For the past eight years, Sam and their friends have been celebrating the holidays with their own chosen Christmas dinner. Over time, the group has changed, as have the traditions, adding new ones while outgrowing others. Worried that too much is changing, Sam is determined to make sure the friends don’t outgrow each other. This is a story about Queer friendship, creating new traditions, letting go of others, and growing up.
Juanita Bang Bang, a Latina drag queen, tells and enacts the story of the number 108: the number of males, presumably homosexuals, detained during a murder investigation conducted by the Paraguayan Dictator Alfredo Stroessner in 1959. To this day, this number is used as a way to discredit a person based on their sexual orientation. However, the number has been reclaimed by local LGBTQ+ members from a shameful association to one of pride. "I am 108" focuses on the fusion of extravagance and meaningful narrative.
Content Notice: Mature subject matter, themes of violence and homophobia
A cardinal of the holy church interrogates a prisoner held accused of sodomy in the eyes of the Inquisition. A vulnerable & abstract chamber piece on kink, sex, power, religion, gender & queerness in the 16th century. A work-in-progress reading of a labour of love.
Sappho’s Garden is a solo folk opera that rediscovers the fragmented remains of Sappho’s poetry through a contemporary lens, marrying the classical and folk genres in a new work by the Spare Key Collective. What remains of Sappho's poetry shows us glimpses of her life; however, these mysterious fragments stir more questions than answers. Over two thousand years ago, Sappho wrote the words, “someone will remember us, I say; even in another time.” Sappho's Garden rediscovers her legacy and reimagines what it means to a contemporary audience. In Sappho's Garden, we plant our feet firmly in tradition while reaching through centuries of distortion and into a universe of possibilities.
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