WORLD PREMIERE Speed Queen Written & Performed by Phoebe Legere
About This Show
Hollywood glamour meets queer performance art in this tour-de-force portrayal of Gay Pride pioneer ‘Joe’ Carstairs, the 1926 World Speedboat record holder. Legere plays cross-dresser Joe Carstairs and seven of her girlfriends including: Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Billie Holiday and Mabel Mercer. Speed Queen, a trans-disciplinary play, uses wearable sculpture, dance, theater and nude lesbian films to tell a story of heartbreak, heroism, and love.
This Dixon Place production is made possible, in part, with public funds from NY State Council on the Arts w/the support of Gov Andrew Cuomo & the NY State Legislature.
March 7 (preview), 9, 15, 16, 17, 23 & 24, 2018 at 7:30pm
$15 for March 7 preview
General Admission
$19 in advance
$22 at the door
Stu./Sen./idNYC
$15
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Credits
Phoebe Legere (Joe Carstairs, Dolly Wilde, Natalie Barney, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Art Direction, Sound Design, Producer, Arranger, Composer)
David Zen Mansley (Army Captain, First Mate, Race Announcer, Commentator, Waiters, Beaver, Death)
Lissa Morra (Direction, Lighting)
Selear Duke (Stage Manager, Prop Mistress, Understudy)
Litza Colon (Boat Design)
Janet Clancy (Rigging)
Shawn Rawls (Choreography)
Sean Harkness (Guitar)
Skip Ward (Bass)
Rob Mitzner (Drums)
PHOTO
Peter Yesley