they have been cited as an influence by Nirvana, Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails and Metallica, among others – set off on another tour.
• ABC, Glasgow, 7pm, 0141-332 2232
VISUAL ART: ALEXANDER GOUDIE
Goudie was a Paisley man born and bred, so his local art gallery is proud to present the biggest show of his work since his death four years ago. Its grand interior seems suited to a man who arguably felt more at home among the traditions of past centuries than his own.
• Paisley Museum and Art Gallery, 10am-5pm, 0141-887 1010
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