Citizens Theatre

A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Theatre director Phillip Breen discusses forthcoming adaptation of Peter Nichols' play

13 Sep 2011

Phillip Breen is only 32, but already he has the honour of straddling three regimes at the Citz. Straight out of university in 2003, he was taken on by Philip Prowse to direct The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, returning at the invitation of Jeremy…

Mark O'Rowe's lyrical and violent play Terminus to be revived at the Citz

The drama pairs Tarantino-esque clashes with rhyming monolgues

20 Apr 2011

Wondering what would happen if someone fell from one of the many construction cranes looming over Dublin at the time, writer/director Mark O’Rowe set himself a challenge by starting his play Terminus at the height of the action and let his imagination…

Citizens Theatre and Scottish Opera present double bill of family opera

Opera for children explores tricks and tools to delay going to bed

16 Feb 2011

Bedtime: bliss for adults, torture for kids – making it the ideal subject for a family opera. Written by Jehane Markham, with music by Orlando Gough, On the Rim of the World follows a family as they wind down at the end of the day, climb into bed and…

If You Prefer a Milder Comedian Please Ask for One - Stewart Lee interview

25 Feb 2010

In his new show, Stewart Lee compares himself to a raft of personalities who appear to have let themselves go: Ray Liotta, Morrissey, KD Lang and Terry Christian among them. In the flesh, 41-year-old Lee might be barely recognisable from the comedic…

Down under - Glasgow's South Side

10 Sep 2009

The West End might shout louder and jangle its designer bracelets more ostentatiously, but for its many residents, the gigantic, sprawling mass of the South Side is the true heart of Glasgow. As many local historians and geographers have observed…

The Sound of My Voice

A dark and powerful piece of entertainment

24 Aug 2009

This revival of an acclaimed two-hander from the Citizens Theatre has lost little of its power. Adapted from Ron Butlin’s novel by director Jeremy Raison, it tells the story of a biscuit company executive’s descent into alcoholism. The punishing…

Ghosts

28 May 2009

Of the two Ibsen revivals gracing Scottish stages at present, Dundee Rep and the National Theatre of Scotland’s award-winning Peer Gynt appears the more irreverent in its approach to the playwright’s satirical fantasy. On the surface at least, Jeremy…

Henrik Ibsen: Ghosts

30 Apr 2009

Fellow Norwegians Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Munch may have been born 35 years apart but, for a brief moment in the late 19th century, their artistic eras collided: Munch – who was yet to create his legacy, ‘The Scream’ – designed the set for Ghosts, a new…

Be Near Me

2 Apr 2009

LITERARY ADAPTATION You can see what attracted Ian McDiarmid to Andrew O’Hagan’s novel Be Near Me. The tale of a cultured, flawed priest who takes over a small parish in a stagnating Ayrshire community, becomes enchanted by a shrewd but low-achieving…

Be Near Me

19 Mar 2009

The story of a priest who stirs up a riot of anti-Catholic feeling in a Protestant Ayrshire town after a drunken fumble with a teenage boy might not instantly sound like it would travel well outside the west of Scotland or Ireland. But, since its…

Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness

19 Mar 2009

The Citz revives Anthony Neilson’s heartbreaking fable within a fairytale about a Victorian impresario, which is based around the conceit that the playwright has uncovered a late 19th century manuscript and is using it to create a series of…

Raising the curtain

15 Sep 2008

The List steps out from the wings and showcases the very best performance spaces and cherry picks the shows you cannot afford to miss.

Nominees revealed for 2008 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland

22 May 2008

Dundee Rep has been hailed as the frontrunner for the 2008 Critics' Awards for Theatre in Scotland (CATS). The Rep heads the bill with 13 nominations across 9 categories, including Best Performance in both the male and female categories, Best Ensemble…