LET THEM EAT CAKE
A new play about gay marriage, cupcakes, and the homosexual agenda
Created by Holly Hughes
with Moe Angelos and Megan Carney
Directed by Megan Carney
Acclaimed performance artist Holly Hughes collaborated with Chicago-based director Megan Carney, and Moe Angelos of The Five Lesbian Brothers, on Let Them Eat Cake, a hilarious, audience-interactive exploration of gay marriage as the main item on the homosexual agenda.
With Hughes playing the reluctant wedding planner, Let Them Eat Cake lampoons wedding disasters, bridezillas, reality shows, and other detritus of marriage fever while maintaining that the fight for marriage equality must be won. Comparing progressives who’d prefer to outlaw all marriage to the Ralph Nader voters in the 2000 presidential election, Hughes reminds us with humor and wit that gay marriage isn’t a battle all of us would choose. But it’s here. It’s what’s for dinner.
In the style of Tony and Tina’s Wedding, Let Them Eat Cake invites the audience to be guests at a big gay wedding. But things get complicated when the groom and groom call in sick to their own nuptials. Enter a conflicted lesbian couple; they may not believe in the institution of marriage, but everyone knows lesbians get things done. Will they save the day? That depends on the audience…
Touching on every queer issue there is to argue about, Let Them Eat Cake dabbles in assimilationists, monogamy, femme rage, butch flight, trans politics, ritual piercings, racism and internalized homophobia and in a truly co-dependent manner, then treats the audience to cupcakes. In the end, Let Them Eat Cake asks, “If we all get married, are we still queer?”
Let Them Eat Cake opens in New York on December 2nd at Dixon Place, 161A Chrystie Street, NY, NY 10002
Let Them Eat Cake! 