5/13/2023 0 Comments Lanark by Alasdair Gray![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A member of the tech crew announced that, in order to test the sound, he would read out an entire year’s worth of winning lottery numbers. When I arrived, the cast and crew had just run through a scene in which a woman’s skin becomes covered in mouths. I was in the city to see a rehearsal of “Lanark,” an adaptation, by the playwright David Greig and the director Graham Eatough, of the novel by Alasdair Gray, which débuted at the Edinburgh International Festival, on August 23rd, in celebration of Gray’s eightieth year. I walked by the recently re-opened Clutha Vaults, a pub famously crashed into by a helicopter, in 2013. Boxy flower bouquets put up by the city council looked a bit like faces. Tall merchant houses alternated with blinkered pieces of modernism. I arrived there on a gray day in the first half of August, after walking by the water through misty rain, alongside skimming seagulls. The Citizens Theatre is located in the Gorbals, a historically poor and relatively abandoned area of Glasgow, south of the River Clyde. ![]()
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