Unemployed actor and compulsive gambler McLuckie waits nervously in a claustrophobic corridor of a Glasgow hospital. He’s expecting the phone call he’s been waiting for his whole life – what could go wrong? Place your bets! Read more …
This makes for a loose-limbed fanfare for the common man that demystifies the business of show while suggesting matters of life and death are elsewhere.
It is a brash, witty and, at times, moving insight into the story of one man’s battle to break from the days of his childhood, without ever really succeeding.
An unsentimental yet moving portrait of masculinity and working class politics.
His stories of the community from which he comes have an energy and poetry that is funny, angry and elegiac.
Hooks the audience from the off.
McLuckie's Line: A Love Letter to Scottish Theatre
Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow from Wednesday April 25, 2018, until Saturday April 28, 2018. More info: www.citz.co.uk
On Tour, from Saturday September 1, 2018, until Saturday September 29, 2018.