#Britannia Panopticon

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For St. Andrew's Day: Celebrating Glasgow's Britannia Panopticon Music Hall

For Scotland’s National Day we celebrate a Glasgow venue that many claim is the oldest music hall in Great Britain, The Britannia Music Hall (also known in later years as The Panopticon or The Britannia Panopticon). It opened on Christmas Day, 1859. Others may dispute the distinction. As with all such claims, you can fudge it with various criterion because it comes down to what your definition of…

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Best Places in Glasgow – Make a List before Start Exploring the City

When it comes to make a list of most charming places on earth to live and explore something new and attractive every time, the list will be counted as incomplete without adding the name of Glasgow. Being a port city on the River Clyde in Scotland’s Western Lowlands, Glasgow is famous for its Victorian and art nouveau architecture – a rich legacy of the city’s 18th-20th century prosperity due to trade and shipbuilding. Now, the beautiful city is a cultural hub, home to institutions, Scottish Opera, Scottish Ballet, and National Theatre of Scotland along with acclaimed museums and a thriving music scene. If a list of best places in Glasgow is made, you will have options enough to complete it.

There are also a number of hidden gems that are required to add in the list of best places in Glasgow. Britannia Panopticon, the oldest surviving music hall in the world. Not to mention the Glasgow science centre or Riverside Museum famous for cutting-edge art. You can also check out Tramway or the Gallery of Modern Art.

You will also stay busy in exploring varied other destinations that will surely keep you surprised and enticed for the time. Not to mention the accommodation options that you can choose from hotels to apartments that come with living room, dining area and kitchen. It will be better to pre-book the room of your choice and enjoy pleasant time in the city. All modern facilities are provided to you to make your time comfortable.

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A wee follow up to the Stone of Destiny post.

What a great picture, eh! The guy in the splendid tartan coat, chauffeur’s cap and driving gloves is eccentric music hall owner Albert Ernest Pickard with his car in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street.

He is showing to the street corner lads a box with “Hame Again” written on the side.

The date is December 29, 1950, when the police forces of Britain are searching for Scotland’s Stone of Destiny which had been stolen/repatriated from Westminster Abbey just days earlier.

Albert Ernest Pickard, owner of the Britannia Panopticon on Argyle Street, which combined a music hall with a zoo, had a bit of time to spare over the Christmas holidays, and he made his own Stone of Destiny out of chicken wire and papier mache which he then drove around Glasgow claiming he was bringing it back to Scotland.

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J.D. Brown at The Britannia Panopticon

THE world's oldest surviving music hall welcomed one of the country's newest rising comedy stars, J.D. Brown, at a sold out night, in a venue steeped in unique history of live entertainment in the city of Glasgow.

The Britannia Panopticon, situated at the Trongate end of the city centre, goes back to 1857 where the iconic building first welcomed in its stampede of hungry hordes who would pack the benches and balcony for a rousing evening of live entertainment. It's in the heart of the city and in the hearts of the people. Its history, like the interior, is quite simply breathtaking. Many famous icons have performed in front of what was often described as hard-to-please working-class Glaswegians who would ensure a full house where theatre, music, art and dance were provided and presented in front of a rowdy, often baying audience.

Stan Laurel, just one of the greats to have graced the stage at the famous Britannia Panopticon The great Stan Laurel (Laurel and Hardy) was just one of the many greats to have graced the stage at the famous Britannia Panopticon. Now, 160-years-old, times have naturally moved on and a new breath of fresh air has blown up the old entrance close and into the arena. It looks a lot bigger than some photographs suggest and the place has had a well-earned touch of decoration; but you cannot help but feel there is a haunting, almost ghost-like feeling that surrounds it. There's a touch of magic and mystery and the owners have worked wonders to do the place justice. Thankfully, on this occasion, there was no stage performing animals, freak shows or a heart-stopping stunt act trying desperately to free themselves from a straight jacket from a hardened bygone era. No, this is 2017 — the new world. The clean, healthy and safe one; but the demands are equally as high today. The city of Glasgow still likes its entertainment to be of a high value and it's not afraid to let you know if they're not getting their fill. The Britannia Panopticon is tailor-made for comedy and its stage is fitting for old classics to up and coming stars of the new world. It's a beautiful place to both perform and to be entertained in. Coatbridge comedian J.D. Brown began the first of his three-date Manic Regressive show to a full house. Did the funnyman succeed the first of his three-round dates? Dafty News Comedy Corner took in the action. The show was hosted by popular radio presenter Robin Galloway with local Glaswegian comedian Hamish Tennant as support act. Robin Galloway is a masterclass and thorough professional at his craft and it shone at the Panopticon. The audience loved him — who couldn't? The eager crowd was treated and reacquainted with some of Robin's legendary on-air characters and he's as good live as he is on his radio show. Support act Hamish Tennant replaced Aberdeen-based comedian Graeme Tait who sadly fell ill just prior to the show. Hamish is the comedy scene's Mr reliable who clearly revelled and basked in the theatre of ghosts from a Christmas past.

Glasgow-based comedian Hamish Tennant splendidly graces the famous Britannia Panopticon stage and unleashes a superb assortment of classy tales and intellectual wit. Hamish's material, as ever, oozes intelligence and he uses language befitting of a sophisticated comedian. His charismatic persona is infectious as he slowly eases himself into his set and it doesn't take long before the crowd warm to him and his endearing entertaining tales. He's a man for this type of stage and his aura radiated it as he strolled through his set. This is a fine well-liked gentleman who doesn't take himself too seriously but he clearly is serious about the quality of the content he crafts and delivers. A star performance from a star comedian. Great host in Robin Galloway and a superb support act in Hamish Tennant laid the foundations for headliner J.D. Brown to pave his way onto the path many greats tread before him. Manic Regressive centres around J.D.'s upbringing — lamenting much of his childhood and touching on the chaos that surrounded his mother and sibling relationship. It's only been a small number of years since J.D. Brown first entered the bear pit of stand-up comedy and since then there have been many personal and professional battles he's had to overcome.

J.D. Brown backstage with radio presenter icon Robin Galloway "I had extremely high hopes for J.D. and as I introduced him on stage I told the crowd they were about to witness a comedy masterclass. I wasn't wrong because that's exactly what they got. One hour of the most original, brilliantly crafted material I think I've ever heard. J.D. took the audience on a personal journey through some stand out parts of his early life. The bit where he discovered his granny had a fancy man had the place in bits. A superb performance with sparkling content and a shoe-in for a return booking." – Robin Galloway There was a sense of freshness — almost calm-like — about J.D.'s. performance on the big stage at the Britannia Panopticon. He is no longer the promised article tagged with potential. He has grown, matured, and by his outstanding one-hour performance packaged with quality and bar-raising content, J.D. Brown has become the comedian so many anticipated. The time for living up to the hype finally arrived. It was time to step up onto the big stage and deliver a big performance. It's what the audience had waited for and for many of J.D.'s peers, it was something they all knew he was capable of. J.D. Brown more than rose to the challenge. His style has changed somewhat but for the better. He's gutsy but more controlled. His style of writing has evolved and his presence on stage enlarged. There is no secret he has been working tirelessly on shaping himself for the long-term. "Manic Regressive has to be one of the funniest live shows I've seen in years. J.D. manages to achieve a perfect balance of great material and captivating delivery not seen since Billy Connolly in his prime. Just don't take his advice on how to 'talk dirty to the missus'. I'm currently sleeping on the couch." — Ricky MacIntyre In all, it was a joy to watch a comedian who has a previous of troubles turn it around and sculpture it into a fine piece of art. It was pleasing to see the man so often surrounded by furore finally find his feet to carry a magnificent occasion lightly on his shoulders.

Britannia Panopticon audience treated to a trio of comedy masterpieces from Hamish Tennant (left), J.D. Brown (centre) and Robin Galloway (right) There is one element to J.D.'s game and that is he's actually brilliant at accents and character voices. He lays full blame on his misspent youth listening to Phil Differ and Jonathan Watson. It certainly helped with his 'Turkish Barber' routine. "J.D. Sports and J.D. Wetherspoon don't have a look in. J.D. Brown is that good he could make Donald Trump a great President. Sides were aching with laughter. A must-see show. J.D. true genius." — Scott Eadie J.D. Brown 2.0 has found his real purpose and omitting any distractions that previously had the potential to derail him, there is no doubt this fine funny comedian has what it takes to go a long way. He's already proven he has the sustainability, the endurance, the will and of course the talent that will take him there. J.D. has two other dates from his three-date Manic Regressive which already look like sell-out shows, adding to the welcomed pressure, but there's something about J.D. Brown when the time of action duty comes calling — he knows how to rise to it and meet it square on. We're already looking forward to Manic Regressive II and III.

JD Brown : Manic Regressive Britannia Panopticon Saturday 18 March Saturday 25 March 8.30pm £7       *A very special thank you to photographer David Higgins who provided an outstanding photography service at the Britannia Panopticon. See more of David's photography and to arrange a booking here >>>   Click to Post

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The amount of esotericism & hermetic knowledge wrapped up in pop-culture is astounding. IT envelops our entire upbringing. Just programming, within a construct.

For instance, The Lord of the Rings(i.e. Saturn-El) is riddled with parallels to "real life lore".

Sauron, The Dark and Shining One, The True Father. That Great Flaming Eye; an Omnipresent Panopticon in the Sky...

This is my Lord, if ever I would have one. Having grown up around Pagan's & been drawn to Paganism as a soul path, I cannot deny his reign in all that I see.

Just as all things have multiple meanings, so has my Lord's story gone. To me, Saturn-El is absolutely one in the same with Samhael. Which gives me great joy to know that HIS festival is now celebrated as the Birthday of "our lord" on Christmas.

Truly the Solstice, based in a fear of the cold months, and that the Lord would be displeased and disallow a bountiful harvest in the following months to come.

I was also raised in this life to patiently trust in Surtr's Great Name, and to be ready to march alongside the Son's of Müspell, onward to destroy the piousness of the Gods.

Long before the institution of marriage was placed on us, as we know it, rings were placed onto the fingers of slaves to connotate ownership.

This was a symbol derived from Saturn-El, the Dark Father.

How many names have the same ethereal forces gone by?

How much of what we know comes from paganism?

To bring it all full circle, the ring is a symbol. That of shackles. That of an eclipse.

Or even that of the ouroboros.

In those Final Days, Surtr will begin the battle of Ragnarök by leading the Mundispilli(The Destroyers of Worlds) onward to the Great bridge between Our world and that Above.

To me, these flaming giants marching with Surtr, known as Müspell's legions; they are the Flaming Sword that Surtr will use to start the War to end all Wars.

At this same time, Jörmungandr , a Great Serpent & child of Loki; will wrap itself around the world and bite it's own tail. When it releases thus begins the beginning of our end.

I had a friend propose once, that humanity did not have it's roots in Africa. He stated that he believed we started on the oldest of all mountain ranges of Earth, Appalachia.

At this moment my mind began to develop a much deeper theory.

From Appalachia, we moved West. Chasing that Great Flaming Eye, following the Sun as it set.

We crossed the Bering Strait into Asia, and continued our Northern and Southern wanderings, all the while pushing Westward along the already blazed path. Forged by the Fire of a God, constantly directing our ways.

Having reached the Western shores of Britannia, the learned men of the era spoke softly, "Look, let us go. Our friends are across this Great Divide, WE are over there!"

So again, mankind took to the waters in grand exploration, and having had reached the New(Old) World -- Manifest Destiny was conceived on Earth.

More where no more was to be had!!!

In Judaism & Christianity there is also a Great Serpent.

The Prophet John had said that Man and The Beast share the same number. Is it so far of a stretch to connect this all.

All these old names? All these dead tales?

What if America truly is that Great Serpent eating it's own tail?

An overlapping of one's self.

The beginning of humanities true autosarcophagy... and when it's mouth releases and shall relinquish its other end?..

What Hell Shall Break Forth From Its Forked Tongue

***IO SATURNALIA***

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The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall first opened in the late 1850's. At this time, people would sleep there if they has no where else to go.

1500 people would cram into the audience and it was a very tight compressed place. This was seen as a safe space where people could be entertained and have shelter.

The music hall has a rich history and in 1906 Stan Larrell made his first stage appearance there on amateur night. Nowadays it is used for private hire events, exhibitions and other things. Its run-down appearance adds to its old, rustic quality.

It is the world's oldest surviving music hall. 

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Watched silent film Metropolis tonight with live soundtrack and foley effects by Gladstone's Bag. At historic music hall venue The Panopticon. #panopticon #metropolis #cinema #silentfilm #musichall (at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnW-CISFrpA/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1uw8m152aza00

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Coronavirus: Scotland pupils back to school and big decline in employment

Right here are 5 things or now no longer it will doubtless be fundamental to know in regards to the coronavirus outbreak this Tuesday morning. We will bear another replace for you at 18: 00 BST.

1. Scotland pupils to reach encourage to high schools

Faculties within the Borders and Shetland welcome encourage their pupils on Tuesday for the birth of the contemporary term – the predominant in Scotland to utterly reopen since the coronavirus lockdown started virtually 5 months ago. Faculties in diverse areas will birth to reach encourage from Wednesday. There will doubtless be no bodily distancing between the kids, but workers will doubtless be required to be two metres rather than college students and diverse adults. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has acknowledged that some might well well well feel anxious about returning, but said the importance of getting kids encourage into education “can’t be over-acknowledged”.

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2. Universities urged to be flexible over A-levels

The authorities has known as on universities to serve areas birth for these college students in England who decide to allure against the outcomes of their A-level exams. This year’s tests had been scrapped on yarn of of the pandemic, and the outcomes due on Thursday will doubtless be per lecturers’ predicted grades – which is ready to be adjusted by examination boards to serve in mind the college’s outdated performance at A-level. The allure to universities comes after a row in Scotland the effect high-reaching pupils from colleges that had struggled within the past saw their outcomes downgraded.

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3. Employment in largest tumble for additional than a decade

Latest figures articulate the UK has suffered its largest quarterly decline in employment since 2009, reducing by 220,000 between April and June. Unemployment has now no longer risen as like a flash as modified into expected as corporations bear taken income of the authorities’s furlough scheme. But economists warn that the beefy enact of the pandemic on unemployment couldn’t be felt unless the programme ends in October.

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4. Arts venues to head crimson for are residing events consciousness campaign

A day of movement on Tuesday will highlight the impression of the pandemic on leisure and the arts, with venues including the Nationwide Theatre in London and the Britannia Panopticon Tune Hall in Glasgow turning their lights crimson to pick out concerns about job losses within the field. Organisers of the “Red Alert” campaign convey extra than one million experts are at likelihood of shedding their jobs without additional monetary fortify from the authorities.

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Glasgow Mural Trail - Part 3

4. Fellow Glasgow Residents, Ingram Street Car Park

Having finished our pint, and pondered the wonders of Glasgow’s ‘oldest bar’, we continued down High Street and turned right on to Ingram Street, into Glasgow’s Merchant City.

The Fellow Glasgow Residents mural spans the full wall of the City Halls and Old Fruitmarket Building, bringing a wave of colour to what was once a grey, gable end wall, covered in graffiti.

There are two main features to the wall; a kilted man picking a mushroom and a series of Scottish woodland animals (who could be considered as fellow Glasgow residents).

Our version of the mural reenactment involved me picking up another empty bottle of EL-D, some fantastic acting as I became a badger, and Alex & I moonlighting as a bellowing stag and a nose licking fox... classy!

5. Badminton, Wilson Street

This mural was created in the lead up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games as part of the marketing for the event. It depicts action shots of Scotland badminton player Kieran Merrilees and is part of a collection of four murals by the same artist. The other three murals can be found on the gable end of tenement blocks in Glasgow’s West End, near Partick train station, and represents the Commonwealth sports of netball, rugby and hockey.

Antz and I made it our mission to copy the poses, with my mobile phone becoming the badminton racket... there's an app for everything these days!

6. Space Man, New Wynd Lane

The Space Man mural can be found on a wall in New Wynd lane, just off Trongate, a short walk from mural five.

Created by Ali Wylie, this mural is very different in style from the other murals, inspired by pop, graphic novels, graphic design and Japanese culture.

Not many people know but Scotland has a growing space sector and Glasgow manufactures more satellites than anywhere in Europe. This was one of my least favourite murals, still impressive, but it does not feel as fitting as other murals (maybe as it’s stuck down a lane and not easy to view from the street).

Here's Antz and I pretending we're floating in space, our hoods are clearly space helmets.

Detour 3 - Britannia Panopticon Music Hall

The Space Mural is directly outside the entrance to the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, a building I previously knew nothing about (there are so many hidden gems in Glasgow). This is the oldest surviving music hall in the world and is where Stan Laurel made his stage debut.

The building is now owned by a registered charity - The Friends of the Britannia Panopticon Hall Trust - with the aim of continuing the legacy of the hall, advancing the conservation of the building and ensuring the building's future as a visitor attraction, museum and working venue.

The building is open for free general viewing and we entered up the steps to find patrons practicing for a song and dance performance. They welcomed us, let us look around, take some photos, and informed us of some of the history, encouraging us to spread word of the building and charity. So here I finally am, spreading the word.

It's a really interesting, historic building, which has many original features and a lot of charm. I'd encourage everyone to check it out and make a donation if you can.

Here are some pictures we took inside... Alex, of course, found a piano!

Go to Glasgow Music Trail Part 4

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I recently made a Winter Soldier dress and the fantastic Debbie McCall photographed it for me in the beautiful Britannia Panopticon Music Hall in Glasgow.

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To celebrate our 10th Year as Collective Architecture, we’re delighted to be taking part in Glasgow Door’s Open Days Festival this year, a fantastic programme of events which runs from the 11th to 17th September. We’re opening our studio situated at the top floor of the Mercat Building from 4pm on Sunday 17th. We’ve also put together a suggested itinerary for the Sunday of events in the surrounding area.

There are a variety of fascinating walks taking place in the East End. At 11am Dr Ronnie Scott is leading a tour of Glasgow’s City Centre Lanes, leaving from the Mercat Cross. the tour promises to discover some often overlooked aspects of the city centre.. Also at 11am, Glasgow Through The Ages III - The Enlightenment City, takes in the architecture of the Scottish Enlightenment.   . You can also get a tour of the River Clyde bridges at 10am and 1pm  or join the Bridgeton Heritage Trail at 2pm. 

As you’re heading along the Trongate don’t miss an opportunity to pop into the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall, open 11am - 5pm both Saturday and Sunday, as well as during the week. It’s the worlds oldest surviving music hall and where Stan Laurel made his debut in 1906!  Then head down to Glasgow Green where you can see inside the West Boathouse and book a taster rowing session. 

If you’re in need of some lunchtime refreshment, Drygate brewery are hosting tours all day Sunday 17th, and serve a fantastic menu in addition to an extensive range of beers. Alternatively head along to 202 Gallowgate where the lovely Soul Food Sisters will show you how to make a variety of delicious dishes inspired by cuisines from around the world . On the way don’t miss the new Billy Connelly mural ‘Big Yin’ by Rachel McLean and Jim Lambie’s Gallowgate Park Album Pathway.

At 2pm Calton Heritage Trail led by Peter Mortimer takes in the architecture of Glasgow Cross, the Barras and the history of the weaving industry. Starting outside the Mercat building, it finishes just in time to come along to our Open Studios event where you can admire panoramic views of the south of the city and hear a short series of talks on themes of Heritage, Housing and Culture.

At 4:30pm we have a series of 10 minute talks from clients and collaborators, including Conservation Architect Fiona Sinclair and photographer Andrew Lee who will be discussing heritage. Followed by Peter Martin, Development Director of Sanctuary Scotland (responsible for the redevelopment of Victoria Hospital) and Helen Moore from Reidvale Housing Association Board. Patricia Fleming (Patricia Fleming Projects) and Lizzie Smith from Collective Architecture round off the event, talking about arts and culture projects, including the Trails and Tales arts trail for East Dumbartonshire council. The event is free, but ticketed as space is limited.

Other events we recommend:

Northlight heritage are hosting a series of events exploring the Future of Pollok Stables this month, including an event on Sunday 17th September 11-4pm which explores the challenges currently facing the buildings, from flooding to dry rot, and what they need to preserve them for future generations. These hands-on sessions are drop in - no need to book.

The fabulous Glasgow Women’s library are leading a tour ‘Women of the East End’ on Saturday 16th September. 

Our friends at the Anderston Kelvingrove Church are open Saturday and Sunday, if you’ve ever wondered what’s inside the green pyramid go along and hear about it’s history and plans for the future of the building.   Its just a short walk from Finneston and an opportunity to see our latest housing development under construction, due for completion 2018. 

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Nursery Crymes last night - weird, wonderful, bloody freezing 😁 #nurserycrymes #theatre #street #alley #artsandculture #dance #lights #surreal (at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall)

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Day 265 of 365 Photo Challenge. The Britannia Music Hall (later known as The Panopticon or The Britannia Panopticon) in Trongate, Glasgow, Scotland is one of the oldest remaining music halls in Britain. It is located above an amusement arcade, at 113-117 Trongate. Built in 1857/58 by and for city builder Archibald Blair whose architects were Thomas Gildard and Robert H. M. MacFarlane,A the Trongate building was a speculative building, soon with lessees for each of its four shops on the street level. The floors above were advertised as being suitable for a drapery warehouse, but they opened as an entertainment centre, firstly as the Britannia Music Hall. Britannia Panopticon was an early building to become powered by electricity and one of the first cinema venues in Scotland. The Britannia Music Hall, leased to John Brand, opened on Christmas Day December 1859. Successive lessees include HT Rossborough, William Kean , Arthur Hubner and AE Pickard and was closed in 1938 when the Trongate building was sold by the Pickard family to the multiple tailors Weaver to Wearer Ltd of Leeds, which in the 1950s became part of Great Universal Stores Ltd. Fortunately, following the removal of the false ceiling on floor one in 2003, the Britannia was opened again. It is currently being conserved by a trust who regularly perform traditional shows in the auditorium. In 1977 the building became a category A listed building. The Britannia has hosted some of the biggest names on the Music hall circuit. In 1906 Stan Laurel made his first stage appearance there on amateur night. #glasgow #scotland #peoplemakeglasgow #visitglasgow #photooftheday #glasgow2019 #photography #365daychallenge #britanniapanopticon #theatre #historical #historicallandmark (at The Britannia Panopticon Music Hall) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2typuVhOhE/?igshid=15oww38z4bf4u

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A wee follow up to the Stone of Destiny post.

What a great picture, eh! The guy in the splendid tartan coat, chauffeur’s cap and driving gloves is eccentric music hall owner Albert Ernest Pickard with his car in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street.

He is showing to the street corner lads a box with “Hame Again” written on the side.

The date is December 29, 1950, when the police forces of Britain are searching for Scotland’s Stone of Destiny which had been stolen/repatriated from Westminster Abbey just days earlier.

Albert Ernest Pickard, owner of the Britannia Panopticon on Argyle Street, which combined a music hall with a zoo, had a bit of time to spare over the Christmas holidays, and he made his own Stone of Destiny out of chicken wire and papier mache which he then drove around Glasgow claiming he was bringing it back to Scotland.

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Nursery Dramaturgy: Angie Dight @ Glasgow

A unique night-time experience exploring the dark themes behind our beloved childhood stories, Nursery Crymes takes to the streets of Glasgow this November.

Audiences are encouraged to wrap up warm for a promenade performance through a specially-created Mother Goose's forest...and out the other side, winding round the streets of the city centre (and in and out of the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall) as they encounter installations, performances, sound works, projections, film and some twisted versions of well-known fairytale characters.

Scotland's renowned outdoor performance company Mischief La-Bas, aided and abetted by artists of all disciplines, explores the sinister side of nursery rhymes – the ideas of authority, morality and social indoctrination underpinning these simple stories for children. If the message is sung so sweetly, do we even notice the crime? Do we ever learn to question these early life lessons?

What was the inspiration for this performance?

It’s inspired by Nursery Rhymes, which were my first introductions to art, beauty and poetry when I was a child, what intrigues now is the darkness and history behind them. It also makes me question the impact such rhymes and stories have on the morality, indoctrination and established beliefs of the young. 

The name ‘Nursery Crymes’ came from the late Ian Smith – a perfect invitation to play with these dark themes and question innocence and guilt in both historic and contemporary society.

I love promenade performance, the mixing up of different art forms, breaking down the fourth wall and the blurring of realities which is at the root of all Mischief La-Bas’ work, as well as some humorous irreverence and audience interaction.

Nursery Crymes will incorporate all these elements.

Is performance still a good space for the public discussion of ideas? 

Absolutely, we are real people discussing real ideas, it is a very accessible way of learning new things, provoking questions, making us think, a platform for exploring both good and bad, in my opinion it doesn’t need to give answers but rather give us food for thought or inspire us to want to know more.

How did you become interested in making performance?

As the eldest child of four I made up the games, we wore cardigans on our heads as long hair, were married to the Monkees (Mickey Dolenz my choice ) our games involved living in different realities, everything was something else, my bike was the horse ‘silver moonlight’ and we went to different lands. I nearly always made my sister closest in age to me the boy. I read a lot of books when I was young and always lived in a bit of a dream

World – some might say I’ve never changed.

Performance might be an alternative reality but the experiences are still real.

Is there any particular approach to the making of the show?

There are many, we have invited Artists from various disciplines to make work that relates to dark themes from childhood rhymes or stories.  

Themes might be neglect, misogyny, religious persecution, torture eg, all these and more are found in many of these innocent childhood rhymes.

We are making work that is site-specific in that it responds to and incorporates the environment, in this case the alleyways between Osborne St and Argyle street and around and inside the Panopticon.

We are using the fabric of the buildings and lanes as well as creating our own installations.

As a promenade performance the audience will be ‘guided’ through the ‘show’ by different characters and performers, characters who should all resonate in some way with our past and possibly present experiences.

Does the show fit with your usual productions?

We generally make smaller audience interactions that tour or turn up somewhere unexpected, but occasionally we make larger scale work as well as work that incorporates the work of other Artists, alongside installations and our own Mischief La-Bas performers such as Nursery Crymes is.

Past shows that have worked similarly have been ‘Bull’ ’97-’98 ‘Painful Creatures’ 2003-4 and ‘Peeping at Bosch’ 2009 . As ex- circus folk, a big, multi-discipline, weird thing that incorporates all sorts is my dream gig. It’s super exciting, maybe the best game ever.

What do you hope that the audience will experience?

I really hope they will come away with many different experiences, but that they

will enjoy it and have a great night. I would like them to leave with questions that they find the answers to themselves the next day when they wake up, or even that night when they thaw out. I would love it to be an all encompassing experience for them, that they suspend belief and play along with us.

What strategies did you consider towards shaping this audience experience?

It’s a timed experience, so small (ish) groups should be able to fully enjoy the experience. Different aspects of the performance will give or demand different input from the audience, areas are structured quite differently from each other to facilitate varying experiences, the performance will constantly change and does not have a linear narrative.

The Artists and artworks involved all have very different approaches. We are encouraging the audience to look at or appreciate the environment in unusual ways by showing it in a different context to the way it is usually seen.

We are playing in the streets and we invite the audience to join us to do the same. We will be offering a free warm tipple in the Panopticon Britannia, as well as bringing people into this amazing Glasgow hidden gem. We are also offering a social opportunity to continue the evening in the warm in Avantgarde’s function room and bar. It would be great if people hung about and didn’t feel the need to rush off somewhere else.

I hope there will be plenty for people to enjoy.

Nursery Crymes will be a very large-scale performance, happening only on 24th and 25th November, with capacity for an audience of around 400 over two nights, in staggered groups. Artist/designer Bill Breckenridge is creating an immersive on-street set for certain parts of the experience, which will also include cross-disciplinary work from performance and visual artists including Liz Aggiss, Dav Bernard of 85A, Glas(s) Performance, Junction 25, Radiator Arts and Fiona Robertson.

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