FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 6th
the frank theatre company presents Theatre Outré’s campy, raunchy and hilarious UNSEX’d
“If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, then behold on for dearest life”
Vancouver, BC.,- After sold out performances in Toronto, Halifax, Calgary, Saint John and Dublin, UNSEX’d finally comes to Vancouver! the frank theatre company is thrilled to present this award-winning hit by Lethbridge’s Theatre Outré to West Coast audiences.
Written by Jay Whitehead and Daniel Judes, UNSEX’d returns to a time when men played all the roles in theatre and tells the madcap story of two boy-players fighting it out for the role of Lady Macbeth in Shakespeare’s newest play. Both will do anything to catch the eye, and affections, of the playwright. This cheeky comedy is one part All About Eve, one part Macbeth and all parts E! True Hollywood Story. Completely historically inaccurate, satirically biting and gratuitously crude, UNSEX’d also has a haunting dark side that questions fame, gender, and the truth about beauty.
UNSEX’d is touted as “a riot of colour, action and comedy” (Gordon Farell, EILE Magazine) while also having “an awful lot of brains, with particular insights into gender, queerness and performativity” (Mike Anderson, Mooney on Theatre). This is a show for everyone from Shakespeare buffs to celebrity stalkers to camp and drag enthusiasts, and even that person who likes their humor just a little bit over the line (or a lot over).
In keeping with their long-range plan to collaborate with other queer-mandated companies in Canada, the frank is excited to showcase original work from an up-and-coming, edgy, queer theatre company based in southern Alberta and Canada’s unofficial “Bible Belt.”
EVENT DETAILS:
Dates: December 2nd – 5th
Time: 8pm nightly, with a 2 pm matinee December 5th
Venue: PAL Studio Theatre, 581 Cardero St., Vancouver, BC
Tickets: $20 at thefranktheatre.com
ABOUT the frank: The West Coast’s professional queer theatre company, the frank theatre company’s mission is to explore what it means to be queer, and the place of queer individuals in society, by creating, developing, producing and presenting theatrical work that places queer issues on a global canvas. These are works wherein issues of queer marginalization intersect with other types of marginalization: i.e economic, racial, gender and political. the frank is primarily a text-based theatre that trusts in the ability of the playwright to wrestle with these questions. For more information: thefranktheatre.com
ABOUT THEATRE OUTRÉ: Theatre Outré is a professional theatre company based in Lethbridge, Alberta. Founded in 2012 by Jay Whitehead, Theatre Outré is a leading outlet for alternative theatre in southern Alberta and is dedicated to providing an uncensored and uncompromising voice to those who are often considered to exist beyond the fringes of social propriety, sexual norms and gendered expectatio
