MAYER WAKEFIELD applauds Rosamund Pike’s punchy and tragic portrayal of a multi-tasking mother and high court judge
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A tender portrayal of real people
The memorable and moving play has now been filmed to great dramatic effect
HEARTBREAKING: Maureen Carr, Jonathan Watson, Suzanne Magowan and Ali Craig in Fibres last year
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FIONA O CONNOR recommends an unflinching depiction of child sexual abuse and its aftershocks, set in a working-class Liverpool family
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PAUL DONOVAN relishes the spectacle of a 1950s detective in pursuit of a 500-year-old murder mystery
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
Fibres (14+)
Directed by Jemima Levick
Citizens Theatre Glasgow
IT IS the outright identification with working women that makes Francis Poet’s outstanding play Fibres so effective.
In the film Maureen Carr reprises her part as the central character Beanie who has been poisoned with asbestos from washing her husband’s clothes.
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