Neptune's Pollywog's: A Sailors Baptism and Other Songs of Transgression
In collaboration with Leone Anne Reeves
2006-2007
1 hour
Neptune's Pollywog's is a Queer Rock Musical written and directed in collaboration with Leone Anne Reeves. Utilizing devices from "musical theater", we contemplated our notions of gender performance/transgression and criticized our own critique of heteronormativity. Drawing from a vast pool of sources, we designed our set/costumes/movements/text from Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble", the field of Cryptozoology, Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle", Abercrombie and Fitch and love stories from our very own sordid pasts. Spectators experienced: a broken narrative, a Werewolf Vagina, a Mr./Mrs. Potato Head Anus, a cast of sea creatures and cowboys, hardcore dancing and a set entirely covered in glitter that cold barely stand on its own.
2006-2007
1 hour
Neptune's Pollywog's is a Queer Rock Musical written and directed in collaboration with Leone Anne Reeves. Utilizing devices from "musical theater", we contemplated our notions of gender performance/transgression and criticized our own critique of heteronormativity. Drawing from a vast pool of sources, we designed our set/costumes/movements/text from Judith Butler's "Gender Trouble", the field of Cryptozoology, Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle", Abercrombie and Fitch and love stories from our very own sordid pasts. Spectators experienced: a broken narrative, a Werewolf Vagina, a Mr./Mrs. Potato Head Anus, a cast of sea creatures and cowboys, hardcore dancing and a set entirely covered in glitter that cold barely stand on its own.
