Trav S.D.'s History of Drag in Vaudeville

Trav S.’D,. (whose show “Horse Play” was featured in the 2012 HOT! Festival starring Everett Quinton and Molly Pope, and produced by Theatre Askew) delivers this fun and fast-moving lecture/slideshow chronicling the history of drag queens and drag kings of the 19th and early 20th century. The wide-ranging talk includes great Pantomime Dames and Principal Boys of the Music Hall and English Panto, gender bending “Protean” actors of the legit stage, female and male impersonators of American vaudeville., cross-dressing trapeze artists and other acrobats, and bawdy nightclub drag queens of the Jazz Age. The talk will also touch on the highs and lows of how drag fit into the overall vaudeville and show biz universe. A glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of true cultural pioneers.