season 4: 2023
season 4 has some exciting new updates!
In addition to four regular play reading episodes, we will be doing four artist interviews and our first ever 24 Hour Play Fest but Make it Podcast.
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This is the first ever artist interview for The Queer Plays Podcast, we are meeting with resident artist Steph Landtiser, who has worked with Theatre Viscera since Season 1 Episode 2 Dead Girl Dancing back in 2020. We discuss their background in theatre, their experiences as a queer musician and performer, and what work they're involved with right now.
This episode was published on February 27th, 2023. |
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Episode two will be our first play reading for the season, Yourd's piece is an exciting aliens in a starship piece without a traditional sense of gender, and we are extremely excited to share it with you all. A starship road trip for sad verbose creatures, Remain in Light is the story of five aliens who live and work aboard a remote space station, venturing out on interplanetary assignments to gather information about other worlds and report what they’ve learned back to their employers (a mysterious entity called “Management”). After a night of partying, the team awakes on a dilapidated starship cruising towards the planet Earth. The recently-promoted Captain seems more interested in doing hallucinatory space drugs and listening to Talking Heads cassette tapes than preparing for the team’s assignment. As the ship approaches the planet, relationships are tested, hierarchies are toppled, and secrets are revealed about Management’s true intentions for the planets they visit.
This episode was published on April 30th, 2023. This episode was directed by Jaime McMichael and features the voice talents of Avery Kester, Lyla Meadows, Bob Stevens, Taylor Veary, and guest starJace Cypress. |
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One Act Special
Season 4 Episode 4
Season 4 Episode 4
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The Emperor has no clothes, at least nothing that connects with their identity. A modern twist on a classic tale about responsibility to self and others, acceptance, and love in its many forms. Mabey's play is the first of our two one acts for this episode and is a beautiful tale of queer love and growth.
This episode is slated for June, 2023. |
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Golden's piece is the second of our two plays for this episode, and is the perfect marriage of funny lobster shenanigans, overthrowing despots, and dealing with unrequited love. Two parallel societies face their own trials. Underwater, a young lobster seeks to overthrow a dictator and rescue her father. On land, a lobsterman struggles with feelings for his partner he doesn't know how to express. In the end, anything can be solved with a good lobster dinner.
This episode is slated for June, 2023. |
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We love a queer adaptation of an ancient Greek story, and Burry's piece is powerful and emotional. Princess Iphigenia was the human sacrifice that began the Trojan War, and Princess Polyxena was the sacrifice that ended it. The first hailed from Greece, the latter came from Troy. Finding themselves in purgatory, they explore what it means to be punctuation marks to an atrocity, how their sacrifices have been framed by artists over the centuries, and how they were both engaged to wed the famed hero Achilles.
This episode has been postponed indefinitely. |
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Rounding out our season will be Kester's newest piece which is a celebration of queer love in which main characters Kai and Daisy meet, fall in love, and eventually move in together. From an awkward first meeting to packing up our lives to move in together, this is a memoir-ish story about falling in love, healing from trauma, and enforcing boundaries with unhealthy bio families.
This episode has been postponed indefinitely. |
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