This year’s Glasgay! programme announced - PinkPaper.com

This year’s Glasgay! programme announced - PinkPaper.com

Andrew Gonsalves and Helen Stuart
news.PinkPaper.comTuesday, 31 August 2010

Glasgay! Scotland’s foremost annual celebration of queer culture starts in October. The festival features a broad spectrum of artistic offerings, including two principal commissions, Panic Patterns and The Bridge, examining social breakdown and self harm respectively.

The stage programme also includes the Rocky Horror Show and Glee tribute Don’t Stop Believin’ as well as performances dealing with more serious subject matter including mental illness and murder.


Don't miss Jean Genet’s THE MAIDS (pictured), in which an all-male cast examine class war in a red channel gown, inspired by a brutal murder case involving two sisters that shocked 1930s France.


There are also a number of films and documentaries that take a look at gender variants, lonesome singles and young noblemen. They will also be screening of the Sigourney Weaver film Prayers for Bobby, which deals with the suicide of a mother's gay teenage son and her battle with faith and dogma.

Theatre fans can also look forward to James Ley’s show UP, a sharp look at the reality of life in psychiatric care with a healthy dose of gallows humour and hit show BETTE/CAVETT, which recreates the meeting between Bette Davis and talk show host Dick Cavett in 1971.



The organisers of the festival have also announced a series of talks and debates entitled Queers & Answers, tackling a number of topics. The Q&A series is to be delivered with a number of different partners, including Unison and LGBT Youth Scotland.



The festival has announced a Clubs Programme, featuring homegrown talent as well as The Shondes, a NYC band playing an exclusive one-off gig featuring tracks from their album “My Dear One.”



Glasgay runs from 14 October – 13 November.