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Out in the Tropics | July 7-11, 2010
South Florida’s first full-fledged gay contemporary performing arts festival.
The festival will present award-winning, cutting-edge GLBT performing
artists from around the world who address broad gender and social issues,
for an extended weekend of shows and other events.
Gender-bending, lesbian marriage, Cuban theater, queer circus arts, racy humor,
laughter, tears and much more will fill the stage at Out in the Tropics, South Florida’s
first Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) contemporary performing arts
festival, from July 7-11, 2010. A stellar group of award-winning, cutting-edge artists
from around the world are already set for the festival’s line-up at Miami Beach’s Colony
Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, and other venues. Out in the Tropics, presented by
FUNDarte, one of South Florida’s most successful presenters of alternative culture, in
association with Tropical Wave Productions, was launched this past November with a
wildly successful one-night showcase.
The festival’s first two performances at the Colony Theatre on Thursday, July 8 and
Friday, July 9, at 8:00 pm, are by Teatro El Público, Cuba’s most important and daring
theater company, for the first time in the U.S. They will present Las Amargas Lágrimas
de Petra Von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant), their Spanish-language
theatrical reinterpretation of the classic film by famed bad-boy German director Rainer
Werner Fassbinder. The twist in this version is that the parts of the three main female
characters, who are involved in a dark and dramatic but also hilarious lesbian love-
triangle, are all played by male actors.
Out in the Tropics | July 7-11, 2010
South Florida’s first full-fledged gay contemporary performing arts festival.
The festival will present award-winning, cutting-edge GLBT performing
artists from around the world who address broad gender and social issues,
for an extended weekend of shows and other events.
Gender-bending, lesbian marriage, Cuban theater, queer circus arts, racy humor,
laughter, tears and much more will fill the stage at Out in the Tropics, South Florida’s
first Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender (GLBT) contemporary performing arts
festival, from July 7-11, 2010. A stellar group of award-winning, cutting-edge artists
from around the world are already set for the festival’s line-up at Miami Beach’s Colony
Theatre, 1040 Lincoln Road, and other venues. Out in the Tropics, presented by
FUNDarte, one of South Florida’s most successful presenters of alternative culture, in
association with Tropical Wave Productions, was launched this past November with a
wildly successful one-night showcase.
The festival’s first two performances at the Colony Theatre on Thursday, July 8 and
Friday, July 9, at 8:00 pm, are by Teatro El Público, Cuba’s most important and daring
theater company, for the first time in the U.S. They will present Las Amargas Lágrimas
de Petra Von Kant (The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant), their Spanish-language
theatrical reinterpretation of the classic film by famed bad-boy German director Rainer
Werner Fassbinder. The twist in this version is that the parts of the three main female
characters, who are involved in a dark and dramatic but also hilarious lesbian love-
triangle, are all played by male actors.
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El Público’s founder Carlos Díaz, one of Latin America’s most well-known theater
directors, brings his uniquely modernist Cuban sensibility to this award-winning
production. The play will be performed both nights with English subtitles.
Out in the Tropics continues on Saturday, July 10, at 8:00 pm, at the Colony, with the
South Florida premiere of The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, featuring sensational gender
deconstructionist, performer, actor, composer and director Taylor Mac in this solo
show. The evening is funny, surprising and adults-only outrageous, as Mac slips in
and out of his stunning outfits, pieces of art in and of themselves, tells stories from
his life, and sings his unique brand of smart and provocative original songs. In The Be
(a)st of Taylor Mac, which was a hit at New York’s Under the Radar and the Edinburgh
Fringe festivals, he is reimagining a bohemian tradition of drag that ranges from
Jackie Curtis to Bloolips to John Cameron Mitchell. Mac has won numerous awards
in his long career, including most recently a Hammerstein Award for playwriting, and
been named one of Out Magazine’s 100 for 2008.
The festival closes on Sunday, July 11, at 7:00 pm at the Colony Theatre, with Sara
Felder in the South Florida premiere of June Bride, her one-woman multi-character
theater piece that has traveled around the world. The play takes the audience from an
awkward first date between Felder and her soon-to-be
directors, brings his uniquely modernist Cuban sensibility to this award-winning
production. The play will be performed both nights with English subtitles.
Out in the Tropics continues on Saturday, July 10, at 8:00 pm, at the Colony, with the
South Florida premiere of The Be(a)st of Taylor Mac, featuring sensational gender
deconstructionist, performer, actor, composer and director Taylor Mac in this solo
show. The evening is funny, surprising and adults-only outrageous, as Mac slips in
and out of his stunning outfits, pieces of art in and of themselves, tells stories from
his life, and sings his unique brand of smart and provocative original songs. In The Be
(a)st of Taylor Mac, which was a hit at New York’s Under the Radar and the Edinburgh
Fringe festivals, he is reimagining a bohemian tradition of drag that ranges from
Jackie Curtis to Bloolips to John Cameron Mitchell. Mac has won numerous awards
in his long career, including most recently a Hammerstein Award for playwriting, and
been named one of Out Magazine’s 100 for 2008.
The festival closes on Sunday, July 11, at 7:00 pm at the Colony Theatre, with Sara
Felder in the South Florida premiere of June Bride, her one-woman multi-character
theater piece that has traveled around the world. The play takes the audience from an
awkward first date between Felder and her soon-to-be
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girlfriend to the struggle to hold a “lesbian wedding ceremony” that, while radical in its
pairing of two women, is also a “traditional” Jewish one. While the subject matter may
be serious, Felder mines it for both comedy and pathos, blending traditional theater
with a zany range of circus arts – including 3-ball juggling,, sharp knives, colorful
scarves, a crystal ball and a straitjacket escape – to create her signature vaudevillian
style that is both engaging and thought provoking.
In addition to the Colony Theatre shows, there will be a number of other events
throughout the five-day festival. On opening night Wednesday, July 7, at 7:00 pm all
festival performing artists plus additional guests will participate in a panel discussion
entitled Queer Culture, Global Culture,Details and locations on all these events to-be-
announced. followed by a reception, that is free and open to the public. During the
festival, participating artists will be offering workshops for GLBT teenagers, master
classes for professional artists, and attending parties after their shows.
More info:
www.fundarte.us/fundarte_event.php?id=82
pairing of two women, is also a “traditional” Jewish one. While the subject matter may
be serious, Felder mines it for both comedy and pathos, blending traditional theater
with a zany range of circus arts – including 3-ball juggling,, sharp knives, colorful
scarves, a crystal ball and a straitjacket escape – to create her signature vaudevillian
style that is both engaging and thought provoking.
In addition to the Colony Theatre shows, there will be a number of other events
throughout the five-day festival. On opening night Wednesday, July 7, at 7:00 pm all
festival performing artists plus additional guests will participate in a panel discussion
entitled Queer Culture, Global Culture,Details and locations on all these events to-be-
announced. followed by a reception, that is free and open to the public. During the
festival, participating artists will be offering workshops for GLBT teenagers, master
classes for professional artists, and attending parties after their shows.
More info:
www.fundarte.us/fundarte_event.php?id=82
Out in the Tropics Festival June 7-11, 2010 |
