Q-STAGE: New Works Series 

About

Q-STAGE: New Works Series annually produces the work of four local queer emerging artists across two weekends of performance. Q-STAGE seeks to shift consciousness of and about queer identity through new performance work, facilitate conversation surrounding queer identities and queer art, and contribute to the growth of local, emerging queer artists.

20% Theatre Company presents the 6th annual Q-STAGE: New Works Series featuring four experimental world premiere performances created by local queer artists Taylor Seaberg, Dua Saleh, Keila Anali Saucedo and D. Allen. Q-STAGE 2019 new works include a mix of live music, theatre, video, movement, poetry and storytelling. Set A featuring Taylor Seaberg and Dua Saleh runs Thursday-Saturday, May 9-11 at 7:30pm. Set B featuring Keila Anali Saucedo and D. Allen runs Thursday-Saturday, May 16-18 at 7:30pm.

Q-STAGE will perform at Phoenix Theater, 2605 Hennepin Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55408

TICKETS: $5-$25 Sliding Scale - pay what you can in that range!

**ASL-interpreted performances TBA
**Venu accessible
**Single-stall, all-gender bathrooms on-site

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SET A ft. Taylor Seaberg and Dua Saleh - Thursday, Friday & Saturday, May 9-11 @ 7:30pm

"Weirdo_Indigo Child"

Written and directed by Taylor Seaberg. Featuring Taylor Seaberg, Salecia Barry and Nia Madison.

"Weirdo_Indigo Child" is a loosely autobiographical, audio/visual play about Evelyn (Evy) Ngiri (Salecia Barry), a genderqueer, Kenyan-American who spends their life growing up on military bases with an adoptive white father enlisted in the Air Force and a hyper-religious, assimilated Black mother. Evy is a boisterous, outspoken, and political black punk rocker going through the growing pains of adolescence and coming-of-age queerness with their confident and charismatic best friend, Cicada Otieno (Nia Madison). The play follows Evy’s search for validity in their identity and conflict over joining the military reflecting their race, sexuality and gender through love of playing the electric guitar and punk music.

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"Displacements and Diaries"

Performed, written and directed by Dua Saleh with contributions from Beth Peloff and Psymun Christensen.

"Displacements and Diaries" is a four-part immersive stage performance that incorporates prose, film, live vocal composition, and theater.

SET B ft. Keila Anali Saucedo and D. Allen - Thursday, Friday & Saturday, May 16-18 @ 7:30pm

"Brujeri´a for Beginners"

De parte de Keila Anali Saucedo. Directed by Marcela Michelle with sound design by Eric Gonzalez. Featuring Atquetzali Quiroz, Johanna Keller Flores, Lelis Brito, Stephanie Ruas, Xochi de la Luna, Martin Patino and Keila Anali Saucedo.

"Brujeri´a for Beginners" explores what it might mean to reimagine Mexican people as complex, magical, and in touch with the reality of their xicanx spirituality. The play follows a family while grief is closing in around them. As they try to process their worlds, they explore catholicism, witchcraft, and indigenous spirituality to find their way to the holy. Guided by spirits, love for each other and ancestors (always), they find their way to claiming power and possibility.

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"Net/work"

Created and performed by D. Allen.

"Net/work" is an immersive performance experiment by multidisciplinary poet D. Allen, in which the artist explores what scholar Ellen Samuels calls "crip time" - the unpredictable, non-normative ways in which time moves for disabled body-minds. Within a web of sound, words, light, images, movement, and large-scale textiles created by hand over a period of months, D. welcomes you into a tangible experience of crip time based on their own life with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), as well as the words and work of others in D.'s community and beyond. Net/work is an adaptive environment that allows disabled consciousness to fill up the whole space and be held in all its grief, pain, rage, desire, connection, pleasure, frustration, loss, intimacy, ease, silence.