The Southside Group – Current Projects
The Southside Group’s Christmas Carol
The Occasion’s adult learning-disability theatre company, The Southside Group, are proud to present the story of Scrooge – ‘a squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner’ – and his eventual redemption.
Charles Dickens first published his Christmas classic in 1843 and, in the intervening 182 years to the present day, its appeal has never waned. Extracts from ‘A Christmas Carol’ previously featured in ‘The Southside Group’s Christmas Tales’ in 2023. Now, by public demand, it returns in a full re-telling of this iconic work!
Thursday 27th and Friday 28th November at 7pm
Queen’s Park Govanhill Parish Church
Glasgow, G42 8QZ
Tickets: £9 (£6 concessions)
Once more it was the performers who shone, and they got a riotous applause at the end of this more extensive section
The Occasion gratefully acknowledges funding from: PF Charitable Trust administered by Foundation Scotland; Glasgow Community Area Partnership – Southside Central; The Commonweal Fund.
The Splitting of Latham
The Southside Group are proud to present the full-length production of The Splitting of Latham. Over the past year the company have worked with the Glasgow-based playwright, Michael Duke, to develop this exciting new work.
Located in late 1930’s Glasgow, at the time of the British Commonwealth Exhibition in Bellahouston Park, the production will further develop the comedic melodrama for which TSG has become known.
As an experiment in personal betterment goes disastrously wrong, a scientist’s individual traits (anger, jealousy, amazement, frivolity and others) are separated from their host and embodied as their own unique selves.
Following short work-in-progress performances in 2024/2025, the extraordinary complete story will explode onto the stage in March 2026.
Stay tuned for exact dates and venue details!
Amazing, entertaining, confident performances. Particularly liked the music – really added to the performance. Loved the energy of the cast. Great opening scene. Look forward to seeing how you develop this.
Five Years of The Southside Group
Featuring all of The Southside Group’s ‘world of joyful ensemble work’ (The Scotsman) stuffed full of ‘objectively good theatre’ (The Quintessential Review) and bursting with ‘all the trickery and the beauty of performing’ (The Fringe Review) this short film, packed with interviews and performance footage, describes a remarkable journey.
Formed in January 2020 to present new and exciting opportunities for learning disabled adults to become actively involved in theatre, The Southside Group has grown into a ground-breaking company of 17 individuals.
Ranging in age from late teens to sixty, all have some degree of learning disability. Some are experienced performers; others are relative beginners. All contribute enormously, in their own ways, to the work of the company.
Together, they are The Southside Group.
Please watch, enjoy and feel free to share, far and wide, their phenomenal journey over the past five years.
Five Years of The Southside Group:
Filming, sound, and music by Richard Williams
Edited by Peter Clerke, Catherine Gillard and Richard Williams
Directed by Peter Clerke and Catherine Gillard
