THE TRON Theatre in Glasgow has announced its Spring/Summer 2016 season which artistic director Andy Arnold describes as "one of the strongest programmes I've assembled in recent years”.
The works on offer include Cock, the story of a gay man who, on a break from his partner, falls for a woman and is forced to decide over his seven-year relationship or the possibility of new love.
The February run will be the first staging in the UK of Mike Bartlett's play (described as “full of biting, barbed exchanges and verbal sparring”) since its Royal Court premiere six years ago.
In March, David Leddy’s new play International Waters will premiere, promising “a twisting plot exploring how progress can be a trap, involving elegant glamour, brutal food poisoning, cyborg finance and a delicious bull testicle meringue”.
In the same month, Vanishing Point will produce The Destroyed Room, inspired by the famous Jeff Wall photograph of a ransacked room.
The Lung Ha Theatre Company is set to take audiences on a (quiet) April journey in The Silent Treatment written by Douglas Maxwell, pictured, with music by MJ McCarthy.
In July the Tron will present Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West in July, the third in his bleak but blackly comic Leenane trilogy. McDonagh's bickering brothers Coleman and Valene squabble over everything from religious icons to packets of crisps.
Mark Thomas returns in April after the sell-out success of Cuckooed with his brand new show Trespass, and in the same month Emma Callander will be directing the Traverse Theatre Company production Crash, described as “a rare and poetic insight into the psychology of a banker's world.”
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