Citizens Theatre autumn 2014 season

Published: 25 May 2014
Reporter: Sandra Giorgetti

Hamlet - Brian Ferguson will take the title role

At the centre of the line up for the autumn at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre is a new production of Hamlet.

To be directed by artistic director Dominic Hill, Brian Ferguson will take the title role. His recent credits include Black Watch and Dunsinane for National Theatre of Scotland. Husband and wife Roberta Taylor and Peter Guinness will take the roles of Gertrude and Claudius.

Hill will also direct the Christmas show, a new production of A Christmas Carol adapted by Neil Bartlett from Charles Dickens’s classic.

Amongst the visitors are National Theatre of Scotland with political drama In Time O’ Strife set in a Fife mining community. Written in 1926 by Joe Corrie, the play has been adapted by director Graham McLaren and incorporates fragments of Corrie’s other work, folk-punk songs and choreography.

Visitors also start the season: Headlong takes its production of 1984 to Glasgow for its Scottish première following an extended run in the West End.

For comic relief, there is farce with Whisky Galore and comedy with Kill Johnny Glendenning by young Scottish writer D C Jackson. A co-production between the Citizens and Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh, this Glasgow underworld–set play will be directed by Lyceum artistic director Mark Thomson.

The studio will house two Gaelic plays, both to be directed by Liz Carruthers. These are a new adaptation of Burns's epic poem Tam O' Shanter called Tomas translated by Donald MacIntyre and adapted and performed by David Walker, and Fantom by Kenny Macrae, based on the legend of the 1830s serial-killer Mac an t-Sronaich.

The venue is also home to Untitled Projects' Slope. Stewart Laing directs Pamela Carter’s play about the enfants terribles of French poetry Paul Verlaine and Arthur Rimbaud and the impact of their affair on Verlaine’s young wife.

Captioned and audio described performances have been programmed and age restrictions apply to some productions. For further information and booking visit the Citizens Theatre web site.

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