This Friday and Saturday, I'm taking part in a staged reading of the new work from playwright Nelle Tankus. SLACK WATER is the story of Semmie (Miss Violet DeVille), an elder trans woman who is pregnant and wasn't just a few days ago. She demands that it should be a natural birth or nothing at all, tasking her children, Pearl (Sam Ro) and Marge (Jordi Montes), with helping her carry her miraculous child to term.
This staged reading of Slack Water is open to the public via Zoom on Friday, November 19th at 7:00 pm PT with a 15-minute talkback afterward, and Saturday, November 20th at 7:00 pm PT.
Starring: Miss Violet DeVille (she/her/they/them), Sam Ro (they/them), and Jordi Montes (she/her/they/them)
This reading will be close captioned in English using Zoom's captioning function.
This reading takes place on the traditional territories of the Duwamish, the first people of this land, past, and present. To learn more about how to be in the right relationship with the Duwamish, please visit https://www.realrentduwamish.org/
Slack Water - a new play Zoom reading Written by Nelle Tankus Directed by QuiQui Dominguez
We believe theatre should be accessible to all, therefore there is no cost to attend, but there is a suggested donation of $10. This money will go to paying the artists and supporting the reading.
Please send your donations to the playwright's Venmo @nelletankus.
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hell week \ ˈhel wēk \ (noun) Hell week, also called technical week, tech week, tech, techweek, and production week, is the week prior to the opening night of a play, musical or similar production in which all of the technical elements (such as costumes, lights, sound, set and makeup) are present during rehearsal for the first time.
I'm am safe ensconced in my host's home up here in Vancouver as we prepare for the opening of the Geekender's Neverland Night Circus run for the Vancouver Fringe Festival. We spent a few hours last night blocking my scene--figuring out how I'm moving--and what bits of business we're going to be doing with my character.
And who am I? Why, only the fairy mother of the night, midwife to sleeper’s dreams, Queen Mab. A simple “your majesty” will suffice.
Tonight is tech rehearsal. The plan is to run the show at least 3 times tonight. The Neverland Night Circus is an immersive piece of theater, set up in a similar fashion to haunted attractions, where groups of audience members walk from scene to scene which enforces social distancing and small groups in this time of plague. I'm super excited about this innovative approach to managing COVID risk in the theater.
The Neverland Night Circus is a retelling of the Peter Pan story. It's delightful and innovative in its telling.
"Come away with me."
You hesitate... But who doesn't want to run away with the circus?
You escape to a big top lost outside of time, an ephemeral spectacle that springs up every night at dusk in an explosion of music and glitter, only to disappear again as sunbeams crawl over the morning horizon. Audience members will follow that perpetual boy to meet scintillating mermaids, beautiful fairies, and the hopeful Wendy, deciding as she does whether to stay in Neverland... or to fly away home.
The Neverland Night Circus at the Vancouver Fringe Festival opens Friday night, September 10th, and continues through the 19th. Tickets are $15 and the show runs for about an hour. Tickets are available here.
Come run away with me. The circus beckons you to join us!
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Royal Angels Present Hot Wench Summer (and Swain)
Come enjoy a free pirate-themed burlesque and drag variety show!
July 14th, 2021 Doors at 7:00 pm Show at 8:00 pm All Ages until 9:00 pm
With indoor and outdoor seating!
Raffle prizes abound!
Guest host Miss Violet DeVille Music by DJ Clove Sloth
Swashbuckling Performers • Muse Macabre • Maria Gonorrhea • Ahri Catastrophe • Kim Blythe • Mercy Stackhouse • Russell Roberre Royale • Curvy Cake Royale Picadilly Circus 1104 First Street Snohomish, WA
Wheelchair accessible and dog-friendly venue
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Do you miss the Saturday morning cartoons of your childhood?
Let's bring them back, but add a little spice... Join us on the third Saturday of each month for a sexy variety show chock full of the vitamins and nutrients your body needs - and by that I mean mimosas! Enjoy act after act as Miss Ellie Fox introduces you to her special guest co-hosts Sparkle Kraken and Lexxi Shackels as we learn more about them as performers!
Your Cast:
- Audrey Azazel
- Dark Felina
- Eva D'Luscious
- Holden McGroin-Yaz
- Kitten A. Round
- Lexxi Shackels
- Scarlett O'Heartless
- Temera Titty
- and Miss Violet DeVille
Tickets for July 17th at 10:00 am PT are available from http://tinyurl.com/riseandgrind1
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I have long loved horror movies and horror comic books and the 1982 film CREEPSHOW was the perfect melding of the two. Last night was the WEIRD TALES VIRTUAL ANTHOLOGY #6, in which I had the joy of sharing my CREEPSHOW inspired act, The Lonesome Death of Jody Verrill is free to watch.
The show is free to watch and airs every Tuesday and Thursday night through Halloween at 7:00 pm ET/4:00 pm PT.
Last night's show featured the following performances:
- "The Garden" by Lola La Colombe
- "Amazing Grace" by London St. Juniper
- "The Lonesome Death of Jody Verrill" by Miss Violet DeVille
- "Rattlin' Bones" by Taras Nadtochii
- "A Racial History of Spooking" by Harley Honey
WEIRD TALES #6 is sponsored by Scarlet Envelope, Escape Room style games for playing at home.
Please tip the performers. We work hard to bring you this entertainment.
Won't you come and watch?
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The show poster from Life, The Universe and Pasties from 2014, when I celebrated for my 42nd birthday.
Next Tuesday, my fourth decade gets closer to a close as I turn 48. So far, this has been my favorite decade. This weekend, I am doing things I love. Like spending the weekend with my family, including my eldest step-daughter from my first marriage. I feel so blessed to have reconnected with her after all these years.
Madame DeVille plotting my cake and dinner for Saturday, but also a mystery dinner. I have I can eat it! Even if I can't, the thought is still extremely sweet and I appreciate it.
The first thing that I love doing is photographing a show, Behind The Garage Door: A Burlesque Show on Friday night at 7:30 pm at Bad Jimmy's Brewing Co. I love capturing artists in the middle of their performances, whether a behind the scenes photo or a photo captured in the middle of passion realized on stage. Let's be clear, the line up for this show is amazing and will knock your stripy socks off. Performances from Whisper De Corvo, Mx Pucks A Plenty, Carson St Clair, Lavish Leone, Coco Lopez, Vena Kahlo, Emerald Rain, Amara Strutt, Pat Smear, and your host, Moxie Blue. Tickets are limited, so get yours today for some live burlesque for the first time since March.
Saturday night, I'm performing in Royal T's Queen's Night 5: Birthday Bash! Not only am I celebrating my birthday that night, Royal T, Montreal's premiere multi-disciplinarian troupe bringing burlesque, circus, and variety performances. And they are celebrating 5 years of performance goodness. The very hot line up for the evening includes Royal T, Sis Void, Evora Night, Soly Luna, Ozalee Phoenix, Dark Felina, Symbiosis, Rasa Vitalia, Noéline La Bouche, me, and Shyama! This international lineup is going to be AMAZEBALLS! The show will stream live from Facebook Live and Zoom!
It's one week and I am stoked!
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"It's a really hard time for applause junkies right now." - A fellow troupe member
Chronically Fabulous, January 25th, 2020Oh. My. Goddess. It felt so damn good having an actual audience to play off of. Even if I was under a bunch of personal protective equipment and keeping 6 feet apart. Like you do.
Wait, let me give a little more content. It was a solo show for the improv troupe, being the entertainment for the client's 40th birthday party. We create an immersive murder mystery dinner theater in public venues and for private clients.
Sure, there's a script that contains the skeleton of the mystery and the framework of the clues, prop lists, and a collection of suspects to create a reproducible mystery framework. Our improv is built around this script and because the show is immersive, the audience is an integral part of the productions. It should go without saying, the audience doesn't have a copy of the script. That makes every show unique and magical. Everything is a gift, including the curve balls that come out of nowhere.
Last night was no exception. They were such a great audience, make no mistake about that. The client, who received the Killer Birthday award, her boss who took home the Best Actor award, and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. My favorite team out of the bunch--and it was really hard to pick a favorite--had to be the team named Threesome. Their energy was fantastic, they were so into it. Even if they didn't solve the mystery and had the most wrong answer of the evening, they owned it celebrating that wrong answer in all its glory.
It wouldn't be live theater without some technical glitch. In this case, that glitch was the face shield kept running up against my lavalier microphone. That made the mic practically useless for the evening. Fortunately, I'm a mouthy broad and I can project with the best of them.
This is was the first show I've done since early March, right before I had my surgery and it was the first time I've done this particular show since last December. I even mixed up a murderer from a different show with this one during one of my run-throughs. Whoops! It was a good thing I didn't do that during the live show. "I'm sorry," I can hear a confused hypothetical audience member say, "but who is REDACTED?" Yeah, that's a different show.
It was good to be back.
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From Midnight Mystery Theater's 2019 show The Case of the Missing Beagle at the Palace Theater and Art Bar
This is exciting! Tomorrow night I'm doing a radio play over Zoom! I'll be in the Midnight Mystery Theater's Annual Women's show, The Case of the Missing Scarlett!! For your entertainment, I will be playing not just one character but four!
It’s another madcap mystery, this time in Hollywood with Hollywood Private Eye Helena Handbasket, and a cast of zany characters, all played by the talented ladies of MMT and beyond!
Joining me in this screwball comedy is Gail Wamba Flynn-Kibbey as Helena Handbasket, Lindsey Dabek, Maureen Hawkins, Melissa Henderson, Bonnie Hillman, and Jane Martin! Bob Blumenthal is mixing our music and Josh Flynn-Kibbey is providing the sound effects!!
The house opens at 8:25 PM and the last guests will be admitted at 8:35 PM – please be there by that time so we can let you into our show.
Here's the Zoom link so you can see then show! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88527622387?pwd=T3dSTGNyNU5rR1VCODEwQzN0UGRWQT09
I hope you'll join us. These shows are always a lot of fun!
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I know this is a late addition to the performance schedule, but it's going to be a lot of fun!
The fun begins at 7:00 PM eastern time, or 4:00 PM pacific time, streaming live from Facebook!
You can watch the stream via the Facebook event page.
Now for a word from my producer.
“It's time for our weekly We Are Trans Live Stream show. this will be our last one before we go on a pre festival hiatus so you don't want to miss this one. Tune in to see another amazing line up of trans performers from around the world. Hosted by Sammie James and Christian Luu. We include artist venmo or other tipping options so you can support the acts.”
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