VISUAL ART AUTUMN PREVIEW
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Allan Radcliffe picks some of the highlights of Glasgay! 2010, which this year explores the theme of relationships PANIC PATTERNS Award winning Glasgow- based authors Zoé Strachan and Louise Welsh have collaborated on a gripping theatrical thriller in which two lovers witness sudden changes in bird migration patterns that herald impending disaster. The production is directed by Alison Peebles for the Citizens Theatre. Citizens Theatre, Tue 19–Sat 30 Oct (not 24/25).
THE BRIDGE Wendy Miller and Rachel Amey’s play looks at the burgeoning phenomenon of young people self-harming and committing suicide, and focuses on the family members and social workers of two lost girls. The Arches, Tue 26–Sat 30 Oct.
THE MAIDS Jean Genet’s ‘exquisite, poisoned pearl of a play’ is given a new lease of life by Derek McLuckie and an all-male cast. This new interpretation examines gender and class war through the well-known story of two maids who plot the gruesome murder of their upper class employer. Tron Theatre, Tue 4–Sat 13 Nov. RED DUST ROAD Following last year’s triumph with The Maw Broon Monologues Jackie Kay returns to Glasgay! with a one- night special reading of her acclaimed memoir, which traces the Glaswegian writer’s first meetings with her birth parents. With accompanying music and song from Suzanne Bonnar. Tron Theatre, Wed 10 Nov.
QUEERS AND ANSWERS A new series of talks and debates, which aims to explode some old myths and take on some sacred cows, looking at everything from freedom to faith, sex and the body, school and society. The series is delivered in partnership with partner organisations such as the Equality Network, Stonewall, LGBT Youth Scotland and Glasgow Women’s Library. Various venues and dates. See www.glasgay.co.uk for full details. THE SHONDES Live gig from the up-and- coming lesbian/queer/transgender band from Brooklyn, New York to accompany their critically acclaimed album My Dear One. The band’s music is distinctive for its Jewish influences and radical political messages. The Winchester Club, Sat 6 Nov.
JAMES HUGONIN A major exhibition timed to coincide with Northumberland-based abstract painter Hugonin’s 60th birthday. The exhibition will bring together seven paintings made over the past decade, showcasing the artist’s characteristic subtle style, understated clarity and slow and deliberate colour notation that relates keenly to the place in which the works are created. Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, Fri 1 Oct–Fri 12 Nov. SUBODH GUPTA: TAKE OFF YOUR SHOES AND WASH YOUR HANDS Programmed to mark the Commonwealth Games handover from Delhi to Glasgow, the first solo exhibition in Scotland by one of India’s foremost contemporary artists explores that country’s cultural identity on a global scale, reflecting India’s economic transformation by incorporating everyday objects into impressive large-scale artworks. Tramway, Glasgow, Fri 8 Oct–Sun 12 Dec.
36 FILM Jim Broadbent, Ruth
Sheen and Lesley Manville star in Mike Leigh’s latest comedy/drama Another Year, released Fri 5 Nov. It centres around Broadbent and Sheen’s elderly couple and the relationship between them and their family, and also features Leigh regular Imelda Staunton.
37 FILM Another darling at this
year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival, Monsters is a sci-fi romance, being talked up in some quarters as ‘this year’s District 9’. In it, a cynical journalist must escort a tourist through an alien ‘quarantine zone’ in Mexico to the safety of the American border. From Fri 26 Nov.
38 CLUBS Caspa (pictured, below) and Emalkay of Dub Police are special guests at Glasgow School of Art’s Mixed Bizness on Fri 12 Nov. They’ll be joined by Bizness resident Boom Monk Ben and host Profisee (Cloak x Dagger).
39 FILM The end is nigh
for the world’s favourite boy wizard . . . Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 will be released on Fri 19 Nov, in bewitching 3D. For more info, see our 3D Movies panel on page 21.
40 VISUAL ART The Fruitmarket Gallery
hosts Childish Things – Fantasy and Ferocity in Recent Art from Sat 13 Nov. The exhibition focuses on the themes of childhood, toys and child
development, with specific
reference to British and US artists of the 1980s
and 1990s, and is curated by David Hopkins. See feature, above. 9–23 Sep 2010 THE LIST 29