The Tron Theatre has loved one other profitable and busy season, delivering a few of the most fun new work being staged in Scotland in the mean time, together with a blistering re-mount of Eilidh Mortgage’s Moorcroft in July, which is able to exit on tour throughout Scotland with Nationwide Theatre of Scotland this October; and our 5-star manufacturing of Cyprus Avenue by David Eire, which is able to return for a week-long run in Glasgow’s Pavilion Theatre in early 2024.
The theatre has introduced its new programme for Autumn-Winter 2023, however on the identical time is saddened to announce that will probably be Inventive Director, Andy Arnold’s final season on the venue as he stands down from the position after virtually sixteen years on the creative helm.
Shereen Nanjiani MBE, Chair of the Board of Trustees says of Andy’s time as Inventive Director:
‘In his time on the Tron, Andy Arnold has given us so many thrilling, provocative – usually downright absurb – however all the time entertaining theatre experiences. All through even the hardest of occasions, he’s remained passionately dedicated to the Tron’s important position within the theatre eco-system and a vocal advocate for the sector as a complete. On behalf of the Board of Trustees, I thank him for every little thing he’s performed for the Tron.’
Says Andy of his last-ever season with the Tron Theatre:
‘I’ve such blended feelings about introducing this programme for Autumn-Winter 2023 – a terrific and really typical Tron season, but additionally, alas, my final. I initially noticed my publish on the Tron as a short-term enterprise to spherical off my Glasgow theatre work following my prolonged tenure on the Arches, however as a substitute, fell in love with making and staging work on the Tron and constructed such sturdy relationships with the sensible crew there in addition to with all of the artists who’ve handed via our doorways over time, that the short-term enterprise has lasted over fifteen years! The time is correct for me to maneuver on and I’m extraordinarily proud to be closing out my position because the Tron’s Inventive Director with such a full and vibrant programme.’
Irreverent, however nonetheless devoted to the unique, Tron Theatre Firm’s Nae Expectations (19 Oct – 4 Nov at 7.30pm) is Gary McNair’s contemporary have a look at the Dickens basic, with a Glasgow tongue and a gallus spirit. This would be the final Tron Theatre Firm manufacturing to be directed by Andy and he’s assembled a brilliantly comedic ensemble together with Gavin Jon Wright as Pip, Karen Dunbar because the terribly unusual Miss Havisham and Gerry Mulgrew as Abel Magwitch. Andy says of his closing directorial outing for Tron Theatre Firm: ‘I’m thrilled that my final fundamental stage manufacturing might be one other collaboration with Gary McNair, who I labored with on The Alchemist in 2019. I’ve drawn collectively an excellent forged – a few of whom have labored with me on productions all through the a long time – making this staging as absurdist and theatrical as you’ve come to count on’.
Persevering with on the Dickens theme, the pantomime this 12 months is a refreshed model of Aganeza Scrooge (29 Nov ’23 – 7 Jan ’24, Johnny McKnight’s first ever panto for us, staged method again in 2011. Sally Reid performed Tiny Tim within the unique model and she or he returns this 12 months within the position of director – working alongside glitter-king designer Kenny Miller, musical maestro Ross Brown and some different well-kent faces, for this unforgettable spin on the basic ‘bah humbug-to-festive-generosity’ transformational story, A Christmas Carol.
The small however mighty visiting programme opens in the principle home with Mark Thomas in Ed Edward’s England & Son (14-16 Sept), a kaleidoscopic odyssey the place catastrophe capitalism, empire, stolen youth and stolen wealth merge into the easy story of a working class boy who simply desires his dad to smile at him; adopted by author/director Andy McGregor’s Battery Park (28-30 Sept), a play with stay music about Britpop, superb defeat and dealing class desires. Within the Altering Home, Katie Barnett and James Siggens of AyeTunes! current a Doric jukebox musical, My Doric Diary (26-28 Oct) about what it means to like and what it takes to let go; and there’s A Second’s Peace Theatre Firm with their Ladies’s Inventive Firm efficiency of We Incite This Assembly (13-14 Sept), a night of storytelling created by ten girls with sturdy voices, daring concepts and a critical love of tea.
Tron CREATIVE, the 12 months spherical Artist Growth programme geared toward offering alternatives to encourage and develop the proficient group of artistic practitioners making theatre in Scotland, has a busy season of labor forward. With a brand new LabWeek residency and an thrilling BUILD programme of workshops, talks and social actions, highlights this season embody a 3-day residency with founding father of ThickSkin, Neil Bettles on Devising Bodily Theatre (7-9 Sept), a session on Harnessing Queer Pleasure (13 Oct) with James Ley and The Direct Strategy (20 Nov) with Becky Hope-Palmer, three administrators workshopping one scene with six actors.
Tron Participation will proceed to ship their in depth programme of labor, in situe on the Tron and out in the neighborhood. The sensible, out of doors Strolling Tall Tales classes will proceed in Toryglen and Tollcross Park for households and pre-schoolers. Neighborhood Skillshops and Tronversations will take their Nice Tales, Excessive Expectations drama workshops to main faculties and group teams throughout Glasgow, linking in with our personal manufacturing of Nae Expectations; a spread of supporting supplies for Nae Expectations may even be made out there to secondary college college students and lecturers attending a efficiency; and Tron Ambassadors, our work expertise programme for 14-19 12 months olds will see a brand new host of recruits study non-performance routes into the humanities.
The Autumn-Winter 2023 season will go on-sale on Tuesday twenty fifth July at 11am with all performances, workshops and courses out there to e book on-line or by phone.
