Citizens Theatre

Backstory:

I was spotted by Robert David MacDonald in a performance at the Cockpit and he asked me to come up to be in his production of ‘The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd‘. So, off I went with just a couple of plays under my belt to be given an Equity card. It was to be a mind expanding six months of my life as I moved 389 miles from home and joined the company of the now legendary Citizens’ Theatre  in Glasgow. The group was run by three extremely independent, intellectual gay men. The triumvirate of Giles Havergal, Robert David MacDonald and Philip Prowse. Between them, they had taken this space in the poorest slums in the Gorbals and created over time a vibrant, art driven, challenging theatre company. Which loved the classics, explored taboos, discussed social issues and pursued a love of the theatrical in all their productions. Using elaborate sets, costume designs, lighting and sound. All were pushed as far as they could, as were the actors. They were fiercely democratic, listing the entire company in their programmes in alphabetical order and keeping tickets as cheap as they could to allow anyone to see theatre of the highest calibre.