Theatre

WHAT'S HAPPENING THIS SEASON...  

Arches LIVE, our annual festival of brave new work from local artists, runs from Thurs 16th-Sat 25th September. A real mixture of performances, installations and discussions, the building will be alive with work which challenges the norm, as well as our perceived knowledge and sense of place. You can see absolutely everything with a festival pass (£28/£24), but day passes (£13/£9) and tickets for individual shows (£7/£5) are also available.  

Tom McCulloch: Landscape No2 (Sampler)

Meanwhile, dates have been announced for the IETM biannual plenary, which takes place from 4-7 November in venues across the city. Up to 600 international delegates will descend on Glasgow to witness performances from some of Scotland's foremost companies and directors. Performances announced so far include: Nic Green: Trilogy, Adrian Howells: An Audience With Adrienne, Dogstar: The Tailor Of Inverness, Kieran Hurley: Hitch and Highway Diner/EatonLewis: Parallel Lines.

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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

This May at Behaviour we present two exciting shows from our Arches Brick Award winners 2009. During the Edinburgh Fringe, 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 this were Beady Eye with Everything Must Go and Dancing Brick with 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won. See the Behaviour show details to the right for more information.

What's coming up...

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Music
The Arches Community Choir
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE 2010
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Other
Arches LIVE Lounge
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Fri 17 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Nic Green: Fatherland, Motherland: Fatherland
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Wed 22 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: JC Marshall: ScotchHop
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Georgina Porteous: Inbox
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Harry Wilson: Helium
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Sarah Hopfinger: Away Into The Night
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Iain Campbell: NOT_WITH(music)
Thu 16 Sep 2010
- Fri 17 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Murray Wason: Why I Try To Dig The Earth
Fri 17 Sep 2010
- Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Ugly Pup: Brandy and Summer Gloves
Fri 17 Sep 2010
- Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Angie Dight: Animal, Mineral, Vegetable?
Fri 17 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Gareth Vile: Chat Show
Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Mary-Frances Doherty: A Love of Goodbyes
Sat 18 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: David Overend: Underneath the Arches: A Dialogue
Sun 19 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Hole In My Pocket: HIMP Sunday Service
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Wed 22 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: amplifier: Who Man 2
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Wed 22 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: conFAB: Where have I come from? Where are we going?
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Thu 23 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Leila Peacock & Nicolas Puyjalon: Dinner
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Wed 22 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Greg Sinclair: Anmut
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Fri 24 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Aelfred de Sigley & Calum Johnston: Polyphony
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Alan McKendrick & Tobias Feltus: Violence Was Offered
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Wed 22 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Lawrence Crawford: Coma
Tue 21 Sep 2010
- Wed 22 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Gareth Vile: The VileArts Mercury
Wed 22 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Jer Reid: Burghead
Wed 22 Sep 2010
- Fri 24 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Ian Smith: My Hands are Dancing but my Heart is Cold
Fri 24 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Tom McCulloch: Landscape No2 (Sampler)
Fri 24 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Chris Hall: The Note
Fri 24 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Pony Pie: How Keanu Reeves Saved The World
Fri 24 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Katherine Nesbitt & Alisdair Grahame: Re-Framing History
Fri 24 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Ben Dunn: A Booming Voice
Fri 24 Sep 2010
- Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Skye Loneragan: PLUCKED OF PURPOSE – The Adventures of P.B
Sat 25 Sep 2010
Theatre
Arches LIVE: Check In
Sun 03 Oct 2010
Theatre
Hole In My Pocket: HIMP Sunday Service
Wed 06 Oct 2010
- Thu 07 Oct 2010
Theatre
Room 2 Manoeuvre: Watch iT!/Such a Bloke
Sun 10 Oct 2010
Theatre
Hole In My Pocket: HIMP Sunday Service
Wed 13 Oct 2010
- Thu 14 Oct 2010
Theatre
Curtis & Co – Dance Affairs: Return2you
Wed 20 Oct 2010
- Sat 23 Oct 2010
Theatre
Glasgay: Markus Makavellian: Chromotherapy
Tue 26 Oct 2010
- Sat 30 Oct 2010
Theatre
Glasgay: Wendy Miller/Rachel Amey: The Bridge
Wed 03 Nov 2010
- Sat 06 Nov 2010
Theatre
IETM: Nic Green: Trilogy
Thu 04 Nov 2010
- Sun 07 Nov 2010
Theatre
IETM: Biannual Plenary in Glasgow
Thu 04 Nov 2010
- Fri 05 Nov 2010
Theatre
IETM: Dogstar: The Tailor Of Inverness
Thu 04 Nov 2010
- Sat 06 Nov 2010
Theatre
IETM: Highway Diner/EatonLewis: Parallel Lines
Thu 04 Nov 2010
- Sat 06 Nov 2010
Theatre
IETM: Adrian Howells: An Audience With Adrienne
Sat 06 Nov 2010
- Sun 07 Nov 2010
Theatre
IETM: Kieran Hurley: HITCH
Thu 11 Nov 2010
Music
The Irrepressibles + guests
Fri 12 Nov 2010
- Sat 13 Nov 2010
Theatre
PLaY: Time Dilation
Mon 15 Nov 2010
Theatre
DadaFest10: Asphyxia: The Grimstones Hatched
Tue 16 Nov 2010
Theatre
SCRATCH Night
Thu 18 Nov 2010
- Fri 19 Nov 2010
Theatre
Proto-type Theater: Third Person: Bonnie and Clyde Redux
Wed 24 Nov 2010
Theatre
DadaFest10: Mat Fraser & Julie Atlas Muz: The Freak and The Showgirl
Thu 25 Nov 2010
Theatre
DadaFest10: Laurence Clark: What's The Best Medicine?
Wed 01 Dec 2010
- Sun 02 Jan 2011
Theatre
Pinocchio

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