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| | | | | Fiona Hutchison: Letâs work togetether to offer tourists the best of Scotland | | One dreich day years ago I was confronted by Duane Hansonâs Tourism sculpture in Glasgowâs Gallery of Modern Art. Hanson was interested in the banality of consumer society. He cast models of figures in ordinary mundane situations, in this case a couple with sunglasses and cameras gazing upwards at some unidentified spectacle with glaikit expressions. | |
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| | | | Rosyth to Zeebrugge ferry service axed | The freight ferry service from the port of Rosyth to Zeebrugge in Belgium has been closed after its operators said they had âlost all hopeâ of being able turn around the lossmaking route. |
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| | | | And finally... | | | Theatre review: Long Dayâs Journey Into Night, Citizensâ Theatre, Glasgow | Thereâs no doubt that Eugene OâNeillâs great 1942 masterpiece is a family drama, par excellence. The entire action is set in the summer of 1912 in the living room of the Tyrone familyâs shabby seaside cottage in Connecticut. The characters are the famous if ageing actor James, his wife Mary, their two sons Jamie and Edmund, and the maid of all work, Cathleen; and the playâs subject, explored relentlessly over more than three hours, is the fraught and increasingly impossible state of relations among the Tyrones. |
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