Autumn at Citizens Theatre

Published: 28 June 2015
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

New musical, The Choir, written by Paul Higgins with songs by Deacon Blue singer and songwriter Ricky Ross

Citizens Theatre has announced its autumn season.

In the programme is a selection of new work including The Choir written by Paul Higgins with songs by Deacon Blue singer and songwriter Ricky Ross and David Greig's adaptation of Lanark by Alasdair Gray.

Lanark will also play the Edinburgh International Festival whilst Citizens Theatre Learning visits the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Beacon Arts Centre and Òran Mór with a funny but hard-hitting play about sectarianism, Scarfed for Life by Martin Travers.

In Progression 2015, Citizens Theatre’s Deaf Theatre Club partner Solar Bear curates two days of performance and events for deaf and hearing participants and audiences. Included are a double bill from Russian theatre company Nedoslov and a devised piece of theatre inspired by Alice In Wonderland from Sweden’s Tyst Teater.

The Close Theatre Anniversary Season celebrates 50 years of the Close Theatre Club, associated with the Citz since its inception.

As a private members’ club, it was able to present plays which would otherwise have been censored from a public stage, such radical and risqué programming during the '70s, '80s and '90s making the Citizens famous across the world.

Inspired by the spirit and ethos of the original Close Theatre the programme is comprised of Howard Barker's Lot and His God, a double bill of surrealist drama by Sławomir Mrożekp presented in association with Citizens Theatre Cultural Tenants Vanishing Point, and Vanya by prize–winning emerging writer Sam Holcroft, a distillation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya.

Visiting the venue is Dragon by Vox Motus, National Theatre of Scotland and Tianjin Childrens’ Arts Theatre, and finally for the festive season is Rapunzel written by Annie Siddons, to be directed by Lu Kemp.

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