Theatre reviews: Bold Girls at the Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow | Just Start Here at 26 Civic Street, Glasgow

Helicopters circle above, conjured up by swirling spotlights over a darkened Citizens’ auditorium; and then we are down to earth in Marie’s kitchen, where something like normal life goes on, despite occasional sounds of explosions and gunfire from the streets outside. This is West Belfast in the late 1980s, the scene of Rona Munro’s acclaimed 1990 play Bold Girls; and 20 years into the Troubles, with a decade still to go, Munro’s three central characters – middle-aged Nora, her good-time-girl daughter Cassie, and young widowed mother Marie, who lives across the road – have not only learned to live with armoured vehicles full of British soldiers on the streets, but have come to find some aspects of the situation hilariously funny.