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Derek McLuckie

DEREK MCLUCKIE  

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below is a list of Derek McLuckie's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Elysian Fields: The Life and Curious Death Of Tennessee Williams         Glue Boy Blues         Night Twisted Tales

Elysian Fields: The Life and Curious Death Of Tennessee Williams

Synopsis:
biographical homage to Tennessee Williams and Vivien Leigh

Notes:
part of Glasgay!

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Glue Boy Blues

Synopsis:
A one-man, multi-media theatre piece, incorporating text, projected illustration, Glezga dialect, song, dance, Drama n some comedy an' 'aw. Glue Boy Blues is a rites of passage, visionary journey, recounted in swirling, psychedelic prose by a glue sniffing, ex-evangelical, secret Judy Garland fan, who falls helplessly in love with his two best pals. All three get swallowed by 'this serpent that grows oot a glue can doon the Killmowie swingpark'. Within this hallucinatory world clouds turn into Pegasus, best friends attempt rape and the bible blasts oot a crisp bag. . .

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Glasgay

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Genre:
multi media theatre piece. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Night Twisted Tales

Synopsis:
Derek MeLuckie is an imposing figure - tall and shaven-headed, with an intense gaze and an imposing physical presence. It's testament to his skill as a performer that he can just about make you believe he's Marilyn Monroe. So much has been written and said about that particular idol that it's initially disappointing when she intrudes on the opener of Night Twisted Tales - a surreal, evocative little daydream about a train journey to Saitcoats - but McLuckie's poetic homage fits most of it into a breathy stream of contradictions. Oxymorons pile up as the "high-heeled tightrope walker" hurtles towards death. Cue the arrival of a possibly bisexual, almost certainly delusional, figure, who claims to have the scars to prove her past as a love-driven hired assassin of the Kennedy clan. Far more convincing (and often cheekily explicit) are the contemporary Scottish gay men, whose tales of woe are delivered in comic verse. Lovin' a Casual is one such story - of lust and longing in the Littlewoods toilets - but it's greeted with slightly restrained laughter following, as it does, the chilling Up at Steff's, an exhilarated ned's account of his night of gay-bashing. This is a sharp, harrowing piece of writing that captures the terrifying nonchalance of a brutally violent individual and tackles head-on the poisonous association of gay men with paedophiles. When McLuckie invites the audience to close their eyes to visualise the start of a pedestrian-paced, rather predictable story, it becomes apparent that much of his densely-worded, fast-spoken material would work best on the radio.
Shona Craven, Herald

Notes:
part of Glasgay!

1st Produced:
Glasgow, CCA    2006

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Genre:
Play/Drama. - - Gay, full length

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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