Get a sneak peek at John Jarboe's Rose: You Are Who You Eat—billed as a "true story of gender cannibalism, set to music"—in the video clip above. The heartfelt and humorous tribute to Jarboe's twin consumed in womb will play La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club's The Downstairs January 10–20, 2024. 

Jarboe's musical shrine to her consumed twin, named Rose, welcomes audiences into a feast of gender through song, storytelling, and wordplay. The work features original music written in collaboration with Emily Bate, Daniel de Jesús, Pax Ressler, and Be Steadwell, an all-queer composer team. MK Tuomanen directs.

“As queer folx, however we identify, we are always in dynamic tension between being who we are authentically and the tyranny of respectability: fitting in by making ourselves more palatable, more recognizable to a cis-het society...I don’t pass. I don’t fit into a clean, commercialized narrative of transition. What I love about the story of Rose, is that it is unmistakably disrespectful, pretty tasteless, and entirely me," said Jarboe in a statement.

Rose: You Are Who You Eat arrives in New York as part of the show’s co-world premiere with Woolly Mammoth, CulturalDC, and FringeArts.

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