La MaMa Blogs: Video Teaser: 13 FRUITCAKES

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Video Teaser: 13 FRUITCAKES



La MaMa presents

13 FRUITCAKES

Written & Directed by Byungkoo Ahn 
Song Cycle by Gihieh Lee 
Lyrics by Lorca, Wilde and Other Queer Poets 
Electronic Music by Los Angeles Laptop Collective 

Filled with movement and music, 13 Fruitcakes is a series of 13 staged musical vignettes about 13 significant LGBTQ figures that influence humanity through their great achievements in the arts, politics, philosophy, and science. Moments in the lives of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, Dong Xian (董賢), King Hyegong, Leonardo da Vinci, Hans Christian Andersen, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Gertrude Stein, Virginia Woolf, Alan Turing, Frida Kahlo, Josephine Baker and Eleanor Roosevelt are staged along with a beautiful song cycle based on poems by queer poets such as Wilde, Mew, Whitman, Rimbaud and Lorca.

June 13 - June 16, 2019

Thursday - Saturday at 7PM; Sunday at 3PM

Tickets: $25 Adults/$20 Students and Seniors

For Info and Tickets: CLICK HERE


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