Oraculum

I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect from Oraculum at Buddies in Bad Times.  I kew it featured a drag act and fortune telling but that was about it.  On one level it’s a show about the relationship between a straight bimbo PR consultant; Kayleigh, and her gay male twink friend; Matt, who is hustling a product line called Gape.  She’s about to get married and he’s doing all he can to undermine it including impersonating the on-line fortune teller she continually consults.

Oraculum-02_photo of Pythia (Christos Darlasis) and Denim (Emerson Sanderson) by Jeremy Mimnagh_set, projection, and lighting design by Cosette Ettie Pin, costume design by Pythia

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Roberto Zucco

Bernard-Marie Koltès’ Roberto Zucco (translated by Martin Crimp) is currently playing at Buddies in Bad Times in a production directed by ted witzel. It’s a piece from the 1980s, written as Koltès was dying of AIDS and set in the mean streets of the less salubrious part of a European city, perhaps Paris.

Roberto Zucco_photo of Daniel MacIvor and Jakob Ehman by Jeremy Mimnagh_set and costume by Michelle Tracey, lighting by Logan Raju Cracknell

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