Citizens Theatre
Victorian playhouse crowned by rooftop statues of Burns, Shakespeare and four muses.
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This guide to the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow's Gorbals starts with the six stone figures on its roofline, Burns and Shakespeare among them, and the sculptor John Mossman who carved them in eighteen seventy-eight. It follows a set of columns first made for the City of Glasgow Bank, and a builder who found another use for them. Later it turns to Giles Havergal's company and the price of a seat. Stand across Gorbals Street so you can see the whole roofline.
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