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Music: Sharon Shannon
Oran Mor, Byers Road, Glasgow
September 28
Once of legendary Irish-Scots band The Waterboys, Sharon Shannon has since continued to blossom in her own right. She’s worked with some of the greats — Jackson Browne, Nigel Kennedy, Willie Nelson, John Prine, Christy Moore — but perhaps her great achievement is in bringing the often neglected accordion back to the fore not just in Irish traditional music but contemporary genres too. Well worth a visit.
Theatre: The Crucible
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Quarry Hill, Leeds
September 15-16
This Arthur Miller classic, based on the Salem witch trials in 17th-century America, gets a revival at West Yorkshire Playhouse. First performed in the 1950s, during a period of anti-communist witch hunts, it still wields a theatrical power and thematic relevance which makes this something of a must-see production.
Exhibition: Screaming Steel — Art, War and Trauma 1914-18
Hatton Gallery, King’s Road, Newcastle
Until December 13
This exhibition explores creative responses to the industrialised killing fields of Europe 1914-18, which resulted in the production of significant 20th-century art and literature. It explores how artists and writers such as Paul Nash, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen captured the trauma of their experiences in work that still resonates. Workshops, poetry readings and other events are scheduled during the run of the exhibition.
Theatre: Pits and Perverts
Rada Studio Theatre, Chenies Street, London WC1
October 1-3
Lyric Theatre, Ridgeway Street, Belfast
October 8-11
Mixing gay activists, macho miners, the Thatcher government and a homophobic media during the 1984 miners’ strike, this critically acclaimed comedy drama takes its title from a Sun headline at the time which references the links between groups such as Lesbian and Gays Support the Miners with support groups in south Wales. It celebrates the blossoming of solidarity and aims to show that these different struggles are the outcome of the same oppression and that if these different communities work together, great things can happen.
