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Fever Dream: Southside

Fever Dream: Southside

High summer in Glasgow’s Southside and a heat wave bears down on the residents of Govanhill, driving them off the streets. Tensions are running high and fantasy and reality are becoming blurred.  Read more …

Fighting to reclaim their neighbourhood, the lives of a sleep-deprived new parent and his civic-minded wife begin to unravel. Meanwhile an ambitious Hutchie boy, a pair of young missionaries, a performance artist and her alter ego and an unscrupulous property manager, are forced to confront their monsters.


The critical consensus

The sheer vitality and timeliness of Maxwell’s ideas make all of these madnesses worth enduring; in an evening that is often ill-judged, but also far more vivid, timely and true than a whole fistful of shows that are more tasteful, more shapely, and almost instantly forgotten.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 26/04/2015

With any over-riding ennui undercut by some very Maxwellian one-liners, this is an extravagant and audacious ramble through a city's fractured psyche in all its imagined excess.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 26/04/2015

Fever Dream: Southside is a show that begs for the construction of a united community; for Glasgow’s identity to be proud and prosperous; for us all to stand as one in the city that belongs to us. But it certainly has a strange way of conveying it.

****(*)Rachel Clark, The Public Reviews, 26/04/2015

It’s funny and adventurous, despite times when Maxwell keeps too many narrative plates spinning, and you lose sight of where he’s heading. Dominic Hill’s production is characteristically fluid, but he lets a couple of performances lose their grounding in reality even before the play’s magical realism kicks in.

****(*)Mark Fisher, The Guardian, 28/04/2015

Glasgow’s southside enters into theatrical mythology.

****(*)Gareth K Vile, The Stage, 27/04/2015

Even though it lacks a certain punch, it’s a thoroughly enjoyable journey.

***(*)(*)Charlotte Hathaway, TVBomb, 29/04/2015

Not funny enough often enough, the play swings between sub-standard sitcom and ambitiously surreal, but ultimately failed, soap opera.

Mark Brown, Scottish Stage, 29/04/2015

Maxwell’s script is only patchily engaging, and though the playwright is to be commended for his attempt to explore a city’s dark underbelly, in the end one can’t help feeling that this overlong piece would have benefited from a few cuts and some structural adjustments.

**(*)(*)(*)Allan Radcliffe, 28/04/2015

It deserves kudos for exploring a singular oddball Glasgow that is off the map.

***(*)(*)Lorna Irvine, The List, 29/04/2015

Where and when?

Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow from Thursday April 23, 2015, until Saturday May 9, 2015. More info: www.citz.co.uk

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