The historic Citizens Theatre in the Gorbals, which closed for major redevelopment work in June 2018, will reopen in September 2025 with Small Acts Of Love, a new theatrical and musical collaboration between playwright Frances Poet and Deacon Blue singer Ricky Ross.
Spanning 36 years, the play tells the story of how two communities from the Scottish Borders and New York State were forced together in destruction, but through a series of small acts of kindness found friendship and love.
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It includes representations of real people built from an extensive series of interviews with those directly affected by the Lockerbie bombing, both in Scotland and the US.
Poet said: “I don’t think I have written anything before where I have felt such a weight of responsibility to tell people’s stories with…


