Battle lines are drawn across 400 years, from Glasgow to Russia, as two families prepare to become one. This audio play leads audiences through the public streets and hidden spaces of Glasgow, as Poorboy returns to the city bringing its world of rituals, fairytale and the dark corners of family alive with lies, music, soundscape, smells, and its imaginative curation of visual art, photography and film.

 

"Sandy Thomson and her team have a real flair when it comes to transforming ordinary locations into the stuff of dramatic encounters"

The Herald

 

Critically acclaimed Scottish company, Poorboy returns to Glasgow with its latest site-specific sensory adventure. Travelling between sites and installations around the city centre, with an mp3 player as your guide, Blood & Roses invites you to take a non-traditional look at the traditional themes of ritual, loyalty and ideas of home.

 

Experience first-hand the universal, intergenerational ritual of marriage and the ways in which it is celebrated through smells and textures, soundscape and music, photos and short films.

 

Poorboy has a prestigious track record of working in found spaces and of ambitiously appropriating the vistas and visuals of everyday life into its exhilarating and involving stories. Its dramatic re-imaginings have been critically acclaimed and are underpinned by the company’s bold explorations of cross disciplinary collaborative working.