SweLL Toronto & Ottawa performance

Red Dress Productions presents
SweLL
the (re)iteration of TASTE THIS, notorious Vancouver-based queer performance troupe that co-authored BOYS LIKE HER: TRANSFICTIONS

TORONTO, ON performance
Doors 7:30, Show 8:00 pm | Tuesday April 27, 2010
Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander Street
Tickets $12- $20 sliding scale
Advance Tix: Toronto Women’s Bookstore 73 Harbord Street

TORONTO, ON workshops
Thursday April 29, 2010 | 6:30-9 pm @ the 519
Tickets $10, register at www.mayworks.ca
Mayworks Festival is pleased to bring together this literary powerhouse: 1) memoir writing with Ivan E. Coyote, 2) entering writing with curiosity and creative license with Anna Camilleri, or 3) performing your poetry with Ami Mattison.


OTTAWA, ON performance
Doors 8:30, Show 9:00 pm | Friday April 30, 2010
Club SAW, 67 Nicholas Street
Tickets $12- $20 sliding scale
Advance Tix: Venus Envy 320 Lisgar Street

SweLL is the (re)iteration of TASTE THIS, a Vancouver-based performance troupe Taste This that created and toured four stage works in Canada and the US, between 1995 and 2000, and co-authored Boys Like Her: Transfictions (Press Gang Publishers © 1998) to critical and public acclaim. After a nine-year hiatus as collaborators and many book, performance, and recorded works to their individual credit, founding members “cultural agitator and fab femme (NOW)” Anna Camilleri, “natural-born storyteller (Globe and Mail)” Ivan E. Coyote, and “musical genius (Xtra)” Lyndell Montgomery initiated SweLL to create So The Story Goes, for which they are joined by visual artist Leslie Peters.

The premiere one-off performance of So The Story Goes was presented by the 10th Annual Vancouver Pride in Art Festival on August 2, 2009, to a sold-out, standing ovation house at the Roundhouse Theatre.

A lot has changed since Taste This emerged onto the cultural scene, but the issues that the earlier performance project inhabited continue to be relevant—questions of gender, sexuality, desire, culture and class, rural versus city life, and kinship. Home stories. Queer tales. Stories that swell and implode the spaces between cultural institutions and queer landscapes; between female and male; between tightly produced performance and kitchen table talk.

“Their (Taste This) rigorous exploration of gender and sexuality opened up strange new worlds posing enough threat to shut down all the arts funding in Alberta.”
—Mix Magazine

“Boys Like Her speaks eloquently of the need for civil rights for all of us . . . ”
—Library Journal

Inquiries:
Red Dress Productions E: reddressproductions@gmail.com
Mayworks Festival T: 416. 599. 9096 W: www.mayworks.ca

Red Dress Productions gratefully acknowledges the support of the Ontario Arts Council’s Multi Arts Program, Mayworks Festival, our Toronto presentation partner, and community sponsors Venus Envy [.ca], No More Potlucks [.org], and Toronto Women’s Bookstore.