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Valhalla!

Valhalla!

The Tron Theatre Company present another madcap summer comedy.

As camp as Carry On, as outrageously funny as Cooking With Elvis, as historically accurate as Blackadder, the Tron Theatre Company invites you to enter the glittering halls of Valhalla this summer. Read more …

Ludwig has a bit of trouble with reality. Obsessed by a world of legendary heroes and magic swans, he’s unfortunately also a Bavarian prince under pressure to find a bride, sharpish. James is in love with beauty (and his best friend) and just wants to get out of small-town Texas. But in 1940’s America that isn’t so easy...

Two boys, a century apart, find that love and madness are sometimes the same thing. And in pursuit of their own visions, they discover that anything is possible if you have faith, hope… and impeccable taste in home décor.

Based on the true events of the life of ‘Mad’ Ludwig of Bavaria, Paul Rudnick’s bawdily funny romp through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries sweeps its audience along on a stream of brilliant one-liners, waspish wit and wonderful Wagnerian music. Humpbacked princesses, Texan redneck preachers, operatic splendour, crystal swans and a shotgun wedding await you...


The critical consensus

This show really shouldn't work. But it does. Brilliantly

View from the Stalls

As flamboyant as an opera high on speed...wears its heart on its sleeve.

Michael Cox, Onstage Scotland

It's so easy to laugh

****(*)Mary Brennan, The Herald

Sometimes the cast give sketch-show caricatures where the script calls for New York brashness, but more typically, they bring a very funny vaudevillian energy.

****(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian

This may be the most fun you will have in a Scottish theatre this summer, forthcoming festivals notwithstanding.

Robert Dawson Scott, STV

Shamelessly lewd and crude

****(*)Allan Radcliffe, The List

A mind-blowingly vivid and shamelessly self-adoring Tron Theatre production.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman


Features about Valhalla!

The mad king and I...

Neil Cooper, The Herald

Ludwig looks for love

Brian Beacom, Evening Times

Valhalla! brings together Jewish and Glaswegian comedy...via Bavaria

Mark Brown, The Herald

Where and when?

Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday July 6, 2010, until Saturday July 24, 2010. 7.30pm. Preview Performances: 6th & 7th July (£7.50). Tickets: £6.50-£14.50. More info: www.tron.co.uk

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