THEATRE director Andy Arnold – who is leaving Glasgow’s Tron Theatre after 15 successful years at the helm – is one of the most important…
THEATRE director Andy Arnold – who is leaving Glasgow’s Tron Theatre after 15 successful years at the helm – is one of the most important figures to have emerged in Scottish theatre in the last 40 years. Originally from Essex, he has spent most of his life in Scotland.
During Arnold’s 17 years at The Arches, audiences were treated to a superb production of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible . There was also an evening of the short works of Samuel Beckett, and celebrated productions of plays by Harold Pinter and David Mamet.One of Arnold’s finest Arches company productions – an unforgettable rendering of Irish writer Brian Friel’s astonishing play Translations – was staged at the Citizens Theatre in 2008, shortly before the director’s transfer to the Tron.
It was played by an impressive cast of Irish and Scottish actors, including, in the key role of Molly Bloom, a fabulous performance by Irish actor-director Muireann Kelly .I caught up with Arnold just as his final Tron production – Gary McNair’s Dickens-inspired Nae Expectations, starring Karen Dunbar and Gerry Mulgrew – was opening at the Glasgow theatre. Looking back over his career thus far , Arnold shares my enthusiasm for his production of Ulysses.
This was followed by touring to Ireland and, fascinatingly, China. The latter “opened up a new chapter” in Arnold’s career, he says. Arnold calculates that, taking into account inflation , his theatre’s artistic budget is down by around a quarter. The Scottish arts continue to face “grim times”, he insists.
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