Drag king cabaret by candlelight. In this blog we meet the drag kings who will be performing in
Drag king cabaret by candlelight. In this blog we meet the drag kings who will be performing in Moll and the Future Kings, a candlelit hour of work-in-progress, late-night drag king cabaret and improv. This blog contains colourful language and swearing.I prithee, pretty youth, let me be better acquainted withThee.As You Like ItIn response to Marlowe’s Edward II, which features an early modern portrayal of a homosexual relationship, we present Voices in the Dark: Pride, Then and Now, a festival that explores the themes of gender and sexuality in thrilling new ways.Getting the party started on 30 March, the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse will host Moll and the Future Kings, a candlelit hour of work-in-progress, late-night drag king cabaret and improv.The Globe stages have seen many women perform male characters, and vice versa. Shakespeare’s audience too would have been familiar with men performing female characters. More recently, in 2018 the Globe stage was graced with people of all genders, performing characters of any gender they chose in Alternative Miss World. Moll Frith, also known as Mal Cutpurse, was a 17th-century cross-dressing performer, criminal and trickster. In 1611, during a production of The Roaring Girl, a piece written about her life by Middleton and Dekker, she appeared on stage in an improvised moment of rude jokes, songs and smoking.Sarah Grange has been waiting 15 years to have a conversation with Moll Frith and Moll and the Future Kings is the start of it. For her, it is ‘an attempt to get back to meeting her [Moll Frith] on her own terms’. Moll’s spirit is being gloriously channelled through an amazing line-up of drag kings including Sigi Moonlight, Mal Content, Wesley Dykes and Bae Sharam.Our relationship with clothing and gender in the street and on the stage may be evolving and becoming less defined, but in the 17th century, people had a very literal relationship with clothes.‘I think when you look back at that early modern period, they had this completely different idea of gender…Their clothing [was] so gendered that they’re almost wearing their genitals on the outside. So if you put on the other gender’s clothing, it’s almost like having a sex change - they took it really seriously.’Sarah GrangeAll hail the kingsWithout further ado, let’s meet the kings of the stage, as described in their own words. Sigi MoonlightSigi Moonlight : Dan Govan In the year that a profoundly orange-faced, pussy-grabbing sociopath was elected leader of the free world, Sigi Moonlight came to Earth.With his suave, satirical characters inspired by a dangerous mix of cinema and politics, Sigi presents humanity with a message of hope and defiance in (most likely) the last five years of its existence.Mal ContentMal Content Blioux Kirkby Crawling from the inky-dark Jacobean depths, fuelled by bile, bombast and brandy laced with regret, Mal Content rises to wreak randomised revenge on a cruel and unfeeling world. You have been warned…Wesley DykesWesley Dykes Lea L’Attentive Wesley Dykes was born on Halloween 2012, after noticing a considerable lack of Colour, Soul and Funk in many of the Drag King scenes across the world. Usually Wesley is your favourite rapper, your favourite RnB singer and your friendly neighbourhood fxckboi. Tonight he’s your favourite storyteller, using spoken word, poetry and improv to weave multiple histories into this historical space.Bae SharamBae has been performing in the London Cabaret scene after graduating with a bang from the Michael Twaits’ Art of Drag course last year. Nominated for Best New Cabaret Act 2018 AND 2019 by Boyz Magazine and a MxGenderFvcker finalist, they are a queer muslim performance artist specialising in alt-drag.Strap yourself in for rocky as fuck ride straight down to “Um, I don’t know if I can laugh at that?”. The answer is no, you can’t. But you probably will. And yes, that does make you a bad person.You can listen to curator Sarah Grange and drag king Wesley Dykes chatting about Moll and the Future Kings on our podcast in Season 2, episode 2, Pride, Then and Now (transcript available). Illustration by Ellan ParryAs You Like It photography by John Tramper -- source link
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