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. Read more …
Within this hallucinatory world clouds turn into Pegasus, best friends attempt rape and the bible blasts oot a crisp bag. Eftir Jesus ‘n’ the glue, thurz only Judy, Billie, Bessie ‘n’ the Glue Boy Blues.
A one-man, multi-media theatre piece, incorporating text, projected illustration, Glezga dialect, song dance, drama ‘n’ some comedy anaw.
The fact that McLuckie is up there on his own speaks volumes about a full-blooded poetic monologue which recalls the sort of spiky confessionals patented by poet Claire Dowie, and in truth Glue Boy Blues belongs more in the speak-easy environs of the spoken-word scene than more formal spaces.
There’s some powerful material here, though; and Pauline Goldsmith’s production sets it on the path to a vividly theatrical form of expression, in what looks like a work in progress with some distance still to travel.
Tron Theatre, Glasgow from Tuesday November 8, 2011, until Saturday November 12, 2011. More info: www.tron.co.uk
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