More bonkers-ness
Categories: glasgow
Tags: photos, theatre, Sharmanka, art
Date: 11 April 2010 19:42:15
Less than a week after seeing Guernsey's Little Chapel (see below post; verdict: bonkers) HD and I took a trip into town to have an adventure. The place we were going was somewhere we've been meaning to visit for ages and ages and never quite got round to, and oh my goodness it's a gem!
It is also bonkers.
So where did we go? The Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, that's where. The wikipedia entry for the theatre describes it as "Heath Robinson meets Hieronymous Bosch" - as we were going round, I was thinking it was more "Banksy meets Tim Burton in a scrapyard, with lots of vodka". And probably some acid. It really is quite extraordinary- here are some photos:
As if that wasn't all wonderful enough, downstairs (the theatre is part of a newish complex at Trongate 103) is a wonderfully decorated Russian cafe called Cossachok which looks like it has a pretty decent menu, must try that out sometime, but also has some brilliant decoration:
And next to the Russian cafe is another gallery, where at the moment (though it's the last day today so sorry not to alert you before!) there is, rather surreally, an art exhibition called "Tunnocked!" celebrating the wonder that is the Tunnock's Teacake (that well-known Scottish delicacy) (note that other Scottish icon Greyfriars Bobby in the final picture):
