Cécile B. Evans: AMOS' WORLD
Tue-Fri 12 - 5pm
Sat & Sun 12 - 6pm
CLOSED Mondays
This exhibition at Tramway represents Cécile B. Evans most ambitious installation to date and constitutes the culmination of a three-part installation and video work titled AMOS' WORLD (2017- ongoing). In her work, Cécile B. Evans examines the significance and role of emotion in contemporary societies as well as the increasing influence of new technologies on our feelings and actions.
AMOS’ WORLD is conceived as a television show set in a socially progressive housing estate. The show, divided into episodes, follows an architect called Amos and the inhabitants of the housing estate. Viewers are first introduced to Amos and some of the tenants, each individual interwoven into the larger infrastructure of Amos’ building. His comfortable perch takes a turn when his perfect individual-communal fantasy for the Capitalist age begins to crumble as the tenants fail to conform to the behaviours he had envisaged.
Each episode is set within a unique installation inspired by famous Brutalist housing complexes which echo the environments within the three films. Together the works form an allegory for the networked age, presenting a stage on which the person-to-person power dynamics are played out and deconstructed through technological infrastructures. The viewers, themselves first seated in small cell-like units, witness the first fissures in a carefully constructed network as personal and structural power dynamics break down to reveal the possibility of a resolution.
The exhibition is realised as a co-production by Tramway in partnership with Mumok Vienna, Museum Abteiberg and Galerie Emanuel Layr, with additional support from Art Night London with Hayward Gallery and the Madre Museum, and will be the first solo exhibition of Cécile B. Evans' work in a public institution in Scotland.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye
An upper foyer exhibition
We live much of our lives in our heads — looking forward, recollecting, yearning, regretting, day-dreaming. For most people this inner life is frequently visual: they can conjure up an image of something in their ‘mind’s eye’ that is a little like looking at it. However, around 3% of the population - those with the condition aphantasia — lack imagery altogether, while for another minority — with hyperphantasia — imagery is so vivid that it resembles ‘real seeing’.
Extreme Imagination: inside the mind’s eye considers the impact of these phenomena on making art. How can someone make anything without being able to imagine what they want it to look like? Is there a distinctly hyperphantasic kind of art? Aphantasia and its opposite teach us about human diversity: the easily-missed, potentially startling differences between how individuals go about their inner lives.
The work of the participating artists — and designers, architects, and writers — demonstrates the diversity of means by which things come to be made, and challenges long-held beliefs about what it means to be ‘creative’.
Supported by The Arts and Humanities Research Council
(Follow-on Funding for Impact and Engagement Scheme)
Image: Isabel Nolan, A lion with a thorn in his paw, 2015. Courtesy Kerlin Gallery
Citizens Theatre presents The Dark Carnival
Tickets available from the Citizens Theatre website>
(PLEASE NOTE Tramway's allocation of tickets for this production is sold out. Tickets are available from the Citizens Theatre.).
The Dark Carnival is on daily from 19 February - 2 March, with the exception of 24 & 25 February
Performances are at 7.30pm with an approximate run time of 1 hour, 50 minutes
Additional matinee performances: 23 February, 2.30pm and 27 February, 1.30pm
A music and theatre spectacle, The Dark Carnival features sixteen performers and musicians. They tell the story of newcomers to the afterlife who discover that death is not actually the end. Incredulous at their continuity, they form their own necropolitan community where every night is party night: songs get sung, love gets made and whisky flows.
Above the ground, the cemetery brims with life. But a mysterious event throws the lives of the living into uncertainty. When news reaches the cemetery, an underground revolution begins, led by the stoical Mrs Mark and her band of necropolitans.
Created and performed by Vanishing Point and A New International, The Dark Carnival will transport audiences into an unexpected vision of the afterlife full of long-lost lovers, half-hearted ghosts, and songs.
Producing company
Vanishing Point, a co-production with Citizens Theatre in association with Dundee Rep Ensemble
CREATIVE TEAM
Conceived, written and directed by Matthew Lenton
Songs and lyrics by Biff Smith
Music by A New International
Set and Costume design by Kenneth MacLeod
Lighting design by Simon Wilkinson
Director - Matthew Lenton
CAST
Malcolm Cumming (Robertson Trust Citizens Theatre Actor Intern)
Elicia Daly
Peter Kelly
Natali McCleary
Ramesh Meyyeppan
Ann Louise Ross
& more to be announced
ACCESSIBLE PERFORMANCES
Audio Described Performance: Sat 23 Feb, 2.30pm
BSL Performance : Fri 1 Mar, 7.30pm
Christian Noelle Charles: I Like What I Like
An evening of films, interviews, and video performances programmed by Glasgow based artist Christian Noelle Charles that present her inspiration for her performance practice, CC TIME.
The interviews in this programme are considered interludes. They demonstrate black women’s interactions with white men, expressing confidence through their personality.
For example, in Grace Jones’s now infamous ‘Day Today’ interview, she expresses and defines her identity without hesitation in the face of questions which seek to re-enforce negative and misogynistic attitudes towards women and people of colour in general. To which Jones compellingly replies “I’m very much human, very much that”, a video and sentiment that has gone viral for the millennial generation as an affirmation of the agency of women of colour.
“as black women we are more than who we appear to be and just to prompt ourselves, (Jones) shows us we should always present our most authentic selves to the world and that’s what I would like to present to you here in this screening.” – Christine Noelle Charles
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CC TIME is an exploration between video and performance, executing the idea of the audience watching CC no matter the judgements. Using references like 'The Oppositional Gaze' by Bell Hooks, this practice introduces volumes of concepts of race and gender with ideas from representation and self-love.
This event follows on from the CC TIME performance TURN, co-commissioned by Tramway with Take Me Somewhere festival in 2018.
Production still courtesy of the artist
Kris Lemsalu
Tramway presents new work by renowned Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu just before she represents Estonia at the Venice Biennale 2019.
Lemsalu’s pieces evoke the bestial side of human beings and civilizations, and are often underscored by feminist themes. Her sculptural installations are assembled from a palette of seemingly visceral materials including ceramics, animal parts and pelts, fur, wool, leather, fabric and shells, alongside bought and found objects. Often performing within her works by inhabiting sculptures as costumes, she plays with the line between human, creature and object. Through her specific style of humorous and absurd storytelling, Lemsalu poses earnest questions about the hierarchies we set up between life and death, beauty and revulsion, merit and mediocrity.
Kris Lemsalu was born in 1985 in Tallinn, Estonia, and lives and works between Berlin and Tallin. She creates mixed-media sculptures, installations and performances with unexpected materials. Lemsalu has shown as part of Performa 17 (2017), DRAF performance night (2017), Bunshitu Gallery, Tokyo (2015), Ferdinand Bauman Gallery, Prague (2015) and is represented by Koppe Astner, Glasgow and Temnikova & Kasela, Tallinn. Lemsalu will represent Estonia at the Venice Biennale 2019.
This exhibition is a co-production between Tramway, Glasgow and CCA Goldsmiths, London and is supported by The Estonian Embassy.
Image: Kris Lemsalu, 4LIFE (2018). Courtesy the artist. Photo: Edith Karlson
plan B: Dance Theatre Double Bill
Tantalus | A Pair of Genes
A duo of dance theatre works from a Scottish company that thrives on diversity and collaboration. Themes of independence and individuality are wittily explored, variously drawing on classical mythology and genetics.
Tantalus (solo)
Performed and choreographed by Neil Joseph Price (Winner, Best Dance Performance, Sunday Herald Culture Awards 2017).
Like Tantalus, the Greek mythological figure who was made to stand in a stream beneath a tree – the fruit always out of reach, the water receding when he bent to drink – the piece explores the emotional journey for a man pulled in conflicting directions, whilst seeking his own independence and fulfilment.
With specially commissioned music by Shooglenifty’s Quee MacArthur, Tantalus is directed and designed by plan B’s Artistic Director, Frank McConnell
A Pair of Genes (Duet)
Performed by Neil Joseph Price and Artistic Director, Frank McConnell.
This new, witty dance theatre duet, choreographed by Frank with original music written by David Trouton, explores how our invisible genetic make-up contributes to a sense of identity. Frank and Neil are related by blood but one exhibits an additional chromosome in DNA analysis. With the speed of technology ever increasing, the show also explores the gradual, world–wide, de-population in recent years of people with Down Syndrome. The show is designed by Miranda Melville.
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Recommended for ages 8+
Running time: 80 mins including an interval between performances
Photo by Marc Marnie
Citizens Theatre presents Nora: A Doll's House
A Citizens Theatre production
By Stef Smith
A radical new version of Henrik Ibsen’s play
Directed by Elizabeth Freestone
Designed by Tom Piper
‘You’ve lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done…?’
Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight to protect herself and her family or risk losing everything.
Ibsen’s brutal portrayal of womanhood caused outrage when it was first performed in 1879. This bold new production by one of Scotland’s most exciting playwrights reframes the drama in three different time periods. The fight for women’s suffrage, the swinging sixties and modern day intertwine in this urgent, poetic play that asks how far have we really come in the past 100 years?
Nora: A Doll’s House is supported by Friends of the Citizens.
Suitable for ages 14+
Contains strong language
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Previews: Fri 15, Sat 16, Tue 19 March
Matinees: Wed 27 March (1.30pm), Sat 30 March (2.30pm) and Sat 6 April (2.30pm)
Access Performances:
Fri 29 March (BSL Interpreted), Sat 30 March 2.30pm (AD and CAP)
Post Show Talk: Tue 26 March
TICKETING
50p Tickets: 100 tickets for 50p on sale Sat 9 March at 10am at Tramway
See the Citizens Theatre website for full price information
Please note if tickets are sold out for your chosen performance, they may still be available from the Citizens Theatre website.
Citizens Theatre presents What Girls Are Made Of
Citizens Theatre presents a Raw Material and Traverse Theatre co-production in association with Regular Music
Written and performed by Cora Bissett
Directed by Orla O'Loughlin
It’s 1992. In a small town in Fife, a girl is desperate to get out into the world. An ad in the local paper declares: Band Seeks Singer.
Grunge has gone global, indie kids are inheriting the earth, and a schoolgirl from Glenrothes is catapulted to a rock star lifestyle as the singer in a hot new indie band. Touring with Radiohead, partying with Blur, she was living the dream. Until she wasn’t.
Based on her meticulously detailed teenage diaries, this is the true story of Cora Bissett’s rollercoaster journey from the girl she was to the woman she wanted to be.
Fresh from an award-winning, sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe, performed with a live band, and directed by the Traverse Theatre’s former Artistic Director Orla O’Loughlin, Cora celebrates life’s euphoric highs and epic shitstorms, asking what wisdom we should pass on to the next generation – and which glorious mistakes we should let them make.
Suitable for ages 14+
Contains strong language.
TICKETING
Please note if tickets are sold out for your chosen performance, they may still be available from the Citizens Theatre website.
Paul Merton's Impro Chums
Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch, Suki Webster, Mike McShane and accompanist Kirsty Newton are back on the road in 2019 to visit some of their favourite parts of the UK with another evening of mind-blowing improvisation. The collective improvisational experience embodied in the Chums is enough to stun an elephant. They flex their improvisational muscles to delight and entertain audiences in this country and abroad.
'Merton's Chums are some of the most seasoned performers in this field and know just how to work the games, the suggestions and the audience for maximum effect... Pure hilarity'
***** (British Theatre Guide)
'They continue to be the finest exponents of the Improv art'
***** (Daily Mirror)
Age Recommendation 14+
Citizens Theatre presents The Duchess [of Malfi]
A Citizens Theatre and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh co-production
By John Webster
Adapted and directed by Zinnie Harris
Webster’s dark tale of bloody treachery is the most thrilling and chilling of the Jacobean revenge tragedies – an exploration of male rage and female resistance as two brothers try and control their sister, block her marriage and repress her agency with fatal results.
Reflecting contemporary debates about female empowerment and the abuse of male power, this bold new interpretation is written and directed by Zinnie Harris. Zinnie has garnered huge critical success for her previous adaptations of The Oresteia: This Restless House, (Citizens Theatre and National Theatre of Scotland) and her more recent versions of Ibsen’s The Master Builder (West Yorkshire Playhouse) and Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, which sold out at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Suitable for ages 14+
Contains strong language and adult themes.
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Previews: Wed 4 & Thu 5 September
Matinees: Sat 14 (2.30pm), Wed 18 (1.30pm) & Sat 21 September (2.30pm)
Access performances:
Fri 13 September 7.30pm (BSL Interpreted)
Sat 14 September 2.30pm (AD and CAP)
Post Show Talk: Tue 10 September
TICKETING
50p Tickets: 100 tickets for 50p on sale Sat 31 August at 10am at Tramway
Visit the Citizens Theatre website for full ticket information
Please note if tickets are sold out for your chosen performance, they may still be available from the Citizens Theatre website.