I Don’t Know Why I’m Crying is a multimedia drag fantasia on epidemiological themes.
The year is 2143. Two stuffy dragged-up male historians from an absurdist future guide us through an archival video artefact: Ate Bush, a lost drag queen lip syncing through the pandemic-stricken city. Following her journey through the abandoned urban landscape, they become enticed and infuriated by her unattainable feminine mystique and are each overwhelmed by that which they cannot explain.
Combining film, drag, a killer Kate Bush catalogue and a camp sci-fi background, I Don’t Know Why I’m Crying celebrates and critiques our sometimes misguided, sometimes fruitful, but always insatiable impulse to make meaning of the circumstances we face.
Cast
AK Golding as Gregor
Jude Mack as Olifer
Ate Bush as herself
Creative
Director – Adelaide Waldrop
Dramaturgy – Brendan Macdonald
Stage Manager on Book – Grace Hans
Sound Design – Anna Short
Video Design – Nima Shahmalekpur
“Keep up the good work producing cutting-edge theatre for everyone in London”
Councillor Jonathan Simpson, 29 January 2018
