Arts News

THE CITIZENS’ Theatre has announced details of the final season to be presented at its home at 119 Gorbals Street before work commences on a major redevelopment of the iconic Glasgow venue.

Prior to the Citizens Theatre Company temporarily moving out of its premises next summer, it will mount a full spring programme ending in May 2018.

The theatre will then stage work across Glasgow for the duration of its multi-million pound project to transform the Gorbals theatre.

Following the announcement earlier this year of a co-production with HOME Manchester of Long Day’s Journey Into Night, the theatre has released full listings for this eclectic Spring 2018 season, which goes on sale today.

The Spring 2018 season will include: Bold Girls, a revival of Rona Munro’s award-winning play.

Former River City star Deirdre Davis leads an all-female cast in this hilarious and poignant story of love, friendship and betrayal, set in working class Belfast against the backdrop of the Troubles.

LongDay’s Journey Into Night: A seminal work of 20th century American drama. Dominic Hill directs Eugene O’Neill’s play about the struggles of the Tyrone family in a Citizens’ Theatre co-production with HOME Manchester.

A Night to Remember: As the Citizens Theatre Company prepares to temporarily move out of its Gorbals home, this community production takes audiences back in time to the building’s origins as the Royal Princess’s Theatre for an evening of variety set on one eventful night in 1918.

Dialectics and drink

YOUNG Marx will be broadcast live to cinemas across the UK and internationally from the new Bridge Theatre on Thursday December 7th as part of National Theatre Live.

Olivier award-winning actor Rory Kinnear (The Threepenny Opera, Penny Dreadful, Othello) is Marx and Oliver Chris (Twelfth Night, One Man, Two Guvnors, Green Wing) is Engels, in this new comedy written by Richard Bean and Clive Coleman.

Directed by by Olivier and Tony award winning director Nicholas Hytner, Young Marx reunites the creative team behind the Broadway and West End hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors. This production is the first collaboration between the Bridge andNational Theatre Live.

Set in 1850, and Europe’s most feared terrorist is hiding in Dean Street, Soho. “Broke, restless and horny,” the thirty-two-year-old revolutionary is a frothing combination of intellectual brilliance, invective, satiric wit, and child-like emotional illiteracy.

But there’s still no one in the capital who can show you a better night on the town than Karl Heinrich Marx.

Since launching in 2009, National Theatre Live broadcasts have been seen by an audience of over 7 million people at 2500 venues in 60 countries.

Fake news

AN ABERDEEN artist has been crowned the 21st National Open Art Scotland Artist of the Year.

Lyndsey Gibb has won for a paper cut out called Misinformation, which explores the notion that things are true when they are delivered in a particular format such as a map or a passport.

Gibb’s work will be exhibited at the Oxo Tower’s Bargehouse in London at the 21st National Open Art Exhibition until November 26), which showcases the best in British and Irish contemporary art, photography and short film.

For more information visit www.nationalopenart.org