MARIA DUARTE is swept along by the cocky self-belief of a ping-pong hustler in a surprisingly violent drama
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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]
STEVE ANDREW recommends a lively and often moving guide to once vibrant spaces that have been abandoned or swept away
GEOFF BOTTOMS appreciates the local touch brought to a production of Dickens’s perennial classic
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production whose design and cartoonish acting overwhelms the close scrutiny of characters
SUSAN DARLINGTON enjoys the raucous familiarity of a traditional topsy-turvy pantomime
RON JACOBS introduces the latest novel by the best writer of US working-class fiction writing today
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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