Up a Close

Following multiple SELL-OUT runs in 2023 and 2024 and two SELL-OUT performances at Glasgow's iconic Pavilion Theatre, 'Up a Close' is coming to The Denny Civic Theatre, Dumbarton. The story of Joanna recounting her life in a Glasgow tenement flat, has brough joy, laughter and tears to Scottish audiences. Up A Close tells the story of Joanna, reflecting on her life in her Partick tenement flat when her husband doesnt come home one night. As she reminisces about her marriage, her children, and growing up in the 1970s, the audience is taken on a journey through family, friendship, and the ups and downs of working-class Glasgow life. From childhood mischief with her best friend Anne Marie to schooldays under the watchful eye of the nuns and dancing up the toon to the Bay City Rollers, Joannas story is filled with laughter, poignancy, and pure Glasgow banter.