Theatre, Previews, Issue 668
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Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh collaborate on Panic Patterns at Glasgay! 2010
8 Oct 2010
First collaboration from writing pair
Award-winning writers Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh live together and are in a long-term relationship, but until recently they’d never collaborated. Glasgay! director Steven Thomson asked if they’d be prepared to change that by co-penning a play for…
Derek McLuckie and Pauline Goldsmith bring Jean Genet’s The Maids to stage
8 Oct 2010
All-male version of controversial play set for Glasgay!
‘It’s about play acting and status games,’ says Derek McLuckie of Jean Genet’s The Maids, an all-male version of which the Glaswegian actor will star in and co-direct at this year’s Glasgay! ‘It’s about how you’re never one person, you’re lots of…
Wendy Miller and Rachel Amey collaborate on The Bridge at Glasgay! 2010
8 Oct 2010
New play explores theme of teenage suicide
The creative partnership behind one of the chief commissions at this year’s Glasgay! 2010 is one that the festival was itself instrumental in fostering. Wendy Miller met Rachel Amey last year, after Amey was cast in Miller’s Glasgay! 2009 drama Even…
Jeremy Raison's production of A Clockwork Orange
29 Sep 2010
Swansong show from Citizens Theatre director
Jeremy Raison says one of his favourite films is Brazil. Terry Gilliam’s masterpiece is part of a sub-genre known as ‘retro-futurism’, as if someone in the 1940s had predicted what the 1980s would be like. For Raison, who is directing A Clockwork…
Sea and Land and Sky
29 Sep 2010
New play from Abigail Docherty at Tron Theatre
Almost exactly a year ago Abigail Docherty picked up a flyer in the foyer of the Tron Theatre. Already a playwright with showings of her work at Mayfesto, New Works New Worlds and Imaginate festivals in the pipeline, Docherty was attracted to the…
Return2you dance theatre piece from Susanna Curtis
29 Sep 2010
For 22 years, choreographer Susanna Curtis has been journeying between the place of her birth and the land where she carved out a home and career. Born in Glasgow but based in Nuremberg, Curtis has drawn inspiration from those trips for her latest work…
