Foyer party pics

Further to our birthday party pics, we have received some lovely pictures of the foyer from one of our party guests, Anthony Brannan - who is the photographer behind so many of our fantastic archive pictures. When I get a second (...like that's going to happen!) I hope to scan lots of our old photos, which were on display at the party to add to Flickr. Here, in the meantime are Anthony's atmospheric shots of the decorated foyer.

HxP.S. If you haven't been to the Citizens' Theatre and like the look of our foyer statues, you can get the full tour and find out about the theatre's fascinating history this weekend for Glasgow's annual Doors Open day. Tours are completely free, but have a limited capacity. There will be 7 tours on Saturday, which commence at 10.15am. You can't pre-book, so turn up early to secure your place!

Birthday Party Photos

Here are a few of photos from TAG's 40th birthday party at the Citizens' Theatre. You can see lots more here.

TAG party

Given that things are so busy this week, I just wanted to offer a very brief, but very heartfelt thanks to everyone who either helped to set up or attended TAG's 40th birthday party at the Citizens' Theatre on Monday night. We had such a great night and it was lovely to see so many faces from our past. I will add some pictures to our Flickr site next week.

Hx

Scottish Theatre Archive

I spent most of yesterday buried deep in the Special Collections Department of Glasgow University Library. The 12th floor houses the Scottish Theatre Archive which is currently home to about 200 boxes/files of TAG's historical information. This is, as yet uncatalogued, but Donella Stirling (a firm friend of TAG/Citizens') and myself were granted access to the bowels of the store room to trawl through our papers.

Our work formed the next stage of a mammoth hunt for the names of all the people who have worked for TAG in the past - which we are gathering in advance of our 40th birthday party at the end of August.

The only problem was uncovering too many distracting and interesting stories and photos. I think a few more trips will be on the cards.

Hx

A blast from the past

Back in the day...
TAG was performing to an audience of children "known to Social Work". The Social Worker said, "Did you enjoy it?" Teenager replies "Aw it was shite!" Social Worker persists, "But was it good shite or bad shite?" Teenager thinks for a bit, and responds, "Well, I suppose it was no bad, fur shite!" Social Worker turns round and says to me "She really enjoyed it."

This brilliant anecdote was sent to us by someone who has worked with TAG over the years.
TAG is 40 years old this year and to celebrate this we are trying to trace all the people who have worked with us since 1967…this is a rather daunting task, to say the least. If you worked for TAG, please send an email here, telling us your name, postal address, email, telephone and details of your time with TAG.

Reminiscences welcomed!

Hx