www.lyceum.org.uk/killjohnny | #killjohnny | 17 Sept - 11 Oct 2014
Please note: Trailer contains strong language
KILL JOHNNY GLENDENNING
By DC Jackson
Directed by Lyceum Artistic Director Mark Thomson
A brutal comedy of fatal errors
“You died as you lived - an extra in a second rate James Cagney picture being recreated by halfwits and junkies.”
Andrew MacPherson has many legitimate business interests: a security firm, taxis, a couple of Renfrewshire bus routes, several pubs and even a secret shareholding in Rangers. Johnny 'the bastard' Glendenning is the self styled Tony Blair of Ulster loyalist gunmen. In a farmhouse far out in the wilds of Ayrshire they are on a deadly collision course. Caught between them are a farmer, his mother, two thugs, a sleazy tabloid hack and some pigs with a taste for human flesh.
Kill Johnny Glendenning is a murderous comedy of the Glasgow underworld, taking aim at the tabloid celebrity and macho glamour of the gangster life.
Kill Johnny Glendenning is a co-production between the Royal Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
