Le Gateau Chocolat & Adrienne Truscott: GREY ARIAS
Drag diva feminist meets comedian provocateur for a rambunctious match made on eggshells, featuring musical numbers and political debate.
Le Gateau Chocolat is a multi-award-winning, plus-sized, bearded, drag diva feminist. Adrienne Truscott is a multi-award-winning comedian and provocateur who enjoys chocolate cake, up to a point.
They are dear friends and here, as in everyday life, they perform a multiplicity of identities: perceived, lived and projected.
As their comical banter turns personal, political debates erupt, and grey areas (and arias) are exposed.
Between musical numbers, they spring rhetorical traps designed to catch any who overstep the blurred lines of the politically correct and interrogate the boundaries of allyship.
When the ‘faggot’ faces the ‘feminist’, they ask: ‘How does one walk the fine line that delineates marginalised perspectives?’
In heels, obviously. Crack!
Le Gateau Chocolat is a one-man, larger-than-life musical phenomenon, wrapped in dazzling sequinned lycra, who was named by Time Out London as one of its top-10 cabaret stars. His work spans drag, cabaret, opera, musical theatre, children’s theatre and live art, and his bewitching baritone has been heard from Sydney Opera House to Royal Albert Hall and Bayreuth Festival.
Adrienne Truscott is a choreographer, circus acrobat, dancer, writer, storyteller and comedian. She has been making genre-straddling performances in New York City and abroad for over 20 years. She was one of 20 artists selected nationally for the inaugural 2014 Doris Duke Impact Artist Award and is a 2017 Foundation for Contemporary Arts grantee for theatre/performance art.
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