Set in 1965 in Anderston, Glasgow and examines the reaction of deserted husband, Billy Speirs and his family to the return of his estranged wife, Bernie, whose mother has been taken seriously ill.
It is a tale of bitterness and betrayal but also of the absolute enduring strength of love at a time when a community was being sliced up to make way for a stretch of inner-city motorway and the Glasgow Kingston Bridge. Just as the earmarking of Anderston as a Glasgow Comprehensive Development Area faced mixed reactions, the couple’s tentative and nervous steps back to one another face opposition and difficulty and as the opinion of much of the community at that time, it was clear that things were never going to be the same again.
The heart was getting ripped out of the place, just as it had been ripped out of Billy. Decisions have to be made, loyalties examined and painful truths faced. Better days were coming, however, in the promise of new corporation housing and it is against this backdrop of demolition and renewal that Building Bridges opens.
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MARIE DUNLOP
Marie Dunlop was born in Anderston, Glasgow and moved out after starting school when the redevelopment of the area and the building of the Kingston Bridge started. She is a wife, a mother, a grandmother and a graduate of The Open University, reading English Language and Literature.
She also does work within the homelessness sector. Set in Anderston in the mid-nineteen-sixties, Building Bridges is the second of her plays and she is currently working on a crime novel, again set in the West of Scotland.
DIANE BROOKS
Cast
Diane Brooks - Nellie / Bridget
Natalie Moore Williams - Bernie
John Scougall - Billy
Etta McGroarty - Detta
Lucy Goldie - Issey
Barry Robertson - Hugh
Production
Directed by Barry Robertson
Edited by Barry Robertson
Engineered by Stevie Bull
NATALIE MOORE WILLIAMS
JOHN SCOUGALL
ETTA MCGROARTY
LUCY GOLDIE
BARRY ROBERTSON
In the Press
Recomendation
Rab's fortunes have declined along with the fishing industry in which he has worked all his life, but now he eyes a glimpse of hope.
Catherine Czerkawska's short play The Price of a Fish Supper was first performed at Òran Mór, Glasgow, as part of the A Play, a Pie and a Pint season in March 2005.
