One story... three CHAPTERS... A few Climaxes!
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ROMP & ROLL
(sexuality) A Wild West Burlesque Show (aka CripTease for me, Baby) When guys who don't measure up stop giving a shit. 
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ROLE PLAY
(masculinity) The Homo/Erotic (aka The Drama of Desire) When (toxic) masculinity drives men who want each other apart. 
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DO & DIE
(society) Some Mis(sed) Perceptions (aka Crippling Conformity) When social norms (mis)shape manhood. 
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WHY TRY TO fit in when you were born to stand out?!
Michele Decottignies, Alan Shain and Troy Emery Twigg lay bare the sexual politics of disability.
In one of the most unapologetically peculiar stagings of disability as desirability you'll ever get to witness, three of Canada's most daring artists bring the joy of disability culture to life.
Unfettered verve stands in stark contrast to the trope of disability as a tragedy to overcome: Closet Freaks affirms the "abnormality" of impairment as a sassy source of sexiness, through a symbolized story of disability, masculinity, sexuality and society that we reveal backwards: From affirmation to normalization, virility to sterility.
Take a peep into a poignant relationship between two very different guys who can't quite figure out what it means to "be a man".
Will not being able to "man up" as individuals take them down as a couple?
Closet Freaks will not inspire you. But it might make you hope... for all of humanity.
Closet Freaks: Purely Physical Theatre
The characters are two guys who really want each other.
Whether or not the appeal actually appeals to them.
Because the setting is society.
With all of its imposing social norms to live up to.
The central conflict?
Will they get snared in the seduction of social stature or find their own (bent) way to each other?
In one of the most unapologetically peculiar stagings of disability as desirability you'll ever get to witness, three of Canada's most daring artists bring the joy of disability culture to life.
Unfettered verve stands in stark contrast to the trope of disability as a tragedy to overcome: Closet Freaks affirms the "abnormality" of impairment as a sassy source of sexiness, through a symbolized story of disability, masculinity, sexuality and society that we reveal backwards: From affirmation to normalization, virility to sterility.
Take a peep into a poignant relationship between two very different guys who can't quite figure out what it means to "be a man".
Will not being able to "man up" as individuals take them down as a couple?
Closet Freaks will not inspire you. But it might make you hope... for all of humanity.
Closet Freaks: Purely Physical Theatre
The characters are two guys who really want each other.
Whether or not the appeal actually appeals to them.
Because the setting is society.
With all of its imposing social norms to live up to.
The central conflict?
Will they get snared in the seduction of social stature or find their own (bent) way to each other?
A theatre of cruelty... with a few twists!
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transgressive ART.
intersecting CULTURES. non-normative AESTHETICS. |
