TALK BACK: The Politics of Fabulousness by Judy Klass

Written By Judy Klass  Music & Lyrics by Judy Klass  A Virtual Play Reading by the Quarantine Players Gary hopes to re-connect with his estranged older sister Kay, who is visiting Kansas City, where Gary now lives, for an academic conference. Gary lives with Eytan, who was Kay’s high school best friend; now Eytan and Kay hate each other. Eytan and Gary write humorous songs which Gary sings as a character called Ovaria Strange. Kay considers drag to be misogynist: a caricature of women – a kind of minstrel show. Eytan considers Kay a humorless feminist spouting tiresome theory and jargon, ridiculously teaching African-American studies when she’s white, (which is also a kind of minstrel show, he argues), though Kay is married to Curtis, who’s black, and Eytan has a problem with Kay teaching Women & Gender Studies when (he contends) she’s too uptight and homophobic to talk to college kids about gender. Directed by Lori Muhlstein Produced by A. J. Campbell, Quarantine Players Cast Sara Lucchini as Kay Cameron Lee Conlan as Gary and Ovaria Strange Michale L. Young as Eytan Trevor Butler as Curtis Available on our Youtube Page and on your Amazon Fire Device Watch our performances on your smart TV with our new Amazon Fire App  Say so long to huddling around the computer.  If you don't have Amazon Fire Stick or Amazon enabled device, you can still watch all of our great performances and interviews on our Youtube channel. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08VJHBT8W/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCwEmvmRQlru6D8JyVxCb7w About Judy Klass Eight of Judy's full-length plays have been produced. One, Cell, was nominated for an Edgar and is published by Samuel French/Concord. Country Fried Murder won the S.O.P.S. competition and was produced at the Shawnee Playhouse in Pennsylvania. Stop Me If You've Heard This One won the Dorothy Silver Award. Thirty-six of her one-act plays have been produced, many with multiple productions, all over the country, and a few have gone up in the UK and Ireland. Three are slated to be produced in Canada. Three of Judy's short plays are published, each as a stand-alone script, by Brooklyn Publishers. Some of her short plays have become podcasts. Filmed versions of several can be viewed on the Shelter Plays platform. Her plays have been published in Seven Hills Review, the Rockhurst Review, The Courtship of Winds, The Art of the One-Act -- and one is in press in The Best New Ten-Minute Plays 2021.   Website: http://www.judy-klass.com  NPX:   https://newplayexchange.org/users/5340/judy-klass About the Quarantine Players Website:   https://quarantineplayers.org/ Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/QuarantinePlayers Podcast:    https://twitter.com/q_players Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/quarantineplayers We can all sit around and list off the problems with modern theater so I won’t bore you with a recitation of facts we all largely agree upon. The Quarantine Players are a scrappy theater start-up that is in a position to break all the rules. We were told we can’t put out new work all the time. Yes, we can you just have to treat playwrights like we matter, make them part of the process, and value our input.