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Fishnet – written by award-winning journalist Kirstin Innes, has been optioned for development as a serial for television. I devoured this memoir on a flight (and then, in a happy haze, left my iPad in the seat-pocket, argh). He discovers that stories can save your life and — in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS, and Clause 28 — manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club. The production will premiere at Glasgow’s Tron Theatre in May before touring to Inverness, Perth, Cumbernauld, Dundee and Edinburgh. Chapters 7 and 8 are particularly finely crafted: the former recounts escaping from his mum’s boyfriend, Logan, and is a perfect full circle of a narrative; the latter is about his Auntie Cat’s mental breakdown.

I found it sometimes very uncomfortable to read with many acts of domestic violence, child abuse, bullying, homophobia and just sheer heartache. I found Maggie and Me, by Damian Barr, to be one of those moving books that you just know is going to make an important statement.You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Devastating and formally ingenious, it traces the paths by which historical grief engenders present violence .

Audio Description provides a live commentary (through a headset) of the action on stage, interspersed with the actors’ dialogue.Maggie Thatcher emerges from the rubble, dusty but defiant and somehow in the living room of 8-year-old Damian Barr in Newarthill, North Lanarkshire. Watching a woman in her forties go from disgraced Catholic dropout to all black and grey wearing feminist fag hag with three degrees. Similarly, Damian’s extraordinary book not only defines the experience of a generation of Thatcher’s children but will offer viewers an original, joyful and universal story about the triumph of the human spirit. There are a lot of vivid scenes in this memoir, some of them distressing ones of abuse, and the present tense, dialect, and childish grammar and slang give it authenticity. Adapted for stage by Damian Barr and James Ley, and directed by Suba Das, this bold and explosive new production is coming to Scottish stages in 2024.