Theatre

During our two month closure, whilst improvement works were being undertaken above at Central Station, the Arches' creative spirit lived on in locations all across the city; our Arches OFF-SITE series lit up Glasgow's various nooks and crannies with experimental performance.

Here's what the critics had to say...

The Scotsman:
Life Long (21 Feb)

The Herald:
Life Long (22 Feb)
A La Carte (1 Mar)

Arches OFF-SITE on Flickr

Meanwhile, back in the building, we're celebrating our return underground with a packed season of provoking performance. From artist/musician/feminist creative Linder's thirteen hour event The Darktown Cakewalk, to a carnival of intimate encounters and secret adventures at Forest Fringe's A Micro-Festival, to the thirtieth anniversary (!) of the National Review of Live Art... 

PLEASE CLICK ON THE EVENTS ON THE RIGHT FOR SHOW INFORMATION >>>

 

ABOUT THE ARCHES' THEATRE

"One of Britain’s hippest theatre and arts venues” – The Sunday Times

“An extraordinary, challenging, 21st century theatre” –  The Scotsman

The Arches is the leading provider in Scotland for support to emergent artists and performance practitioners.  Amongst many mentoring schemes and professional development projects, the Arches run the annual Platform 18: New Directions Arches Award (in collaboration with National Theatre of Scotland and Traverse Theatre), the Artist in Residence and Company in Residence programmes, the Brick Award re-staging opportunity, four annual Scratch nights and the Arches Live! festival of new work.

"The Arches has made it its business to nurture talent from the grass roots up, which is why the Glasgow Company is unique in the UK" - Scotland on Sunday 

“Arches LIVE! – a defiant, unapologetic celebration of theatre that is experimental, often brash, and on occasion rough as a hangover” – Sunday Herald

Accompanying Arches Live! in September, the Arches introduced a second brave annual festival in April 2009, Behaviour (which replaces the Arches Theatre Festival). Arches Theatre Festival has played host to performers as diverse as NYC’s Ann Liv Young, Taylor Mac, The TEAM and The Riot Group, Russia’s Akhe and T.N.F., Dublin’s Pan Pan and London’s Tim Crouch.

  

“In pole position at the moment is the Arches…. the theatre festival has become a significant event of the cultural year, gleefully blurring distinctions between drama, performance and dance.”  - The Herald

In addition to the two festivals, the Arches also maintain a year-long programme of visiting theatre, including showcases of new work from Derevo, Highway Diner and For We Are Many.  In 2007, Aurora Nova Touring brought Array’s Outre and Jo Stromgren Kompani’s The Convent, and Random Accomplice developed Little Johnny’s Big Gay Musical as part of the Glasgay festival. 

"Where does tomorrow's new work come from? Where can you see it today? The answer is the Arches." - The Guardian

In February 2009, we presented two exciting shows from our Arches Brick Award winners 2008 (2007's winners were 1927 who have gone on to great things). This is the latest addition to our programme of support for emergent talent. During the Edinburgh Fringe last year, we tirelessly hunted out two of the companies we felt most deserving of the chance to re-stage their shows at the Arches. The two winners were Little Bulb Theatre's Crocosmia and Paper Cinema & Kora's The Night Flyer.