- Slippage Ensemble in
"Queer Theory!"
A Musical Travesty -
TWO PERFORMANCES!
Friday-Saturday, November 3 & 4, 2006 at 8 pm - $23 Adults / $19 Students
A Flynn Center Co-Commission Uproarious Premiere!
“This play explores marginalized spaces that I’ve always been drawn to, or by default, placed into.”
(Thomas DeFrantz)
Boston Review from 10/4/06: In Newsweekly: Thomas DeFrantz's Entertains Queer Theories
"What is 'queer theory' and how does it relate to ME?"
That's the question playwright Thomas DeFrantz and his theater group, Slippage Ensemble, will ask in two performances of DeFrantz's newest work, the Flynn Center co-commissioned Queer Theory!, with Vermont premiere performances for two nights only in FlynnSpace.
In collaboration with The Theater Offensive, the acclaimed Boston-based gay theater company, DeFrantz and Slippage Ensemble have created an uproariously funny and wickedly satiric “musical travesty” that wittily skewers the distance between the highest ivory towers of academia and the dive-iest drag bar downtown. Playwright/actor DeFrantz, a professor of music and theater arts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is joined in Slippage Ensemble by veteran actors and collaborators Margaret Ann Brady, Thomas Bardwell, Amatul Hannan, and Albert Chan. Queer Theory! explores the gaps between gay, lesbian, trans, bi, S&M-ers, and the same-gender-loving and asks, "Can’t we all just get along?"
For more information about these FlynnArts residency activities or to register call 802-652-4548, ext. 4. Additional community events related to the performance of Queer Theory!
will be offered in conjunction with DeFrantz’s week-long Burlington residency,
including activities at area colleges, Outright Vermont, and R.U.1.2?
Community Center. Contact Christopher Kaufman at 802-652-4539 for more information.
Physical Theater Workshop for Grade 9-Adult: Monday, October 30 from 7-9:30 pm and
Saturday, November 4 from 1-3:30 pm
Halloween Improv Comedy Workshop for Grade 9-Adult:
Tuesday, October 31
from 7-9 pm—CANCELLED
FREE Queer Arts Lecture Discussion:
Wednesday, October 31 at 7 pm; FREE (more information at: 802-860-7812 or www.ru12.org); R.U.1.2? Community Center
FREE Post-Performance Question-and-Answer Session with Thomas DeFrantz and Slippage Ensemble:
Friday, November 3 in FlynnSpace, following the premiere performance of Queer Theory!; Free to ticket holders
FREE: "Queer Theory!" Pre-Performance Lecture:
Saturday, November 4 at 6:30 pm; Free; Amy E. Tarrant Gallery at the Flynn Center
Thomas DeFrantz, writer and director of Queer Theory!, discusses how he transformed the tensions among queer identities—drawn
along the axes of race, class, gender, sexuality, age, and ability—into
the stuff of comedy.
- Sponsor
- Media Support
The presentations of Queer Theory! is made possible in part through the National Performance Network (NPN), of which the Flynn is a member. Major contributors include the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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