Save the Ramshorn?

This evening I attended Bold Girls, which could be the penultimate theatrical production to take place at the Ramshorn Theatre in Glasgow. Home to the Strathclyde University Drama Centre, its amateur theatre group and a number of drama courses, but if the university gets it’s way, the Ramshorn may soon be no more, or perhaps a block of flats or a pub or something worse.

Being in this former church, surrounded by years of production shots, Fringe First awards and the beautiful stain glass windows, I feel a terrible loss is coming to the cultural life of this wonderful city. I have little to do with this theatre. I don’t usually attend amateur dramatics and I don’t have anything positive to contribute about their drama classes. But… the loss of this theatre will really affect the city and that can’t be good. Seems with all the cuts and unemployment, the recession and the crunch, the one thing we actually need is MORE opportunities to celebrate what being human is all about, not less.

I waited in the foyer, saddened by the inevitable coming loss, concerned that the Northern Irish accent, which I am so familiar with, was about to be butchered.

They didn’t. Butcher it. But Strathclyde University may still.