New Lockerbie play to reopen iconic Glasgow theatre

The show will be performed by a cast of 14 actor-singers and a five piece band.

The bombing, which took place a few days before Christmas, claimed the lives of all 259 people on board Pan Am flight 103 and 11 Lockebie residents who died when wreckage crashed into a residential street.

The Glasgow-based playwright spent time researching researched the community response to the aftermath of the disaster

Poet spoke to 13 families of the victims and 30 individuals, all of whom were happy for their stories to be included in the final show.

She said “the world lost some amazing people” in the tragedy, adding she wanted the focus to be on them rather than the disaster itself.

“A nineteen- year-old whose diary includes a list of tips for life that just show such insight. A family man whose wife and he were born in the same hospital and from the moment they got together they barely spent any time apart,” she said.

“We wanted to honour them and to do that I wanted to be able to name them.

“Often with things that are so traumatic, it can take a few years for people to feel able to talk about it.”

She added: “This is about hope and not about hate. That people can come together in grief rather than be driven apart.”