Performance Club 1
Queer/Play edited by Moynan King
Performed by Moe Angelos
Dates/Times:
December 14, 7–9pm
December 15, 7–9pm
Location:
The Commons @ 401 Richmond
401 Richmond Street West, suite 440, Toronto
INFO & DETAILS
Admission: PWYC (at the door only)
This is your book club. You are the audience. You decide how many sessions you attend.
It is not a requirement that you have already read the book being clubbed to attend this Performance: Club. But you are more than welcome to! There will be a limited number of discounted books for sale at the door or you can purchase your copy in advance through the Playwrights Canada Press website.
Facebook event: www.facebook.com/events/129726907716156/
ABOUT Queer Play
A collection of never before published scripts and interviews from both emerging and established Canadian queer theatre and performance artists, Queer/Play maps a cross section of current performance works found at the intersection of queer life and art, delving into the resulting subcultures and always-changing concepts of identity and performance. In this book, queer is not just something someone is; it’s also something these artists do.
Queer/Play Performance Club is presented in 2 sessions, and will be performed by Moe Angelos. Angelos interprets and takes inspiration from the material content of Queer/Play to create a new performance work of their own, playing with the idea of book club.
PLUS!
Each event in the Queer/Play Performance: Club will feature a verbatim reading of some of the interviews contained in Queer/Play, performed by a roster of Toronto-based artists, writers, and performers including: Shannon Cochrane, Amanda Cordner, Sky Gilbert, Darren Gobert, Johanna Householder, Aisha Sasha John, Louise Liliefeldt, Pamila Matharu, Tanya Mars, Susan Wolf and Michaela Washburn.
WORKS INCLUDED in Queer/Play:
Graceful Rebellions by Shaista Latif
Lapine-Moi / Rabbit-I & Cerveau Fêlé 101 / Broken Brain 101 by Nathalie Claude
Dirty Plötz by Alex Tigchelaar
Chronicles of a War Child by Jazz Kamal “Nari”
She Mami Wata & The Pussy WitchHunt by d’bi.young anitafrika
The Magic Hour by Jess Dobkin
Trapped! by Hope Thompson
Sister Mary’s a Dyke?! by Flerida Peña
Hiding Words (for you) by Gein Wong
SPIN by Evalyn Parry
"Comedians Talking about (Gay) Comedy," a round-table discussion with Elvira Kurt, Sabrina Jalees, Dawn Whitwell, and Carolyn Taylor with Moynan King
INTERVIEWS BY:
Alisha Stranges, Erin Hurley, Laine Zisman Newman, Donna-Michelle St Bernard, Mel Hague, Keith Cole, Laura Levin, Tabia Lau, Kim Crosby, Margo Charlton
ABOUT PERFORMANCE CLUB
FADO's newest performance series, Performance Club, attempts to redefine the historical and contemporary performance art canon, one book club, and one book / article / essay / anthology at a time. Invited artists perform the role of book club facilitators, leading the audience through a performance of a reading, a reading performance, a performance about a book, or a bookish performance. The inaugural Performance: Club takes on the newest tome in our collective performance canon: Queer/Play edited by Moynan King (published in November by Playwrights Canada Press).
Performance Club: 2017–2018
Performance Club 1
Queer/Play edited by Moynan King
Performed by Moe Angelos
December 2017
Performance Club 2
Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Suann
Performed by Keith Cole
January 2018