This #queertrilogy at the Drayton Arms Theatre brings together three radically different shows by recent Mountview grads Jack Donald, Katie Paterson and Alexandra Christle, Â exploring questions of identity and belonging, and the complications of being yourself.
Jack Donald’s ‘A Sticky Season’ was inspired by the lives of Joe Orton, a British Playwright living at the heart 60’s Britain, changing its attitudes towards homosexuality and Gaetan Dugas a Canadian flight attendant scapegoated for spreading AIDS within the vibrant party scene sprawling across America in the 70’s.Through a queer language of live Jazz music and poetry influenced by ‘The Beat Generation’, this performance consumes and digests the stickiness of these histories from a contemporary queer perspective.
Katie Paterson’s Minor Disruptions piles comedy and autobiography awkwardly on top of each other to excavate the queerness of a ‘normal’ childhood. Every show is a completely different experience, with a party atmosphere of riotous silliness and some very good natured audience participation. At the heart of the show is a question – why does everyone keep saying that childhood was a simpler time, full of innocence and happiness? Katie suggests it was just as much a time of chaos, boredom, frustration and impossible rules that nobody explained.
In Crystal Bollix presents: The Bitch Ball, drag artist Crystal Bollix (the creation of Alexandra Christle, from a genuine school nickname) is trying to discover their ‘Bitch Realness’ in a wildly entertaining fusion of lip-sync, dance, and a LOT of audience interaction. If you’ve ever been called a bitch or simply want to have a muthaf***ing good time, you’re welcome at the Bitch Ball.
The triple bill runs at The Drayton Arms Theatre 19th – 23rd March 2019.
