Theatre Jezebel and Glasgay! bring you the Scottish premiere of Colin Higgins’ stage play, which opened in New York in 1980, of the cult 1971 movie Harold and Maude. Read more …
Harold is a 19 year old rich kid bored with wealth and obsessed with death. He regularly stages mock suicides to shock his socialite mother, attends funerals and drives a hearse.
Maude is a 79 year old widow who takes the best from any situation, even funerals.
Harold meets Maude at a funeral and their extraordinary friendship begins to blossom.
“I like you Harold”
“I like you Maude”
Maude teaches Harold how to grasp life and live it to the full.
"Reach out, take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can.”
Harold and Maude is an eccentric yet beautiful love story full of dark humour, which is as meaningful today as it was 40 years ago when this cult story hit the cinema screens.
In the end, the feeling is of watching an engaging and, occasionally moving, cut-down facsimile of the original, but one without the original’s full emotional reach.
Its visual flair, its discipline, and its lack of sentimentality mark it out as a show well worth seeing, beautiful, strange, and finally very moving indeed.
Harold and Maude & I Heart Alice Heart I @ Glasgay!
A new stage to explore Scot-free identity
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday October 30, 2012, until Saturday November 3, 2012. More info: www.tron.co.uk