GLORY!

A contemporary dance docu-drama. A love letter to our enemies. A transfeminist fantasia. A bad idea and a good time. Come into the mansion. Nothing bad could possibly happen.

What do you do when your favourite children’s media is used by people who hate you? Using the New York Times’ recent transphobic repurposing of the classic ‘70s children’s album Free to Be… You and Me as a jumping off-point, GLORY! ventures into the labyrinthian rabbit-warren of the Playboy mansion to explore party planning, 70’s idealism, and the anthropocene.

An audacious collective creation by award-winning, nationally touring Winnipeg theatre collective We Quit Theatre (Dasha Plett and Gislina Patterson), joined by collaborators Emma Beech, Arne MacPherson, and Dhanu Chinniah. An exciting hybrid of theatre, dance, and obsessive research, GLORY! mines the political, aesthetic, and libinal contradictions of the 70s to grapple with our present moment of crisis. Part late night Wikipedia wormhole, part underground performance art, part earnest exploration of what it means to be trans right now, GLORY! brings We Quit Theatre’s signature mix of delight, profundity, and iconoclasm to hometown audiences in this remarkable world premiere.