National Queer Theater
June 21-29, 2024
Times Vary
PAC NYC
251 Fulton St,
New York, NY 10007
Criminal Queerness Festival
The Survival
Written by Achiro P. Olwoch
June 22 at 8:00pm (Talkback), June 23 at 3:00pm, June 27 at 7:00pm
Achan, feeling pressure from her mother for not yet being married at 27, falls for Oyat after meeting him at a bar. Unbeknownst to Achan, Oyat is hoping she will be a surrogate for him and his boyfriend’s child. When Achan learns the truth from Oyat’s boyfriend, John, she must confront her own traditional upbringing to find love and new notions of family in modern Uganda.
She He Me
Written by Raphaël Amahl Khouri
June 21 at 8:00pm, June 22 at 2:00pm, June 23 at 8:00pm (Talkback)
She He Me is the first Arab transgender play. It follows the true stories of three Arab characters who challenge gender norms. Randa is an Algerian transwoman who is expelled under the threat of death from her homeland because of her LGBT activism there. Omar is a Jordanian gay man, who, rather than body dysphoria, suffers social dysphoria when it comes to the strict codes of masculinity imposed and expected of him by both the heterosexual and gay community around him. Rok is a Lebanese transman. His main challenge is convincing his very conservative religious mother that her daughter is actually a boy. Through humor and horror, the three characters come up against the state, society, and family, but also themselves.
Waafrika 123: A Queerly Scripted Tragic Rise to African Fantasia
Written by Nick Hadikwa Mwaluko
June 26 at 7:00pm, June 28 at 8:00pm (Talkback), June 29 at 2:00pm
On the eve of Kenya’s first democratic elections, the rural village of Luoland is brewing with tension. Although queerness ‘doesn’t exist’ in Kenya, Bobby, an American lesbian, falls in love with Awino, a trans man from the Luo tribe. To complicate matters, Awino’s father is the tribe’s Chief, who steadfastly enforces the tribe’s traditions and codes. When famine strikes, the villagers blame the queer couple, and Awino is sent away to be ‘circumcised’ by force. Will Awino and Bobby have to separate for the good of their community? Or will the village be forced to reckon with change?
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