Closet Freaks

A physical theatre spectacular that strips away the many layers of oppression which exist amid the intersections of disability, sex and society

A Stage Left production

I had the opportunity to work with Michele Decottignies and Alan Shain on the Closet Freaks production.

Putting disability on full frontal dis/play!

Three of Canada’s most daring disabled artists lay bare the sexual politics of disability in the tragic tale of Sip and Cleo: A symbolic love story, told backward – from affirmation to normalization, virility to sterility….

Dramaturge/Director, Michele Decottignies, offers up a playful parable, one that merges the Morality Play with Burlesque and dresses it up in Theatre of Cruelty stagings, to cheekily expose the non-normativity of disability culture.

Co-creators, Alan Shain & Karine Rathle, deliver a physical theatre spectacular that strips away the many layers of oppression which exist amid the intersections of disability, sex and society.