Backbeat | Theatre review

Citizens, GlasgowTheatre is ill-equipped to ­represent other art forms. It can cope with ­portraying a brilliant painter, but ­struggles to show off a brilliant ­painting. It can convince us that a play's Â­characters are in a top pop group, but risks shattering the ­illusion the moment they start strumming their guitars.That is why it is bold for writer and director Iain ­Softley to bring his 1994 movie to the stage. Not only is ­Backbeat about the early days of the Be...

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