TESTO

Wet Mess (UK)

Image description: A trans-masculine drag artist stands on a dark stage, holding an LED-sign where the word "now" glows red. Their bald head is turned in profile, with a checkerboard smile painted across their face. They wear a billowing white coat made of luxuriously gauzy material, which hangs open, exposing a flat, muscular chest.
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Performance Works
  • Sat Feb 7 8PM
  • Sun Feb 8 2PM
Price $39/$59
Runtime 60min
Accessibility
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Presented with

  • Here And Now
  • the frank theater

Mess // Desire // Becoming

TESTO celebrates transitions, testosterone and the edges of drag–a chaotic, heartfelt, and hilariously unhinged deep dive into the mess of becoming. Here, performance and reality blur until what’s made-up somehow feels truer than truth. Expect moustache meals, dykey desires, and a choreography of guttural sexuality that pinches at the dull flesh of everyday life until it sparkles. At once absurd and sincere, TESTO finds the magical in the mundane—the moment when laughter curdles into revelation, and fantasy becomes flesh. It’s awkward, erotic, disarming, and deeply human: a love letter to transition, embodiment, and all our leaking edges.

Artist Wet Mess will also be hosting a workshop, Drag & Devising, on February 10. Learn more and register here.

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Artist Bio

Wet Mess

UK

Wet Mess is a wet mess, horny for your confusion. Let it all out and guess again at the insecure balding white man/pussy prince/alien baby. Have a lollygag, think about your fantasy flesh suits, call me sweet prince, and remember Roger in a robe. Choose to make some silly campy decisions, with all the hairy thems and dykey men. All I really wanna do is strip for the stripper and drive her home with the dogs.

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Venue

Performance Works

1218 Cartwright Street, Granville Island, Vancouver

Content Advisory

Flashing lights, haze

Nudity, references to transphobia, sexually explicit content

Showtimes & Tickets

Standard: $39 // Generous: $59

Sat Feb 7 8PM
ASL-Interpretation; Audio Description
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Sold Out
Sun Feb 8 2PM
Sold Out
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Performance Notes Standard Generous
Sat Feb 7 8PM ASL-Interpretation; Audio Description Sold Out Sold Out
Sun Feb 8 2PM Sold Out Sold Out

If you have the financial means, consider choosing the Generous price option. Learn more about Choose-Your-Rate pricing.

Accessibility

Icon signalling a performance with signed interpretation

ASL-interpretation on Feb 7

Icon signalling a performance suitable for the blind or partially sighted

Audio Description on Feb 7

Contact access@pushfestival.ca to reserve seating with best view of the interpreter, or to reserve headsets for audio description.

Credits

Creator Wet Mess Credits Production Lucia Fortune-Ely, Metal & Water Collaborator & Production Coordinator Miz Barber Costume Design Lambdog1066 Sound Design Baby Set Design Ruta Irbīte Lighting Design Joshie Harriette Dramaturg Travis Alabanza

Interviewees/Inspirations Trans Punk Elder, Baby, Angel, Shrek666, Santi Sorrenti Danni Spooner, Sue Maclaine, Svar Simpson, Felix Mufti Ben Vyle, Envy the Queen, Grandma Mess

Thanks to Danni Spooner, Duffy, Eve Stainton, Ursula Martinez Anthony Simpson-Pike, Jay Miller, Ged, Raze Collective Poster

Design Josh Quinton Trailer Kunstraum Productions, Stefan Venturi Logo Design Bora Audio Description Adedamola Bajomo PR Joy Parkinson

Commissioned by The Yard Theatre, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge Junction. Supported by Arts Council England and Here & Now.

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