DOUBLE FEATURE
the surgery
BY: Weird Things For Imaginary People
Improvised film Noir
BY: butch / femme fatale
The Surgery
Trans people are losing our right to exist. Cis people are not doing enough to defend those rights—maybe because they don't have a surgery that immediately improves their lives, affirms them in their identities, and reduces their risk of suicide by 90%.
Not until today.
In The Surgery, a lucky audience volunteer gets their chance to get The Surgery that everyone's been talking about.
IMPROVISED FILM NOIR
Five unlikely detectives wrestle 1940’s injustices. Max Couch: Lady Detective — struggles to survive on lady wages. Kit Mason: Licensed Detective — keeps her license in her pocket and wears her heart on her sleeve. Veranda Davenport: Socialite — she has her lips to a martini and her ears to the tea. Herbie Murphy: Licensed Janitor — he has a collar that is blue but a heart of gold. Frank Trigger: Private Eye — he’s too over-confident to know he’s under-informed.
Showtimes | 60 min | rated pg-13
sunday, Oct 12
1:30 PM
WEDNESDAY, Oct 15
9:00 PM (w/ASL Interpretation)
CAST & CREW
THE SURGERY
Nathalie Owen FitzSimons (she/they/it): Deviser
improvised film noir
Cory Merrill
Anne Jones
Kerry McPherson
Stephen Burgess
Rebecca Feldman
ARTIST BIO
WEIRD THINGS FOR IMAGINARY PEOPLE
Portland, OR
Nathalie Owen FitzSimons is a clown, theatre technician, synth player and horror scholar in Portland, OR.
She has her MFA from Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre and has dreams of getting her doctorate to spite those FOOLS at the university who mocked her.
She'll show them. SHE'LL SHOW THEM ALL!
ARTIST BIO
BUTCH / FEMME FATALE
PORTLAND, OR
Cory Merrill, Anne Jones, Kerry McPherson, Stephen Burgess and Rebecca Feldman play our five unlikely detectives. One fateful night, Destiny played her hand and put them together at the poker table of life.
For two years Butch Femme Fatale have played in worlds of crime. They’ve tangled with family dramas, political mischief and mobster murders; discovering that noir is actually comedy. Now with aches in their bellies and laugh lines so deep even their own mothers don’t recognize them.