Step inside the creative process of Roger Q. Mason & Carly DW Bones as they develop Untitled Lysistrata Project, a new play about sex work, AI, and performative liberalism...
About the play:
A regional theater near collapse sells its soul to a corporate tech company in exchange for a Digital Innovation & Equity grant. To secure the loot – and buy instant “authenticity” – the theatre hires a cast of Queer and Trans sex workers to perform a live-streamed, AI-integrated adaptation of the classic Greek play, Lysistrata. When rehearsal footage leaks, sensitive information is exposed about the lead actor, and the play's classic sex strike stops being just a script and gets real as hell.
Roger Q. Mason's radical new exploration of Lysistrata is a metatheatrical examination of data protection, the dangers of performative liberalism, and the radical decision to log off from our extractive world.
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Co-presented by Coin & Ghost and Los Angeles LGBT Center, the same team behind Queer Magic Drag Karaoke Kingdom and The Index of Forbidden Books!