Rachel Mars' YOUR SEXTS ARE $%!+: OLDER BETTER LETTERS

Award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars returns to Austin, TX with a gloriously rude new show that unearths the hot-as-hell letters that make sexts blush. Before sexts there were hand-written letters. And loads of them were proper filthy. With the help of the internet, friends and two sexologists, Rachel has unearthed missives dating back centuries. Triangulating these sex and love letters of long dead artists with contemporary sexts and a meditation on the construction of the queer female body, the show is a hilarious, tender and surprising hour that asks - how do we write ourselves and for whom? Come! Take pleasure in James Joyce’s passion for arse, find out who sneaked her gay lover into the White House, hear from Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mozart and bear witness to the best/worst sexts ever sent. This delightfully intimate, very funny and surprisingly moving show is an erotic archive shot through with Rachel’s personal ventures in contemporary Queer kink. ONLY 3 PUBLIC PERFORMANCES! Presented by Salvage Vanguard in partnership with UT Austin Performance Philosophy 5th Biennial Conference, “After Tragedy” Thanks you to Rude Mechs and Fusebox for additional support! With material from James Joyce, Mozart, Charles Bukowski, Marcel Proust, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Brother Augustine, Anonymous Rachel Mars Writer & Performer Dinah Mullen Sound Design Alex Fernandes Lighting Design Lesley Ewen Additional Letter Writer/Spoken by Wendy Hubbard and nat tarrab Dramaturgs Lucy Jackson Producer Helen Mugridge Touring Production Manager Sadie Langenkamp ATX tech support & stage management ★★★★ “A triumphant Show…dripping with uninhibited desire.” THE GUARDIAN ★★★★ “What at first seemed to be a comedy show poking fun at the differences in historical and modern sexting, instead becomes a historical insight into sex and the queer narratives that are so easily lost within history.” Edinburgh Festivals Magazine

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