The GFF, one of the UK’s biggest and best festivals dedicated to the art of film, celebrating everything from new international and independent movies to beloved cult classics, is back this February 15 – 26. The 13th annual Glasgow Film Festival has announced its line-up, which includes UK premieres of titles such as Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro, Terrence Malick’s Voyage … [Read more...] about Stars including David Tennant to shine at Glasgow Film Festival
Review: The Gorbals Vampire at Citizens Theatre
Armed to the teeth with bats, pots, pans, sticks, and even whisks as makeshift chibs, hundreds of Gorbals kids take to the gothic Southern Necropolis to have a square-go with the beast plaguing their town and eating their classmates in Johnny McKnight’s new play, The Gorbals Vampire. With a moody and atmospheric elongated stage and the backdrop of a dark clouded sky stained … [Read more...] about Review: The Gorbals Vampire at Citizens Theatre
Glasgowist Meets The Gorbals Vampire playwright Johnny McKnight
Over 60 years after the notorious Gorbals vampire was said to be creeping around ‘the gravy’ in the Southern Necropolis, a new play on the dramatic real-life events by Johnny McKnight is set to hit the Citizens Theatre this weekend. In 1954, the rumour mill churned out the tale of a monster with iron teeth who had supposedly kidnapped and eaten two young Gorbals schoolboys. … [Read more...] about Glasgowist Meets The Gorbals Vampire playwright Johnny McKnight
Review: Trainspotting at Citizen Theatre
More than two decades after the original stage play of Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting was performed at Citizens Theatre in 1994, Harry Gibson’s theatrical adaptation returned on Friday. Directed by main stage director-in-residence Gareth Nicholls, this incarnation of what is arguably Scotland’s biggest cult followed story burst onto the stage with a fresh look and updated … [Read more...] about Review: Trainspotting at Citizen Theatre
Preview: Trainspotting at Citizens Theatre
With the highly anticipated release of Trainspotting 2, expected to arrive at cinemas in February 2017, Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre is revisiting the original Trainspotting stage production, adapted from Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel. Twenty two years after the first theatrical production of the story that defined Scotland's 80s heroin epidemic for the 90s pre-New Labour … [Read more...] about Preview: Trainspotting at Citizens Theatre