Divided City

Back by popular demand, the musical theatre production of Divided City, based on the award-winning book by Theresa Breslin.

Featuring a cast of over 50 young people drawn from Glasgow Secondary Schools. Read more …

Set against a backdrop of the Orange marching season, Graham and Joe are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker and his Glaswegian girlfriend when all they really want to do is play football for Glasgow City. Can friendship pull them through?

A gripping tale about two boys, one Celtic fan, one Rangers fan, who must find their own answers in a divided world.

Glasgow City Council Education Services and the Citizens Theatre collaborate on this exciting musical theatre project as part of Creative Scotland’s Youth Music Initiative programme.

The critical consensus

The result is a show that radiates a fierce teenge energy, as if someone had taken the mouthy charm of an episode of The Inbetweeners, and given if it a sharp , passionate injection of moral purpose, and sheer Glaswegian love of place.

(*) Joyce McMillan, 09/02/2012