Buddies in Bad Times Theatre

December 10-18, 2022
7:30PM, 2:00PM Matinee

12 Alexander St,
Toronto, ON M4Y 1B4
Canada

“Please, stay with me, ‘til after the holidays
That’s when I need you so.
Just say you’ll wait, ‘til after the holidays
Then I can let you go”

How do we reinhabit the stories that make us who we are? How do those who’ve left us continue to inhabit us? In an intimate performance weaving together music, confessionals, and personal archives, Martin Julien unmaps, through space and time, his queer upbringing as the child of a lesbian mother and gay father in mid-20th-century Toronto.

Exploding the cabaret form, The Man That Got Away grapples with the layers of our performed identities and the plurality of ways that we ‘come out.’ Family secrets, shared histories, and the musical theatre canon come together in this gesture towards a space of liberation, memory, desire, and truth.

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