Critics’ Choices

Published on 06/09/2012 00:00

What to see this week

THEATRE

A Beginning, A Middle And An End

Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Until 8 September; Eastgate Arts Centre, Peebles, 11 September; Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 8-19 September; North Edinburgh Arts, 21-22 September

WE’RE not ageist, are we? 
Yet still, there’s a shock of discovery in the realisation that Scotland’s latest emerging playwright is no less than 73 years old.

Sylvia Dow of Bo’ness has been a life-long theatre enthusiast, as teacher and administrator; but now, she offers her first play, about time, change, and the search for a narrative that makes sense, built around the story - or is it a story? – of a couple called Evelyn and Ade.

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JOYCE MCMILLAN

FILM

To Kill A Mockingbird

Glasgow Film Theatre, 10-13 September

A RARE instance of a film doing justice to a classic piece of literature, To Kill A Mockingbird holds up as a moving evocation of Harper Lee’s Deep South-set tale of a upstanding lawyer defending a black man against a rape charge. Gregory Peck is at his noble best as Atticus Finch,.

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ALISTAIR HARKNESS

VISUAL ART

Edvard Munch: Graphic Works From The Gundersen Collection

Scottish National Gallery Of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Until 23 September

With so much else going on the National Gallery’s exhibition of prints by Edvard Munch may be overlooked. It is, however, a fascinating show.

An inspired print-maker, Munch produced some of his best known images, including the Scream, as prints as well as paintings. Munch often worked directly on print. In consequence no two are the same. This is no ordinary print show, therefore, but a display of unique art works by an artist several of whose images have found a place in our collective imagination.

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DUNCAN MACMILLAN

CLASSICAL

A Night At The Opera

Kelvingrove Art Gallery And Museum, Glasgow, Tomorrow And 8 September

Prepare for a battle of the 19th century operatic giants as Wagner and Verdi go head to head in a programme featuring the RSNO and RSNO Chorus. Among the treats in store are extracts from Verdi’s Nabucco, Aida and Macbeth on the one hand, and Wagner’s Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser and Siegfried on the other. And all under the baton of Enrique Mazzola.

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KENNETH WALTON

POP

BEIRUT

BARROWLAND, GLASGOW, 11 SEPTEMBER

THE world’s greatest indie band fronted by a trumpet/ukulele/flugelhorn player, Beirut have moved from early Balkan, klezmer, mariachi and other world influences. Their latest, The Rip Tide, is their most conventional pop offering to date but is still effortlessly beguiling.

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FIONA SHEPHERD