Them Beatles return from international dates for tribute show in Eastwood Park Theatre

|  Friday 27 April, 7.30pm

An internationally acclaimed Scots tribute band, who have just returned from a two month residency in Johannesburg, are bringing their Beatles extravaganza back to Eastwood Park Theatre on Friday 27 April. Them Beatles are tipped to make a massive breakthrough in 2012, including a tour of Canada in the summer followed by dates in New Zealand and Australia as well as being invited to play at the prestigious International Beatles Festival in Liverpool.

Them Beatles are returning to Eastwood Park Theatre due to popular demand, after wowing a sold out audience last year with their energetic and incredibly authentic review of the Fab Four. The band are to recreate the entire career of The Beatles live on stage in what promises to be a must for all Beatles fans, young and old. The band enjoyed many successes in 2011 including theatre, festival and TV appearances home and abroad. The show will feature songs and costumes from the height of Beatlemania, right through to the famed ‘rooftop’ gig just before the Beatles split.

The band are Clark Gilmour (25, John Lennon), Joe Kane (32, Paul McCartney), Craig McGown (24, George Harrison) and Grahame Critcher (33, Ringo Starr) and hail from Glasgow and Lanarkshire.

The band are excited to be back playing in the UK over the coming months. Clark said: “We have just returned from playing at the prestigious Lyric Theatre in Johannesburg where we spent two months entertaining thousands of fans. It was an amazing experience for us and we received a lot of fantastic press reviews and media interest. We have been working really hard producing our show that tells the chronological story of The Beatles and we hope the people of Renfrewshire will come along and join us in what will be a great night!”

Craig added: “Coming back home to the UK is great for us, and we hope as many people come out to see us at Eastwood Park. Last year was an incredible journey for us and we have even more planned for 2012.”

The much in demand act have played around the UK, appeared at Bergenfest music festival in Norway and have been signed up by Showtime Australia to take their “Beatlemania on Tour” show around the world, including tours of Canada, South Africa and Australia. The band have also attracted celebrity fans in Belle and Sebastian who invited them to play in front of 5000 fans at their festival, All Tomorrow’s Parties.

The invitation to play at the International Beatles Festival is a major feather in the cap of the band, which will see the cream of tribute acts from across the globe descend on the home city of John, Paul, George and Ringo for a week of festivities, live performances and exhibitions. Them Beatles are set to perform the album “Rubber Soul” in its entirety on the massive outdoor stage as well as some more intimate performances across the city including the famous Cavern Club throughout the week. This year is a particularly special one for the festival as it marks the beginning of the official 50th anniversary celebrations. Ringo joined the band in 1962, completing the line up which went on to become the Fab Four. The rest, as they say, is history.

Described as one of the most authentic and accurate representations of The Beatles, the band feature handmade costumes that exactly replicate those worn by the “Fab Four”, the visual aspect of their performance being just as important as the exact sound that changed music forever in the sixties.

Joe said: “Things have really taken off for us last year and we have developed the show further for 2012. We hope the show will capture the imagination of the audience and give people a live concert experience of the story everyone is so familiar with.”

Grahame, continued: “Everywhere we have played, we’ve had an amazing response with people dancing in the aisles and singing along to all the songs. We’ve stepped it up big time this year with this new production and we really hope to transport the crowd back to the magic of The Beatles in every way we can.”

The performance will contain songs from The Beatles earliest live performances featuring songs, played on authentic instruments as used by the band, from every album they recorded, spanning the illustrious career of the ‘Fab Four’ and feature costumes reflecting the progress of the best band in history.

Tickets are £14 or £12 for concessions and are available directly from the box office online or by telephone on 0141 577 4970

Artist talk – Alina Kisina

| Wednesday 4 April, Eastwood Park Gallery

London-based Ukrainian photographer Alina Kisina will be at Eastwood Park Gallery on Wednesday 4 April to talk about her City of Home exhibition and to do some portfolio reviews.

Anyone interested in having Alina look at their work should bring their portfolio along to the gallery at 2pm.  She will then be discussing her own work, again in the gallery, at 6pm.

For further information contact Janet Forry on 0141 577 3679.

Eastwood Park Gallery: Alina Kisina – City of Home

|   March 5 – April 30

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Alina Kisina’s photographic series ‘City of Home’ might, at first glance, seem merely aimed at capturing the daily life of her hometown of Kiev, Ukraine. Yet Kisina’s strangely evocative photographs are concerned less with documentary impressions than with opening up realms above and beyond the mundane images that define the surface of her work. For the subway steps, skylines, facades, and factory lots that Kisina depicts resonate with an order that seems not of this world. Her pictures—often quite literally—reflect realms that seem to exist side-by-side with or beyond the mere material givens of her everyday subject matter. Although superficially static, her serene, perfectly composed photographs actively lead us into higher realms that are uplifting and light: they cause us to transcend the materiality of everyday existence and enter into planes of experience heretofore unknown.

Alina Kisina is a self-taught Ukrainian photographer living in London. She regularly returns to her native land to take pictures that use a mixture of abstraction and representation suggesting a reality beyond that of the things actually shown. In 2010 Kisina’s work from the exhibition ‘Zerkalo|Mirror’ was featured in ‘Thinking in Unity after Postmodernism’ – an international conference on innovative approaches to aesthetics, literature and film at the University of Munich. Work from the series ‘City of Home’ was shown at Format 2011, an international photography festival in Derby.

The exhibition runs until 30 April

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A Double Bill of Comedy at Eastwood Park

Random Accomplice
DOUBLE NUGGET

| Tuesday 28 February, 7.30pm

A double bill of uplifting comedies written by Johnny McKnight and directed by Julie Brown

 

“Julie Wilson Nimmo and Mary Gapinski tell their stories separately… both appalling and hilarious at the same time. Seven Year Itch… really catches the eye… Allowing us to laugh freely in the build-up but still leaving us with a strange hangover at the end.”
**** Robert Dawson-Scott, The Times

 

Random Accomplice, Scotland’s premier touring company, are delighted to present a double bill of ingenious, hilarious and incredible stories – Mary Massacre and Seven Year Itch – under the banner DOUBLE NUGGET.

MARY MASSACRE
Set against the backdrop of a local fair, this is a bittersweet, emotional rollercoaster of a story about two women waiting at the candyfloss machine on Irvine Moor.

 Strangers to begin with, Leyla and Jenny unknowingly share a light-hearted secret and a love of psychics, but underneath their overlapping stories runs a tale of deceit, loss and betrayal. Neither is aware that they will change each other’s lives forever.

SEVEN YEAR ITCH
The true story of the brutal slaying of an office worker in America is interwoven with the delightfully flamboyant tales of two Glasgow office workers, one of whom is obsessed with Dolly Parton.

It is for the daydreamer who looks at the stapler with murderous intent, for anyone who thinks about shredding their co-workers’ fingers and for those who sing out loud and proud at their desk. A chilling tale packed full of frivolity!

Originally produced for the Magners Comedy Festival in 2009.

Mary Massacre and Seven Year Itch are mirror images of one another – one is celebrating the glossy and cosmetic, with hidden horrors that slowly surface to unravel the story. The other is unashamedly upfront about certain atrocities, interspersed by trivial, mundane stories of everyday life.

The two address aspects of the darker side of human nature, playing with secrets and lies. Both are emotional, current and poignant.

And both are truly funny.

 

“Both pieces start off with (Johnny) McKnight’s trademark high camp accentuated by Lisa Sangster’s inventively lush sets.”
*** Neil Cooper, The Herald

 

Standard        £13
Concession   £11
Student            £9

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Severe Weather – Theatre Closure

Thursday 8 December 2012

A ‘red alert’ has been issued by the Met office for high winds and, as a result, Eastwood Park Theatre will be closed this evening.  If you have tickets for tonight’s performance of Sleeping Beauty please contact Harlequin on 07593 093028.

Services should return to normal tomorrow.  Follow us on twitter @eptheatre

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Thank you.

Book now …or pay the penalty!

For the first time ever, Eastwood Park Theatre will host two exclusive football events which will see David Weir and Bertie Auld chatting about their amazing careers.

Rangers Legends Evening is on Thursday 17 November at 7.30pm with current Rangers Captain, David Weir discussing his autobiography ‘Extra Time’ along with Sandy Jardine who will also be discussing The Official Biography of Rangers.

David Weir says, “This is an exclusive event for die hard football fans that will bring up stories from Rangers incredible history as well as my own. Sandy Jardine is just as passionate about the sport as he is about Rangers and I think there will be a good few laughs on the night.”

We are Celtic Supporters is on Thursday 24 November at 7.30pm author of “We are Celtic Supporters” Lisbon Lions legend Bertie Auld and best selling author Des Dillon as they discuss just what it means to be ‘faithful through and through’.

Bertie Auld says, “Make it your goal to get a ticket because this will be the top night of the season.”

Tickets are only £8 for both events. Call 0141 577 4970. or you can book online at www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk/boxoffice

The Hunted; In Rehearsal, A Catch Up with Kirsty Stewart

“Most teenagers have problems with friends”                                                                                                                                      Talented and charming actress Kirsty Stewart sat down  with a few of us drama geeks to talk about her role as “the girl” in Visible Fictions’ upcoming show “The Hunted”.

Described as “an orphan and a bit of a loner” who “finds it difficult to trust”, the character of “the girl” will be identifiable by most young people in the audience. Essentially this “girl” (for lack of an official name) sets out to be a personification of the politics of being a young adult.

So what exactly are the parallels between a young girl from a time long, long ago and the modern-day teenager?

“She is being told what to do by her society” says Stewart. Something we could all relate to at one point in our lives.

“Why do you listen to that god-awful music?” “Don’t you think that outfit is a bit… risqué?” “Get off the computer and get a job!” “You need to start thinking about your future…” “Why can’t you study something with better job stability?”

We have, literally all been there before. This time is no different. A girl craving to explore the world around her, to stray from the path and merely follow her heart, whatever the outcome. But no. Some adult, in this case “the elder” of the village who takes care of her, will always be there to tell her what she should do with her future. She will not be a hunter as she wishes; it is not a profession for a girl, for a child. And so she will follow “the hunter” into the woods as a means of escaping society’s expectations. Teenage Rebellion 101.

When asked about her own adolescence, Stewart opened up about the expectations put on her to follow a more mainstream career path.

“You were a black sheep if you were anything but normal.”

And yet, even under the pressure to be something “normal”, and a lack of artistic opportunities in her town, as a result, Stewart stepped out and revelled in her desire to be something more than ordinary. She would be part of the creation of something extraordinary.

And so, with less than two weeks to go till curtain up, what has Kirsty Stewart got to tell audiences about “The Hunted”?

“The hunter gives her the opportunity to put down her defenses” creating an interesting dynamic for audiences to watch. “The girl” is brought into the world she always wanted to be a part of. But what will happen when the hunter becomes the hunted?

“The Hunted” will be performed at EPT on Friday 30th September; 1pm and 8pm. Tickets £7/ £5 concession. Tickets for the production are available here or by phoning the Box Office on 0141 577 4970

Audiences are also invited to a live Wolf Hunt in Rouken Glen Park preceding the 8pm showing on the 30th. Click here for more information. 

 

Do your part. Join the Hunt.