Cruisical: A Lesbian Musical Anna Lublina, Lilly Kaplan, Elena Rose Light

About This Show

Cruisical: A Lesbian Musical is an anachronistic musical comedy where six queer cis women—Mercedes de Acosta, Moms Mabley, Vita Sackville-West, Violet Trefusis, Virginia Woolf, and Esther Eng—find themselves transported to the year 2018, where they have landed on an all-inclusive lesbian cruise, with a buffet spread at their disposal. Hearts become entangled over piña coladas by the pool, as these women deal with petty interpersonal disputes and larger misunderstandings of 21st-century queerness. We pay earnest homage to our foremothers, who lived and loved out loud at great personal risk. In Cruisical, we give them the tropical lesbian vacation they deserved.

about the artists

Anna Lublina (director) is a theater artist and educator. She embraces ideals of collectivity and community action that she first encountered in her research into the Soviet conceptualists. Her work has been presented at Dixon Place, The Brick, The Tank, The Pit, Vital Joint, Bread and Puppet Theater, and at the Communal Spaces Festival. She has worked with the Ping + Chong Theatre Company, Meredith Monk and The House Foundation, The Wooster Group, the Motor Company, Built for Collapse, Bread and Puppet, and Errantes in Bogota, Colombia.

Elena Rose Light (choreographer & historical researcher) is a queer feminist c h o r e o g r a p h e r based in Brooklyn. She explores expanded notions of choreographer in her work. Elena has presented her work at Gibney Dance: Agnes Varis Performing Arts Center, Center for Performance Research, The Current Sessions, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Movement Research at Judson Church, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among other venues. She has been an artist in residence at Chez Bushwick, The School of Making Thinking and Earthdance. She was a danceWEB scholar at ImPulsTanz, a Dance Institute for Leadership Training mentee, a LANDING mentee with Miguel Gutierrez, and a fellow at the NYU Hemispheric Institute through EMERGENYC. Elena has also performed in the work of Bouchra Ouizguen, Tino Sehgal, Asad Raza, Bruno Isakovic, and Maya Ciarrocchi and Kris Grey. She has acted as an agent for The Bureau for the Future of Choreography. She received a BA with honors in French and art history from Yale University.

Lilly Kaplan (vocalist/composer) is a recent-ish NY transplant, making coffee by day and aspiring toward DIY pop stardom by night. She has presented music in new works at Dixon Place (NYC), the Tank (NYC), The Brick (Brooklyn), and Vital Joint (Brooklyn).

Tuesday, July 24, 2018 at 9:30pm

General Admission

$15 in advance

$18 at the door

Stu./Sen./idNYC

$12 in advance

$15 at the door

Estimated Runtime
60 minutes

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