One story. three CHAPTERS. A few Climaxes.
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"sexuality"
ROMP & ROLL 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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"masculinity"
ROLE PLAY The Homo/Erotic (aka The Drama of Desire) When (toxic) masculinity drives men who want each other apart. 
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"society"
DO & DIE 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.
Three of Canada's most unorthodox artists bring the joy of disability culture to life, by decolonizing normalized notions of "impairment" as an individual problem that needs to be fixed.
Closet Freaks instead affirms the "abnormality" of impairment as a valued aspect of the human condition and a vibrant source of aesthetic appreciation; through a symbolic story of disability, masculinity, sexuality & society, which we reveal backwards: From affirmation to normalization, virility to sterility. In one of the most unapologetically peculiar staging of disability as desirability you'll ever get to witness.
Closet Freaks lets gives you a peep into a raucous relationship between two guys who can't quite figure out what is means to "be a man" when you really don't measure up. Their individual struggles to "man up" reveal quite a bit wonderment, if not nearly enough inspiration. Just what impact will trying to be more "normal" have on their relationship?
Closet Freaks: A Physical Theatre of Cruelty . . . with a few twists!
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?
Three of Canada's most unorthodox artists bring the joy of disability culture to life, by decolonizing normalized notions of "impairment" as an individual problem that needs to be fixed.
Closet Freaks instead affirms the "abnormality" of impairment as a valued aspect of the human condition and a vibrant source of aesthetic appreciation; through a symbolic story of disability, masculinity, sexuality & society, which we reveal backwards: From affirmation to normalization, virility to sterility. In one of the most unapologetically peculiar staging of disability as desirability you'll ever get to witness.
Closet Freaks lets gives you a peep into a raucous relationship between two guys who can't quite figure out what is means to "be a man" when you really don't measure up. Their individual struggles to "man up" reveal quite a bit wonderment, if not nearly enough inspiration. Just what impact will trying to be more "normal" have on their relationship?
Closet Freaks: A Physical Theatre of Cruelty . . . with a few twists!
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?
OPENS April 2021.
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transgressive ART.
intersecting CULTURES. non-normative AESTHETICS. |
