Opening: Dusting, NTS Pan, Python’s Spamalot & Rocky

Amongst the major openings in Scotland over the next month are:



OPENING 07 JUNE 2010, Glasgow’s King’s Theatre plays host to
Dirty Dusting, a comedy about three 70-something hard-working
cleaners who are facing the axe. They are past their best, beyond
their sell-by-date and over the hill but they certainly won’t take
their redundancy lying down. These game ‘girls’ set up a phone-sex
service ‘The Telephone Belles’ and that’s when the fun really
begins. The cast includes
Barbara Rafferty,
Gwyneth Guthrie, Janet Michael
and Sean Scanlan.
The season continues until 12 June 2010.

OPENING 08 JUNE 2010, The National Theatre of Scotland
presents JM Barrie’s Peter Pan in a new version by David Greig at
Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. Directed by Olivier Award-winning John
Tiffany (Black Watch) and written by multi award-winning
Scottish playwright David Greig (Midsummer, Yellow Moon)
this Peter Pan reimagines the Darling family in Victorian Edinburgh
with all its mists, gaslamps, bridges and mystery. The season
continues until 12 June 2010. The tour continues to HMT in Aberdeen.

OPENING 14 JUNE 2010, Monty
Python musical
Spamalot
by Eric Idle
and John Du Prez
reaches Scotland after winning the
Tony Award for Best Musical in 2005. Playing at Glasgow’s King’s
Theatre, the show
tells the legendary
tale of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table featuring the
songs He Is Not Dead
Yet, and Always
Look On The Bright Side Of Life.
Marcus Brigstocke
as King Arthur and
Todd Carty
as Patsy lead the cast. The season continues until 19 June 2010, and
the tour continues to Aberdeen’s HMT in August and the Edinburgh
Playhouse in October.

OPENING 21 JUNE 2010, Richard O’Brien’s Rocky
Horror Show
arrives at the Edinburgh Playhouse. Follow squeaky-clean sweethearts
Brad and Janet on an adventure they’ll never forget, with the
scandalous Frank ‘n Furter, rippling Rocky and vivacious Magenta.
Classic songs include Sweet
Transvestite, Damn it Janet, and
of course, the pelvic-thrusting Time
Warp. The show stars Scottish actor and comedian Gerard Kelly as the narrator.
The season continues until 26 June 2010.



OPENING 22
JUNE 2010,
Rodgers
and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! reaches the King’s Theatre, Glasgow. The
show stars Marti
Webb
as Aunt Eller
and Mark Evans
as Curly and is set on America’s Western Frontier, against a
background of conflict between farmers and cattlemen. Songs
include Oh, What a Beautiful
Mornin’, The Surrey with The Fringe on Top,
Many a New Day, I Can’t Say No as
well as the title song. Performances continue
until 26 June 2010.