STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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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
[Jassy Earl]
TOM STONE urges you to catch the last dates of a New York singer/songwriter, never afraid to challenge her audiences musically or politically
JAN WOOLF examines work that aims to give viewers a material experience of the environments in the polar north and Britain equally affected by the climate crisis
The bard recalls advice received 50 years ago from his TRB muse, and sorts out appropriate legislation for football club ownership
MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE review Facing War, Kontinental ’25, Bugonia, and Relay
MAYER WAKEFIELD is frustrated by a production of Ibsen’s classic study of an anti-heroine that fails to elucidate her motivations
PETER MASON tunes his ear into the domestic affairs of a Carribbean couple with a troublesome son
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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