There have been many golden periods in the British postwar regional theatre – at Bristol, Nottingham, Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham – but few so idiosyncratic, audacious and European as at the Glasgow Citizens theatre under the artistic directorship of Giles Havergal, who has died aged 87.
Havergal, with his co-directors, the designer Philip Prowse and the playwright and translator Robert David MacDonald, ran the beautiful jewel of a Victorian theatre on the south side of the Clyde in the Gorbals from 1969 to 2003, the longest tenure in post of any British director.
