TRIGGER WARNING! We perform directly, openly, and transparently about “the drug that if you quit, everyone thinks you have a problem”. TRIGGER WARNING!
John drinks. John likes to drink. More than some, certainly less than others, but they have a feeling that things may have gotten out of hand, or at least that’s what other people have told them, and John is having second thoughts. The fall lasts, and John splits hairs for as long as they can, 75 minutes, to figure out if they can get on with their plan. Or do they have a problem? John hits a wall. A flood. A ceiling. John thinks. John is an alcoholic. What does John do?
dramaqueer 2 – Unconditionally (Summer 2022) is an Active Art documentary theater project for transgender and non-binary people, that aims to investigate the working and economical discriminations, their manifestations, and their links and connections with other forms of discrimination spread in the society. Therefore, the involved playwrights have interviewed people that experience already in their daily life also other forms of discrimination such us misogyny, transphobia, queerphobia or racism.
Though, is another imaginary possible?
What would happen, if nobody would experience economic uncertainty?
Would such dynamics and forms of discrimination be shaped differently?
dramaqueer Summer 2021 Edition was an Active Art playwriting and writing for stage workshop dedicated to transgender and non-binary members of the LGBTQAI+ community. The core theme of the workshop was the discrimination within our community towards trans and non-binary people, using observation and self-observation, auto-representation, reflection, and auto-fiction.
Each participant developed in the workshop a 10 minutes play. All 5 plays written have been presented in a professional public reading performance hosted by TrashEra Studio @ Wilde Renate, followed by a talkback with the audience.
Workshop facilitator and project coordinator – Bogdan Georgescu, playwright and theatre director.
The performance Antigen/Tremors/The Perfect Hour was part of the queer theater festival PEARLS, PARADOXES AND ECSTASY organized within the Triumf Amiria. Muzeul Culturii Queer [?] project. TRIUMF AMIRIA. Muzeul Culturii Queer [?] is a project which aims to reclaim the queer cultural production of the past 20 years, focused on three directions: literature, visual arts and performative arts, started by Asociația MozaiQ in partnership with Muzeul Național al Literaturii Române, Muzeul Național de Artă Contemporană, Centrul de Teatru Educațional Replika and artist Kjersti Vetterstad (Norway). The project offers all throughout 2021, a series of events meant to underline the importance of queer culture in decades past, but also to encourage new cultural productions through exhibits, workshops, guided tours, theater shows and performances, public readings, and networking events.
