ONEOFUS Julie Atlas Muz & Mat Fraser: Beauty and the Beast

Описание: Story hour for adults. Burlesque star Julie Atlas Muz and comedy genius Mat Fraser (partners in life and theater) expose the social undercurrents of the eighteenth-century fairy tale.

This Beauty and the Beast leads the audience on a magical journey into real and fabled romance, using love and humor plus a healthy dose of nudity to throw open the doors to acceptance. The artists reach maximum enchantment by employing song, dance, puppetry, and shadow play. Fraser, who plays the Beast, was born with phocomelia and has spent his life aware that he looks different. This explicit, adult-themed work repositions the Beast as a natural-born freak to the beauty queen who loves him. Fraser’s custom-made prosthetic arms—which he has said he rarely uses—become a sly leitmotif. Two supporting puppeteers from Improbable, charming and extravagantly costumed, use their own arms to fill in for Fraser in his incarnation from the Beast to Prince for this happily-ever-after Dom/sub story. Muz and Fraser’s sweet, raunchy, and unself-conscious coupling is directed by Phelim McDermott, who staged Philip Glass’s Satayagraha.

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