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The company producing
This Year's Thing
is
- So who are they?
 On
the night of Wednesday 22nd February 2006, a group of fourteen
budding and curiously dramatic individuals met at the LGBT
Centre for Health & Wellbeing in Edinburgh with David Dalzell
(pictured) to hear about plans to form Edinburgh’s first
LGBT drama group. A few weeks and a series of workshops later,
and the group had evolved into The Luvvies!
After gathering momentum during the spring of
2006, plans were quickly afoot to bring to Edinburgh their
inaugural performance of cabaret and vignettes in A Taste of
Heaven & Hell, which touched on the lives of the whole
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. They played to
a packed audience at the Cafe Royal in
Edinburgh, with laughter, tears and not a
little dramatic style.
Torch Song Trilogy
marked their first full stage run of theatre, and they performed
the trilogy at Adam House, Edinburgh 21st - 23rd June 2007, and
again at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival on 11th, 12th and 18th
August 2007 at Edinburgh's Theatre Workshop.
 Painted
Eggs became The Luvvies most ambitious play to date.
Written by Nicole Dolder (pictured) this piece of
original theatre depicting the life of a transsexual woman was
performed 29th - 31st May 2008, at the St Brides Centre,
Edinburgh. Plans are now afoot to turn the play into a film.
Cross dressing was explored
in Bending the Bard from 20th - 22nd November 2008. A
duel production of The Luvvies first film, Roma &
Juliet and stage play Squeaking Cleopatras,
it met with a very positive response from audiences.
The Luvvies intend to take Squeaking Cleopatras to the Edinburgh
Fringe 2009.
And the next Luvvies
project is - This Year's Thing
- which was developed in workshops called the LuvvieBabes.
For
more on the Luvvie Babes Click Here
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