MAY 10, 11, and 12

YOUR SEXTS ARE SHIT: OLDER BETTER LETTERS

Written and performed by Rachel Mars

With material from James Joyce, Mozart, Charles Bukowski, Marcel Proust, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gertrude Stein, Radclyffe Hall, Eleanor Roosevelt, Brother Augustine, Anonymous

★★★★

“A triumphant Show…dripping with uninhibited desire.”

• THE GUARDIAN

Rachel Mars Writer & Performer

Dinah Mullen Sound Design

Alex Fernandes Lighting Design

Lesley Ewen Additional Letter Writer/Spoken by

Wendy Hubbard and nat tarrab Dramaturgs

Lucy Jackson Producer

Touring Production Manager Helen Mugridge

Award-winning theatre maker Rachel Mars visits Austin with a gloriously rude new show that unearths the hot-as-hell letters that make sexts blush.

Before sexts there were hand-written letters. And loads of them were proper filthy. With the help of the internet, friends and two sexologists, Rachel has unearthed missives dating back centuries. Triangulating these sex and love letters of long dead artists with contemporary sexts and a meditation on the construction of the queer female body, the show is a hilarious, tender and surprising hour that asks - how do we write ourselves and for whom?

Come! Take pleasure in James Joyce’s passion for arse, find out who sneaked her gay lover into the White House, hear from Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, Mozart and bear witness to the best/worst sexts ever sent. This delightfully intimate, very funny and surprisingly moving show is an erotic archive shot through with Rachel’s personal ventures in contemporary Queer kink.

Originally piloted at Camden People’s Theatre, and supported by The Yard Theatre.

With big thanks to: Gemma Curtis, Melanie Brown, Rebecca Atkinson-Lord, Jana Funke, Lena Wanggren, Scott Sheppard