Going out

The last time Trisha Brown Dance Company performed in Scotland was at the 2007 Edinburgh International Festival, when Brown was 71. Nearly five years on, the influential New York choreographer is still working, and bringing a new piece, Les Yeux Et L’Âme, to Tramway in Glasgow on Saturday and Sunday, alongside her 1991 piece For MG: The Movie, also performed at the 2007 EIF.

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MUSIC

Just as Hilary Mantel’s new novel about Anne Boleyn hits bookshelves (see page 12), Howard Brenton’s acclaimed play on the same subject comes to Edinburgh Festival Theatre. Anne Boleyn has already sold out at Shakespeare’s Globe; for the uninitiated, the play – which runs from Tuesday till Saturday – begins as a detective story in which King James I of England finds secrets about Boleyn in an old treasure chest. We then flash back to Boleyn’s life, and see how her radical ideas influence the king.

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THEATRE

While the bad blood between Peter Hook and the rest of New Order continues to cast a shadow over the band’s first tour since 2006, the good news is that, despite Hook’s absence, the current line-up still includes three original members – Gillian Gilbert having returned to the fold after ten years. If you can’t catch them at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall tonight, they’re returning to Scotland in July to play T in the Park, before joining Blur and the Specials for a London gig in August to mark the end of the Olympics.