GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
A tender portrayal of real people
The memorable and moving play has now been filmed to great dramatic effect
HEARTBREAKING: Maureen Carr, Jonathan Watson, Suzanne Magowan and Ali Craig in Fibres last year
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PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
JOHN GREEN, MICHAL BONCZA and BELLA KATZ review The Good Boy, Broken English, and Don't Be Prey
Fibres (14+)
Directed by Jemima Levick
Citizens Theatre Glasgow
IT IS the outright identification with working women that makes Francis Poet’s outstanding play Fibres so effective.
In the film Maureen Carr reprises her part as the central character Beanie who has been poisoned with asbestos from washing her husband’s clothes.
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