Playwright Frances Poet, composer and musician Ricky Ross have worked together on a new play, Small Acts of Love, commissioned by the Citizen’s artistic director Dominic Hill (Image: Colin Mearns/The Herald) It remains the deadliest terror attack to have taken place on British soil, when 270 people lost their lives in the bomb blast which downed PANAM Flight 103 over Lockerbie. Now the relationships formed in the aftermath and decades-long recovery from the atrocity are to become the basis of a new musical play marking the re-opening of Glasgow’s Citizens Theatre. Small Acts of Love, written by playwright Frances Poet, will feature original music and songs by Deacon Blue’s Ricky Ross. The production will bring the curtain up on a new era for the 146 year old theatre’s revival when it reopens next September following a six-year £40 million refurbishment. The play is the result of a four year project between Ross and Poet, who first conceived the idea weeks before the start of the Covid pandemic, and has its roots in the Borders community’s response to the deadly attack on 21 December 1988. Poet said: “The passengers’ belongings were treated with incredible care by the people of Lockerbie so rather than the situation where they would be incinerated after any evidence had been claimed, the women of Lockerbie volunteered to work in an industrial laundry, washing and ironing clothes, dealing with things like diaries and bibles. “When the coffins left Lockerbie, people lined the streets and blue and white flowers were laid on top of the coffins. All these small acts of love were received with such gratitude by the Americans I had spoken to.”

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