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Dateline: 4th December, 2006
Spring at the Citz Glasgow's Citizens’ Theatre presents 29 new productions over the next six months in a spring season of classics and contemporary new work.
The Citizens Theatre Company and TAG will develop and produce eight productions. Opening the season in January will be TAG’s project with Glasgow’s Gaelic Arts Organisation, An Lochran. There’s No ‘V’ In Gaelic is a collection of stories inspired by the lives of Scottish women and will feature well-known Gaelic performers, Cathy Ann MacPhee, Kathleen MacInnes and Margaret Bennett.
Kicking off the season on the main stage is Roddy McMillan’s The Bevellers, a celebration of Glasgow working life, the pride of the skilled craftsmen and the often brutal camaraderie within that environment. A companion piece to the sell-out success of No Mean City last year, it continues the Citizens’ commitment to large-scale, home-grown revivals. In March is a pioneering collaboration between professional TAG actors and members of the Citizens’ Community and Young Company, Ice Cream Dreams. Written by Scottish writer and stage, film and tv actor Martin McCardie, it is a hard-hitting tale of drugs misuse but also a very human story about family love, set at the time of the notorious ice cream wars in Glasgow. This brand new play will be the first time that members of the Community Company or Young Company have performed on the main stage and the production will also feature new company members through Turning Point Scotland, a charity that tackles social exclusion from drugs misuse.
A new adaptation of both parts of Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize winning Angels In America in May completes the series of Citizens’ Company shows on an epic scale. Regarded as one of the defining works of 20th century drama, tackling the emotional issues surrounding the AIDS crisis in America during the mid-80s, it is a co-production with the Lyric Hammersmith and Headlong Theatre (previously Oxford Stage) which will open at the Citizens’ before an extensive tour of the UK. The cast includes Greg Hicks, stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company,and Ann Mitchell who achieved international recognition for her performance as Dolly in the seminal TV series, Widows. Young, up-and-coming director Daniel Kramer, who recently directed Bent in the West End, takes on one of his biggest projects to date.
Theatre for children outside of the traditional panto season still features prominently with The Citizens’ Theatre Company’s production of Wee Fairytales, traditional rhymes told in rich Scots language. Licketyspit Theatre Company present an adventure at sea, Green Whale, while Patrick Lynch takes us behind the mirror and beyond in his story of where dreams come from in The Dust Man.
The Citizens’ Community Company and Young Company continue their work at the very roots of the theatre. The Community Company take a cynical look at romance in a Valentine’s special, My Bloody Valentine, while the Young Company team up with contemporaries from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Cross Town Ensemble to present new work by young American playwrights.
The Citizens’ also invites the best touring shows on the UK circuit into the main theatre and studio spaces, with sixteen visiting productions and five student drama productions from across the spectrum of genres and backgrounds.
Mike Maran returns with two popular musical theatre shows, The Little World of Don Camillo and Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Visible Fictions stage their version of Jim Cartwright’s The Rise and Fall of Little Voice while character comedian Richard Thomson brings his successful Fringe Festival show, Rebus McTaggart. Theatre Babel move into the intimate stalls studio for an up close version of Ben Jonson’s Volpone and 7:84 mark the 300th Anniversary of the Act of Union between Scotland and England with Re:union. Literary adaptations also feature with the first ever stage version of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, Communicado tour Robin Jenkins’ Fergus Lamont, Rapture Theatre move to the main theatre for the first time with Arthur Miller’s Broken Glass and Anna Hepburn gives her moving solo interpretation of Iain Crichton Smith’s Consider The Lillies. Isosceles Theatre Company take on Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Northern Broadsides bring a Yorkshire-accented take on Shakespeare’s The Tempest and the award-winning creators of East is East and Strictly Dandia, Tamasha, reveal The Trouble With Asian Men. Finally, Glasgow born singer Terry Neason takes advantage of the informal warmth of the Circle Studio for four exclusive concerts of repertoire new and old.
Throughout the programme, the Citizens’ aim of remaining close to its local community while continuing to present internationally acclaimed work remains paramount. The aspiration is to be a locally accessible theatre with a global perspective and with fully professional shows available for just £3 on preview night and £6 every Tuesday for any seat in the house, the Citizens’ continues to strive to ensure its doors are open to all. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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