Clooney and Pitt join star-studded gay play
Los Angeles - Hollywood superstars Brad Pitt and George Clooney are joining a star-studded play about the gay marriage controversy in California, producers announced Thursday.
The play, called 8, was written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Lance Black and focuses on the legal battle to introduce gay marriage in the state.
According to the announcement, Pitt will play a judge in the case who came out as gay after issuing a ruling in favour of gay marriage, while Clooney will play a high-profile lawyer who argued in favour of allowing same-sex unions.
The title refers to Proposition 8, which the state passed in November 2008, outlawing same-sex marriages in California, where they had been allowed since a ruling in June that year.
Other stars set to appear in the Saturday premiere of the play include Martin Sheen (as the plaintiff's lead co-counsel), Christine Lahti and Jamie Lee Curtis (as a lesbian couple), Matthew Morrison and Matt Bomer (as a gay couple), as well as Kevin Bacon, Jane Lynch and John C Reilly.//DPA
