One of the leading theatres in Britain, the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre Company was formed in 1943 by a group of Glasgow citizens including the playwright James Bridie (1888-1951), who became the first president, Dr Tom Honeyman, who became the first chairman and the writer Guy McCrone (1898-1977), who was the first managing director. The Theatre became a private limited company in 1943 . They first presented their repertoire in the Athenaeum Theatre but moved to the Royal Princess's Theatre in the Gorbals which was later renamed the Citizens' Theatre . In its early years it did try to promote Scottish plays, many of them being by Bridie. From 1969 under the guiding hand of the triumvirate of Giles Havergal (b. 1938), Robert David MacDonald (b. 1929) and Philip Prowse (b. 1937), the company have presented an international repertoire and have won world-wide acclaim for their work. During this period the name'Glasgow' was dropped from the title of the company. In 1986 the Board of the Citizens' designated the Scottish Theatre Archive as the official depository for the archive of the Citizens' Theatre.
See M Coveney, The Citz: 21 Years of the Glasgow Citizens Theatre(London, 1990)
From the guide to the Records of Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, Scotland, 1943-1991, (Glasgow University Library, Special Collections Department)
