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Sour Grapes Productions Co-Founder Genny Yosco has announced a slate of live virtual shows this weekend: JANUARY 15th, 7pm EST:  SILENT BUT DEADLY: A Mime Experience On Friday January 15th (Yosco's birthday!) at 7pm, the newest virtual installment of SILENT BUT DEADLY: A Mime Experience comes to screens near you. Following the overwhelming support the mimes got for their previous virtual endeavors, they are unfortunately back and here to bother you all once again. "They have modernized Mime in a way that we haven’t seen before but we really hope to see again... Their devotion to craziness is just downright what we need in our lives right now," raves the Young-Hozwe Theatre Journal . The show is free for everyone to watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnmNKjISCzc The show can be re-watched any time! JANUARY 16th, 7pm ES T:  A Midsummer Night Stream This is the premiere of the sequel to im ur hamlet ., titled A Midsummer Night Stream . As you may already know, im u...

#txtshow (on the internet) Created and performed by Brian Feldman Presented by the 2020 Philadelphia Fringe Festival (September 10-October 4, 2020) and Rochester Fringe Festival  (September 17-26, 2020) via Zoom Tickets available at: Philadelphia Fringe ; Rochester Fringe Brian Feldman as txt. Image courtesy Brian Feldman Watching Brian Feldman's experimental, immersive, interactive #txtshow (on the internet) brought to mind the plot thread in Umberto Eco's novel Foucault's Pendulum in which the protagonists use a computer to generate randomized assemblages of texts to help them to create a fabricated history, which is then received as real. Here, the character txt (Feldman) speaks assemblages of spontaneously generated text(s) from the audience in order to create the reality of the show, which, strictly speaking, is also made up of everything else going on the viewer's screen at the same time. It's all very postmodern. It's all very fun. Feldman's shows ...

Go Puck Yourself: A Shakesqueer Comedy Adapted by Chris Weigandt and Genny Yosco Directed by Genny Yosco Presented by FRIGID New York and Sour Grapes Productions at The Kraine Theater 85 E 4th St., Manhattan, NYC July 18-August 4, 2019 Genny Yosco, Dorie Casper, Andy McCain. Photo credit: Matthew Sears. When people think of William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , most likely to come first to mind are faeries or a man with the head of a donkey. What looms less large in the popular imagination is the threat in the play's opening scene by Theseus, Duke of Athens, to execute Hermia or banish her to a convent if she does not obey patriarchal dictates regarding whom she should marry: "To you your father," Theseus tells her, "should be as a god" ( The Norton Shakespeare , 1.1.47). In a new adaptation by Sour Grapes Productions, this attempted regulation of sexuality serves as a resonant analogy for queer oppression, despite Hermia...

Sour Grapes Productions has announced a new queer comic Shakespeare adaptation, to be presented by FRIGID New York beginning Friday, May 17, 2019. 2 Shrews, 1 Chalice: A Shakesqueer Comedy reimagines and recontextualizes Shakespeare's oft-considered-problematic Taming of the Shrew , describing itself as depicting "the courtship of Patricia and Katherina--both headstrong, loud-mouthed, and unfazed by the "charms" of men. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in any relationship; however, Patricia "tames" her with various BDSM torments, until she becomes a desirable, compliant, and obedient wife." The show stars Genny Yosco as Katherine and Carroll Herring as Patricia, with Claire Unabia, Katherine Yacko, Katrin Mattson, Anthony OConnell, Daniel George, Alexander Gheesling, Hadas Pacholder, Dorie Casper, Ellen Ko, and Elizabeth Claflin rounding out the rest of the cast. While we (the editors of this site) unfortunately can't mak...