![]() In Circle Jerk, politics (made in the bedroom) and pleasure (found on a screen) empower a group of the oppressed to become the oppressors of others. But what can it offer us when the world has lost the plot? And what can it tell us when we find ourselves stuck in perpetual loops, from “Don’t Ask” to “Don’t Say”? ![]() It confronts our aversions and attractions, putting the Ridiculous and the humiliated on the pedestal where “straight plays” enshrined perfection, Realism, and truth. Circle Jerk springs from these culturally contagious screened and staged stories, and takes on their historical ability to make us laugh our way into tragedy.Īcross its own histories, queer theater has played with identity, staging the joys of artificiality and the crises of attempted authenticity. But those stories, from the ones on I Love Lucy to the ones on the local news to the ones on Instagram Live, reach out and touch people and politics beyond the screen. So where do we go for a little comfort, a little beauty, a little harmless illusion? To our bedrooms, to our screens, to watch our stories. We’re interconnected by our millions of daily digital (mis)information exchanges but still report feeling (self-)isolated. We live in a world of deep fakes, fake news, viral memes, and mainstream drag. This from Fake Friends (Michael Breslin, Patrick Foley, Catherine María Rodríguez, Ariel Sibert, and Rory Pelsue): LUCY MOSS & TOBY MARLOW, writers of the internationally acclaimed musical Six, will host a special, late-night performance of Circle Jerk on June 11 at 10:30pm, in honor of Pride month. Livestream tickets for all performances are available on a sliding scale from $5.99-$49.99. In-person Pride Performance tickets start at $19. Or both! Our Fake Friends will host special, late-night wild and unhinged performances through June 25, 2022. Join in the flesh at The Connelly Theater Off-Broadway (220 E 4th St), or get off digitally at home. See how the sausage gets made in this new hybrid in-person and live-streamed production. Cancellations, meme schemes, and political and erotically flip flops abound as three actors playing nine parts play out this chaotic live-streamed descent into the high-energy, quick-change, low-brow shitpit of the internet. This off-season, two White Gay internet trolls hatch a plot to take back what’s wrongfully theirs. In Circle Jerk, it’s winter on Gaymen Island, a summer retreat for the homosexual rich and fame-ish. Now, their Circle Jerk is back––and this time, you can get in on the action in person for a strictly-limited run beginning this Thursday Jfor #Pride month. This tribe is a lot to take in, but take it in you must. IT’S A LOT TO TAKE IN, BUT TAKE IT IN YOU MUSTįake Friends, which co-created the zany streaming event This American Wife (review), are very very bright and insightful, au courant about the internet-age zeitgeist, and as queer as a clockwork orange.
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