We are very bad queers.
Some of us are afraid of dancing. Some of us don’t like ABBA. Some of us are old and out of fashion. Some of us just don’t get drag. Some of us are too femme. Some of us are too serious. Some of us have never been in fashion. Some of us really don’t 'love the nightlife'.
HOMO FOMO is a show exploring the rules that dictate ‘how to be a queer person’ and the ways they become fixed over time through repetition. It’s about nightclubs, which are more complex than usual representations of glitter, mirror balls and sweaty bodies suggest. We want to know: what do these rules do and what happens if you break them?
HOMO FOMO draws on intergenerational queer experiences to ask what it means to be part of ‘the queer community’ today, or indeed to feel that you are missing out on it.
LEAD CREATIVES
CONCEPT
Meta Cohen
DIRECTOR, DRAMATURG, CO-CREATOR
Alyson Campbell
COMPOSER, DRAMATURG, CO-CREATOR
Meta Cohen
WRITERS, CO-CREATORS
İbrahim Halaçoğlu and Peta Murray
PERFORMERS, CO-CREATORS
Nikki Viveca, James Wardlaw, Hayley Edwards, Yuchen Wang, Kerith Manderson-Galvin
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Emma Lockhart-Wilson
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We are particularly keen to hear from members of the LGBTQIA+ community as part of the making process of this piece.
Questionnaire closes midnight 28th May 2024 AEST.
She Writes Residency
Theatre Works
Melbourne, 2022-23
She Writes is a new writing and performance program for emerging or mid-career female-identifying playwrights. This program offers participating writers support networks and professional development to generate the next wave of unique performance writing, ready for when stages become live again.
Meta has been a resident dramaturg in the program since 2020.
Further projects to be announced soon!