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If you’re interested in trans fantasy, my fifteen-minute play Distaff was just produced as a radio play by the Eclectic Half Hour Radio Hour! It’s a play about two trans kids with a very different ideas of how to survive in a world whose lines cut them sneaking into a holy cave where a goddess - or a king - sleeps. It’s a play about love and despair and threads that people pull to save themselves and others in desperate moments, and it was inspired by prechristian archeological findings of spinning tools, greek mythology, and the phrase ‘distaff counterpart’. I am so honored to have my play produced, and the director and actors did a phenomenal job, so please, if you’re interested, give it a listen!

#trans theater #queer theater #trans fantasy #trans speculative fiction #trans audio drama #queer audio drama #my writing #corvid rambles #I love the sound design… as a fellow sound designer I am Losing My Mind

Thank you BNN!

i miss her (the play i wrote)

BLUE TRAIN

#blue train #θέατρο άλμα #antivirus magazine #athens #queer theater

Based on Bloom Into You and Wandering Son, it seems that school plays in Japan:

Are always written by the students

Reflect the deep interpersonal trauma and longings of those students

Reveal or confirm that basically everybody involved is queer

This is very disappointing, as only one out of the three seemed to be true of theater at my high school

#disclaimer: I wasn't a theater kid #I just did some half-assed tech stuff to be close to the cool queer kids #bloom into you #yagate kimi ni naru #wandering son #horo musuko #theater #theatre #student theater #student theare #anime #queer #lgbt #lgbtq #queer theater #theater kids

this might be a long shot but does anyone out there on the interwebs have a copy of i, joan by charlie josephine? its a play that retells the story of joan of arc as a nonbinary person. for some reason i can’t buy it from the concord theatricals website since i don’t live in the UK and that seems to be the only place its been officially licensed :/ someone pls help me out

#joan of arc #nonbinary #plays #theatre #theater #UK #acting #transmasc #representation #queer theater #queer theatre #UK theatre #the national theatre #charlie josephine #jeanne d’arc #nb #enby #.txt #alex talks

2 trans actors discuss what they’ve found in the role of ‘Twelfth Night’s sad clown, in productions at St. Louis Shakespeare Festival and th

ESTEBAN: Excuse me, I’m sorry, we’re also not queering Shakespeare. Shakespeare came to us queer as fuck. Okay?

ESCO: I’m just going off the text right now, like: oh, Feste is two-spirited. It takes a special human being to be able to move through this type of world. This cannot be someone that holds onto what society says is right. I cannot play Feste if I think that there’s only one way that’s right. That’s Malvolio! Who you are and what you would…

ESTEBAN: …are out of my welkin.

ESCO: I see you. Be you, boo. You are trying to survive. I’m trying to survive. And I see the survivalist in you. Do you, boo. You’re safe with me.

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ESCO: I want to say, growing up as a Black person, there were no Shakespeare books being thrown in front of me. And also with dyslexia, words are horrifying, terrifying. But if you have the right people around you, and the people who can see that you’re capable, and then also go, “Hey, would you like to join?” I’m very thankful for those people for giving me the opportunity, because I now want to pass on to other people that if you have the opportunity, and you feel safe enough, I think it’s a place to try—a place that should be explored. What they don’t know is that it’s for our people. It’s for the artists. It’s really for the artists. Some people have tried to make it so high and mighty and uppity. It’s not. It’s literally for the artists that are still trying to speak in code. Definitely do Shakespeare if you can. Which I would never have thought I would ever say, so it has to go on record.

ESTEBAN: I feel an aversion to Shakespeare in the way it’s practiced in this country, which is to be put as a museum piece up on a pedestal, up on a shelf. Also, even though there are some companies that have the word “American” in their name, whenever they do Shakespeare, they have to (puts on an affected British accent) put on a British lilt, and lift up the language so that it sounds “better.” So we already have this still like conquistador-able idea of what colonialism looks like, and we try and make it like people don’t see what they’re doing with Shakespeare when they’re doing that.