The only rule is to break the rules. In a parallel present, two queer radicals meet in the fallout of The Second American Civil War. If love is the most radical act, can their desire survive the revolution? Based on Montaigne's intellectual love affair with political thinker Étienne de La Boétie, Sylvan Oswald's brand-new play Trainers is a visionary story exploring the di The only rule is to break the rules. In a parallel present, two queer radicals meet in the fallout of The Second American Civil War. If love is the most radical act, can their desire survive the revolution? Based on Montaigne's intellectual love affair with political thinker Étienne de La Boétie, Sylvan Oswald's brand-new play Trainers is a visionary story exploring the different ways we can connect as lovers, activists, and humans.
Trainers or the Brutal Unpleasant Atmosphere of This Most Disagreeable Season: A Theatrical Essay
The only rule is to break the rules. In a parallel present, two queer radicals meet in the fallout of The Second American Civil War. If love is the most radical act, can their desire survive the revolution? Based on Montaigne's intellectual love affair with political thinker Étienne de La Boétie, Sylvan Oswald's brand-new play Trainers is a visionary story exploring the di The only rule is to break the rules. In a parallel present, two queer radicals meet in the fallout of The Second American Civil War. If love is the most radical act, can their desire survive the revolution? Based on Montaigne's intellectual love affair with political thinker Étienne de La Boétie, Sylvan Oswald's brand-new play Trainers is a visionary story exploring the different ways we can connect as lovers, activists, and humans.
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Aaron Thomas –
I really liked this. It's simple and theatrical and surprising. It seems perfect for our present moment: a monologue (or maybe more voices) that can be performed over videochat or the phone or over text message. And it's about the revolution and queer relationality... and possession. For the revolution we must be able to imagine otherwise, to imagine relations that are different, technologies that are different, ways of caring for each other differently. But most of us have a failure of imaginat I really liked this. It's simple and theatrical and surprising. It seems perfect for our present moment: a monologue (or maybe more voices) that can be performed over videochat or the phone or over text message. And it's about the revolution and queer relationality... and possession. For the revolution we must be able to imagine otherwise, to imagine relations that are different, technologies that are different, ways of caring for each other differently. But most of us have a failure of imagination. This play believes that the theatre can be about re-imagining or even about imagination as such. This play is also about relating queerly. And about Michel de Montaigne and Étienne de la Boétie. And it's about exercise, or at least about personal trainers. (Is this also an AIDS play? / Of course it's an AIDS play what a question.)
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