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Just Like a Woman: Gender Spectacle
Experimental Theater
Friday, October 23, 2015 at 10:00PM

Abrons Arts Center, Experimental Theater
466 Grand Street
New York, NY 10002
F/M or J/Z to Delancey/Essex; B/D to Grand St; M14A bus to Pitt Street


A mixed bill of gender queer turns by UK and US artists in the Just Like A Woman programme, MC’d by Split Britches’ Lois Weaver and Peggy Shaw. Featuring short performances by Lucy Hutson, Dickie Beau and the first US performance of Nando Messias’ stunning Walking Failure. Messias engages with representations of effeminate men and the queer body. He explores its visibility, invisibility and hyper-visibility and connects this with the way his ‘sissy’ body has been derided, ridiculed, punished, but also celebrated. Walking Failure looks at his inability and unwillingness to ‘walk like a man’ and the potentially devastating consequences of walking with a swish.