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Myths and legends are queered up magnificently within the frankly good Remythed at VAULT Festival
“Do you mind if I tell you a story?”
Remythed guarantees “stories, tales and legends; retold, reclaimed, reimagined” and it definitely delivers, cultivating an air of convivial joyousness proper from the second we enter the Pit. The firm of 5 storytellers are mixing it with us – hugs and kisses, compliments on my woolly hat, gives of a selfie with a bust of Apollo…it’s a genuinely relaxed vibe that flows up onto the stage because the lights dim for what feels much less a theatre present and extra a shared dialog with 5 friends (who you want actually have been your friends).
Developed by Roann Hassani McCloskey and Joel Samuels (whose 2019 VAULT present A Wake In Progress ranks as an all-time fave), the intent right here is to queer up the cis, straight default that has been allowed to outline our myth-making throughout a number of cultures. So we revisit the tales of individuals like Scheherazade, Lady Godiva and Anansi however with the inclusion of the queer individuals who have at all times been right here and who will at all times be right here, it doesn’t matter what pernicious political rhetoric is launched and relaunched our manner.
And thus, queer pleasure abounds – the emotive potential of myths has lengthy been transportative, however there’s no substitute for the ability of a extra inclusive outlook on life. Seeing Lilith reject gender norms at the same time as the primary girl is extraordinary, extra enbies within the Garden of Eden please! Watching Lady Godiva fall for her tailor, a spinster known as Tommy, proves to be one of the erotic issues I’ve seen all years. There’s the same thrilling cost to watching Anansi information a homosexual Black man to a spot of self-love in a courting world dominated by ‘no fats, no femmes, no blacks’.
As the corporate of Hassani McCloskey, Samuels, Lucy Roslyn, Emile Clarke and Ishmael Kirby as drag king/factor! Cyro conjure up these worlds of queer inclusivity, they too function in an inclusive house. Sharing the leads between them, they every dip out and in of one another’s tales as supporting characters and ethical help too, at all times coming again collectively to type a beautiful tableaux, an expressive bodily language additional binding them collectively. God-tier ranges of theatrical magic.