Inspiring true story is returning to Glasgow after a successful run in London.
The modern Scottish musical Glasgow Girls, which is based on a real-life political campaign started by a group of teenage girls from the city, is returning to the Citizens Theatre as part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme.
The show’s world premiere was held at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow in 2012, and led to a successful run at Theatre Royal Stratford East, London in 2013.
Glasgow Girls is based on real-life events from the Scottish city in 2005.
A group of seven young women from Drumchapel High School started a successful campaign against the poor treatment of refused asylum seekers and undertook one of the most vocal and powerful pro-asylum seeker campaigns in the country.
They achieved cross-party political support and in 2010 the policy of detaining children for immigration purposes was ended.
The Glasgow Girls’ campaign has been credited by the Scottish Refugee Council as “an instrumental catalyst in the process towards this important change in policy.”
BBC Three has also recently commissioned a film about the real-life Glasgow Girls which will air in summer 2014 as part of the BBC’s Commonwealth Games programming.
The production will return to the Citizens from Thursday February, 20 to Saturday, March 8, with matinees on Saturday 1 and 8 of March.
Glasgow Girls – Trailer from National Theatre of Scotland on Vimeo.
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