UPCOMING ??
Part of the Trans History Project, in residence with Rattlestick Theater and commissioned by Baltimore Center Stage and Breaking the Binary Theater.
It is 1925 and it is 2025 and also neither.
It was Les Biches in Paris and it is LES BI(T)CHES here in Brooklyn and we’re not even on the Lower East Side. And even if we were, it isn’t the ‘Lower East Side’ anymore than Paris is still Paris, or, at least not what it was in 1924 when the ballet Les Biches premiered there, and the LES may as well be gone too if we’re thinking about what it was in the 60s or 70s, but of course it can’t be what it was then (nothing can?).
It is the thing that it is now because it is; everything is change. But there are constants. Over one hundred years ago, there were trans people — and queers and dykes, fags and their friends. Just like today and here. And there were fascists who wielded their power over them, blamed them for war and death, and demanded their nonexistence.
And in turn, like today, there was fierce resistance and there was cowardice. There was Claude Cahun and Romaine Brooks and all their friends, and we’re bringing them back to life.
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