September 28th, 2009 maggie
1. We will provoke you, entertain you, make you laugh, cry, and maybe even turn you on.
2. We will use a full arsenal of pointe shoes, hats, wigs, puppets, strap-ons, harness, our sparkling wit to bring this show to you.
3. Alicia Green will dance! Maggie Cee and Johnathan will parody ballet and gender conventions! Karin Webb is a little drunk! Alana and Gingerita make out and take their clothes off, but not at the same time! havalah will tell you about her girlfriends! Mylene straps it on! Dee has glittery puppets! Johnny Blazes channels Mary Martin! Madge of Honor and havalah duke it out! Amy Rain is high Maintenance! SPPSSM scoots to save the world!
4. The Femme Show is Boston born and bred. We couldn’t do it without you and your support of grassroots queer art and radical gender expression.
5. We are some of the hardest working queers in show biz, in Boston and beyond. Cast members have recently been seen with the Body Heat tour, FringeNYC, ImprovBoston, Company One, and Tranny Roadshow, TraniWreck, Yarrr! Pirate Cabaret, Ten Tiny Shows, and others.
6. We do it all by hand, with the help of performers and volunteers, with no staff, no agent, no communications director. We rely on you to buy a ticket and one for a friend, too.
7. We are committed to creating events that reflect our values, including sustainability, all kinds of accessibility, all kinds of diversity, supporting good causes like MTPC and the Network La/Red, and more. We have a wheelchair accessible venue and ASL interpreters on Saturday night.
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September 24th, 2009 maggie
Jamaica Plain Open Studios is this weekend! You can see work from Kate Moss and discover all kinds of artists and eat some free goodies. Look for Ms. Llewllyn out and about with Femme Show fliers!
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September 17th, 2009 maggie
With film, dance, spoken word, burlesque, drag, and performance art from award winning artists, The Femme Show is the country’s only touring show exploring all aspects of femme identity. For this year’s all-new show, we’ve got new artists and your old favorites delving deeper than ever before to explore gender, queerness and sexuality with all the sass, seriousness, and sophistication you’ve come to expect. This is queer art for queer people, with a variety of diverse perspectives on femme identity that are thoughtful, sad, funny, sexy, and fun. The October 3rd performance will be ASL interpreted.
October 2 and 3, 8:00 PM
Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre,
820 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA.
$10 advanced, $12 door.
Tickets and more at www.thefemmeshow.com
Directions to the Cambridge YMCA
MadFemmePride Presents the Femme Show After Party on Friday, October 2.
Fun mixing and mingling games, Great Conversation, Signature cocktails and cash bar, Free snacks, music and dancing.
$2-5 suggested donation to help us cover costs.
The Elks Club, 55 Bishop Allen Drive.
Directions from the Cambridge YMCA Theater: Coming out of the theater, turn right on Mass Ave. Turn left on Prospect, walk one block, then turn right onto Bishop Allen. The Elks Club is a little more than 2 blocks down. Follow signs to the bar.
Come hungry and bring cash…..the bakesale chock full of sweet, savory, and vegan delicacies supports the work of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition.
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September 16th, 2009 maggie
So in between rehearsing our all new material, some of the Femme Show’s overacheivers are performing all over Boston this weekend. Don’t miss these…..
Maggie and Havalah in Ten Tiny Shows this weekend, along with 8 other amazing queer women artists.
Ten Tiny Shows is an evening of ten, short, original multimedia works for the stage (all of which were either written specifically for or adapted for this project), each work ten minutes long and each work written and directed by a queer woman. Our writer-performers range in age from their twenties to their fifties and their experience (reflected in the work they will perform) ranges from: being an out queer woman in rural Kentucky in the 1970s, being a mixed-race young woman helping to clean up New Orleans after Katrina to being unable to make the first move on a date! Saturday, Sept. 19, 8:30 PM at the YMCA Theater 820 Mass. Ave., Central Square Cambridge, MA 02139 $14 advance price for tickets includes all fees. $16 at the door, but we will more than likely sell out.
One of our newest members, Adelaide Windsome with Riot Folk on Friday, September 18th (don’t be fooled by the date on the poster, it’s not Saturday):
And our friends at Big Moves are joined by several new Femme Show performers at their Pirate Cabaret: a revue-style Cabaret filled with pirate themed performances ranging from burlesque to hip hop, from comedy to performance art. Performers include: Big Moves, Babes in Boinkland, UnAmerika’s Sweetheart Karin Webb, 86-Years-Young Mary Dolan, Black Cat Burlesque, Honey Suckle Duvet, Brief Awakening, Madame Psychosis, Lolli Hoops, and special guest Tommy Toxic from Montreal!
Saturday, 19 September 2009, Midnight
The Coolidge Corner Theatre
290 Harvard St.
Brookline, MA
Tickets are available online at http://www.coolidge.org or at the Coolidge Corner Theatre box office.
The Femme Show’s own Johnny Blazes will be presenting hir original one-person evening-length performance entitled wo(n)man show
Thursday September 17 at 8 pm
Friday September 18 at 8 pm
Machine
1254 Boylston St, Boston
Tickets $10 in advance, $12 at the door
Recommended for audience members 16 and older. Folks under 18 must be accompanied by a parent.
Johnny Blazes’ wo(n)man show is an evening-length performance that blends cabaret arts with theater to create a charming semi-narrative series of vignettes. These vignettes are character-driven comedic moments that explore notions of gender and embodiment. Unseen forces seem to possess Blazes in this journey through a world that is constantly pressuring us to choose a gender, a persona, a stance. Utilizing a rich background in theater, clowning, drag, dance, opera and circus arts, Blazes fuses genres and expands notions of gender performativity, all while keeping the audience laughing.
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September 8th, 2009 maggie
This year’s mini tour was off to a great start when we left Somerville almost on schedule in our big old SUV with the fifth box on top. We had a tasty, healthy, culturally appropriative lunch in Nyack, and then there was traffic. All the way to Philadelphia, an hour and a half late. Thank goodness the folks at the Rotunda were chill and helpful.
On this trip:
1. Maggie made peace with the GPS.
2. We had birthday peach pie made by some Amish.
3. We ate yellow watermelon.
4. We learned that Ace of Cakes will not let just anyone in.
5. Maggie finished a pair of socks while trying not to freak out about being late.
Photos and more….. Read the rest of this entry »
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September 2nd, 2009 maggie
August is a busy month here at the Femme Show! We performed at Machine, posed in the park in our rufflebutts, and hit the road for Philadelphia and Baltimore. And in between yours truly and a crop of hardy volunteers have been working tirelessly to bring you our all new show!
What happened in august, part 1… Read the rest of this entry »
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